It is amazing what you can do with a small nuclear generator, a laser or a rail gun, and a number of space planes that can be put into space in a matter of hours. Do you think that there was a reason why DOD is paying to have SpaceX to turn around their rockets in hours?
Something like this would be VERY useful to a nation like China to grab on the way up. Hopefully, their was active sonor going around to make sure that nobody did that.
a plan. Let me point out that Bolden and Obama have said all along that the W moon plan is dead along with CONstellation. They have not said that we are not going to the moon.
CONstellation was a disaster in the making. It would count on ONE arch to get us to the moon and loads of money to keep us on the moon. We have already seen massive shutoffs and stumble over and over in NASA's goals. For starters. Nixon killed Apollo and then he started the shuttled by underfunded it. As such, it got off the ground late. What was the consequence of that? We lost SKYLAB. Skylab was to be our ISS that the shuttle docked to. Because Nixon kept cutting Shuttle funding, it was late to the game. Too late. We lost skylab, and it would be another 20 years before we had our lab in the sky.
When Challenger was lost, we were grounded for two years while we sorted it out.
When Columba was lost, we were grounded for two years while we sorted it out. again. We put the ISS on hold during that time.
Now, W and the neo-con congress killed the shuttle, and underfunded the CONstellation. Where are we today? Well, we are about to lose the shuttle and up to two years of not launching humans.
So what is wrong with this pix? We would do the SAME THING had we continued with CONstellation. Instead, with the approach of building multiple launchers AND private space, we will gain the ability to NEVER lose space access again. We also gain having private money going into this. L-Mart, Boeing, ULA, USA, etc have all been nothing but bleeders of money. Now, we are going to ask them to put it on the line and invest in space. We see that already in SpaceX. And Bigelow has absolutely been doing that.
IF America invests into the private space, we can get to the moon BEFORE 2020. WIth CONstellation, we would not be there before 2025, and more likely 2030.
For the last 6 years, They have turned out one to three new nuclear submarines EACH YEAR (boomers and attacks). They have put their boomers into the Indian ocean and we have spotted a boomer in the Gulf of Mexico and on a different time off of DC. In fact, it appears that they cutting deals with Venezuela to have their navy tendered there (and idiot W/Cheney moved a number of our nuke systems to Texas, rather than leave them in the Dakotas).
Their 'civilian' space program is operated by their Military and the RD that is done there is fed to the military. In particular, they are acknowledging that they will have MULTIPLE instance of their space stations in space over the course of this next decade. They have already said that one will be 'civilian' (as in allowing others on it), while all the other instances will be purely military.
They are building up troops on the India border,
Helping Burma put in a nuclear reactor that is about 20x bigger than what is needed for the declared medical reactor;
They are about to start producing new aircraft carriers. At first it appeared that they would do diesel ones (which are pretty small), but apparently they have changed course and are now doing a nuclear one.
They have done anti-sat.
We know that they have built up their airplane lines to support both commercial and military lines.
They are building up not just their military systems, but they are making their commercial work support the military as well. And ever time that they have the commercial lines in place, they always start split production.
China is already in a MASSIVE expansion phase. More massive than Germany was in 1933 until 37, and America in 1938 until 1940.
That of course, is impossible for security to know in ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. So instead, you are left with trying to minimize the possibility of somebody being able to be blackmailed and then check periodically for signs of interesting cash issues. And if you check, blackmail is rarely used any more. Why? Not for for lack of trying by say a foreign spy agency, such as the Chinese. It is thought that the MSS has used blackmail where it can, such as in Poland. ANd as I spoke of earlier, there is the loyalty issue. For example many of the illegals that come to the states, have ZERO loyalty to our nation. Instead, many hate America and have little issue helping some like China. Do not get me wrong. Many are very thankful for the opportunities provided to them. But with an easy blackmail attempt, combined with loads of money, and you have the making of an easy to hide transmitter by a construction worker, or even a maid.
Of course, that is the west reporting honestly, while most of the other countries do not. For example, it is KNOWN that China has no less than 2-3 x more spending going on then what is reported. Likewise, a million in China is not == to a million in America. That is because outside of general manufacturing, China is a COMMAND ECONOMY. Yes, the west esp. America has a lot of spending. But the truth is, so are the other countries.
That is not accurate. Al Qaeda has stated that they have the RIGHT to set up sharia gov. in any country that they see fit. What they are opposed to, is the west (or any 'infidel' controlled gov) interfering in their 'RIGHT' to do this unilaterally. As such, the ONLY way to get AQ to stop, is wipe them out, or allow them to set up govs. in any country that they feel it is ok. And AQ has said that Taliban was not only set-up correctly, but ran correctly. And how did Taliban gain control of Afghanistan? Was it voted in?
Yeah, exactly.
China, Burma, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Part of Somalia, Al Qaeda, etc. all agree with you. And they will happily pay you money to keep singing that song.
Not a security risk, but it closes one door to determining if you are one. Look, I do not believe in lie detectors. HOWEVER, majority of ppl do. As such, they get nervous on some things and not on others. What the security interview is about is to see how much of the stuff lines up with what others say about you. Security in the classified world is about trying to minimize having somebody spread information, having somebody who wants to sell the info, AND having them be able to be blackmailed. All 3 of those things are potential holes in any gov. work.
They ask questions like Sex orientation but that is under Lie detector. What is REALLY going on, is they are going to find out if somebody is a liar. The issue is not that a scientist is gay. It is, is a scientist gay and trying to hide it. If so, then it is point of entry by CHinese. All they have to do is send somebody to screw that person, take pix, and then blackmail into getting information.
That is like America using illegal's to build high security buildings now. As such, it is easy for a Chinese spy to approach the illegal and tell them that they will report them elsewhere, UNLESS that person plants bugs in the building. If they do, then the spy will pay them large sums of money. SO, what does somebody that has ZERO loyality to our nation (think along the lines of a CEO style loyality), is offered a choice of going to jail or being large sums of money do? You KNOW what they will.
And yet, we prohibit checks for illegals because we are afraid of hurting their feelings, or losing votes. TOTAL BS.
Allow those that are being laid off to throw together some companies and then have them bid on previous held IBM jobs. Since the jobs are being exported to nations that rig their money against the US, then if IBM is less than 1/rate of whatever the new companies bid, then IBM gets it. OTHERWISE, the lowest bidder amongst the start-ups get it.
Sam is cutting lose some great ppl with lots of knowledge and ideas. Lets take advantage of them. OTH, IBM can continue support regimes like 1940 Germany and 2009 China.
Odd. At Jeppesen, I was told that ALL of the jeppesen employees belonged to a union (and this was RD, software engineers, etc). In fact, the Germans told me that everybody but CEO are union.
Germany is pretty much one large union. And you would claim that Germany is made up of Lazy, corrupt ppl and it is an economic failure? Yeah. Right. Well, I certain understand why you went AC.
Stop with the federal and state contract with IBM. And when they give up the data, then it is time for contracts to be tied to the nations monetary difference if the nation fixes their money. In particular, since a lot of IBM hardware is made in China, then we should determine the true difference on their money, and then their contracts should be adjusted accordingly. So, if it is determined that money should be 1 to 1 with Yuan to Dollar, rather than the currently fixed 7 to 1, then the contract needs to be less 1/7 of the bottom of another contract to win.
To keep their prices high, the AMA has prevented new med schools from being done. The last one was back in the 70's. So, part of the reason why docs get paid so much is that there is not enough of them. What is needed is for feds and states to say enough of this, come up with another standards groups, and start developing new med schools. I have written several congressmen and have suggested adding a med school at Colo State. Then have cut rate med school there, HOWEVER, the docs would only work in Colorado and would only do General lines (general practice, Peds, Ob/Gyn, Gen. Surgery, etc). Ideally, set up a state malpractice insurance for these docs, in which patients that use them would have to go through a different approach for suing. Finally, they would accept a different line of pay since they would not have the high med schools costs (i.e. pay up front, rather than down the road).
Now, insurances want to make cuts so they will outsource the docs, but not their expensive management. What a racket.
Why not allow the markets to compete on this? Offer up limited time subsides/tax breaks JUST for storage, but without specifying what type. The reason for doing this is that we NEED energy storage now. It would allow AE to really thrive, but would also allow us to avoid building new coal plants, though it would mean that coal plants would run more.
Actually, our home building depends on where you live.
The east coast now tends to bricks.
Florida is moving quickly to Block and Concrete (well the cheap cheap florida builders are still doing stick).
The midwest is assorted.
The west tends towards stick, with faux brick, block on it.
The problem with AE is not AE. It is the politics behind it. We had W and the neo-cons pushed Ethanol from Corn. Why? Votes. He did just in front of the elections.
The dems have picked Wind and Solar PV as being the 2 big winners, yet neither is really all that good. Solar PV will remain the highest costs for at least 1-2 decades to come. Neither are baseload power.
Right now, Ethanol receives more than 50% of all the money that flows into AE. Its subsidy is actually bigger than the R&D, tax breaks, AND subsidies for all the rest of the AE power. And Ethanol still has a lot of money going into its R&D.
In addition, ALL OF AE (including ethanol) receives less than Coal, Oil, Natural gas OR Nuclear subsidies. IOW, it is the sucking hind tit. That needs to change.
The easy answer is increase R&D to AE, esp. items not currently being done. That esp. includes geo-thermal and Solar Thermal. These two are way behind. Probably the most important one is to change the subsidies. They are way out of line. They need to be simplified to allow and encourage new techs. Here is what I have been pushing with 2 congressmen:
A Tax break/subsidy for clean energy production (does not include construction). That is one that does not pollute with CO2 emissions (and ideally will look at mercury as well).
A Tax break/subsidy for renewable energy.
A Tax break/subsidy for renewable energy being base load power.
A Tax break/subsidy for energy storage. This would enable us to work more with AE, help with demand-supply issues, and ideally would be isolated to mini-grids so that when incoming power drops (black-out, disaster, etc), then this can handle it for some time.
We also need this to be LIMITED TIME, as in 10-20 years, NO LONGER. The idea is to get us off of Fossil fuel dependencies, diversify our energy matrix, drop our pollution, remove our dependencies on imports (America imports natural gas, coal, fossil fuel).
The above would obviously remove the subsidies that we have in place for fossil fuel (and we have a LOT which skews the market badly; Coal is actually the most heavily subsidized). And it would encourage NEW techs to come in. This approach would encourage the coal and natural gas production to add Solar Thermal in most places in America (it makes ZERO sense in the northwest, and possibly northeast).
The storage would encourage not just this one, but thermal systems. To be honest, the stored air is actually EXPENSIVE. A better one is stored heat. Easier to make smaller, on the order of MW, and can be done everywhere.
One last place that America (hopefully the west) really needs to consider is building HVAC. They really should subsidize or better yet, tax breaks for moving away from Fossil Fuel heat/General AC over to geo-thermal heat pumps, Solar, etc. combined with better insulated homes. One useful idea is to have if configured so that businesses have incentives to offer these as services to homes. For example, business offers insulation and geo-thermal heat pump to house and then gets the monthly savings. When house is sold, the system is paid off. IOW, it should be treated as primary loan separate from the house loan. That way if building forecloses, then these companies will not be screwed.
One last idea for a tax break
EVERYONE defines zygote as human life but you
I do not. Right there, that proved that you lie.
Science does not. Ever read an embryology book?
That is more proof that your statement is positively false and you are a liar.
We are singing many of the same tunes, but the illegals will actually prevent the changes needed. Look, I could tell you that I have an interesting idea on how to lower the costs of doing farming. Corn; wheat, etc are all too expensive. The problem is that to automate this will cost money to put in. interestingly, it will after 10 years save enough energy that it paid for itself. It allows full automation as well as uses electricity. Yet, there is no sense bringing it out. Why? Because the idea can not compete against illegals. Instead, I have to wait for NASA to really be shooting for the moon. Then this will be of interest to them. The idea can be also be used for strip mining, which we will need for various minerals on the moon as well as mars. The amazing part is, that we still can not compete internationally, because the illegals here, are making more money then in say Brazil (which is why there are here in the first place). Of course, brazil, as well as most of Latin America, cracks down on illegals.
That is why I say that illegals destroy our economy.
Oh, I DO blame the corporations for our current situation. The problem is that the exec looked at short term gains for their own good. However, that does not change the situation.
Read this.
We need this ID card. We also need to make changes to our corporations. BTW, I do not object to legal immigrants. They provide a life blood for America. But illegal immigrants are a whole different issue.
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It is amazing what you can do with a small nuclear generator, a laser or a rail gun, and a number of space planes that can be put into space in a matter of hours. Do you think that there was a reason why DOD is paying to have SpaceX to turn around their rockets in hours?
Something like this would be VERY useful to a nation like China to grab on the way up. Hopefully, their was active sonor going around to make sure that nobody did that.
a plan. Let me point out that Bolden and Obama have said all along that the W moon plan is dead along with CONstellation. They have not said that we are not going to the moon.
CONstellation was a disaster in the making. It would count on ONE arch to get us to the moon and loads of money to keep us on the moon. We have already seen massive shutoffs and stumble over and over in NASA's goals. For starters. Nixon killed Apollo and then he started the shuttled by underfunded it. As such, it got off the ground late. What was the consequence of that? We lost SKYLAB. Skylab was to be our ISS that the shuttle docked to. Because Nixon kept cutting Shuttle funding, it was late to the game. Too late. We lost skylab, and it would be another 20 years before we had our lab in the sky.
When Challenger was lost, we were grounded for two years while we sorted it out.
When Columba was lost, we were grounded for two years while we sorted it out. again. We put the ISS on hold during that time.
Now, W and the neo-con congress killed the shuttle, and underfunded the CONstellation. Where are we today? Well, we are about to lose the shuttle and up to two years of not launching humans.
So what is wrong with this pix? We would do the SAME THING had we continued with CONstellation. Instead, with the approach of building multiple launchers AND private space, we will gain the ability to NEVER lose space access again. We also gain having private money going into this. L-Mart, Boeing, ULA, USA, etc have all been nothing but bleeders of money. Now, we are going to ask them to put it on the line and invest in space. We see that already in SpaceX. And Bigelow has absolutely been doing that. IF America invests into the private space, we can get to the moon BEFORE 2020. WIth CONstellation, we would not be there before 2025, and more likely 2030.
They are building up not just their military systems, but they are making their commercial work support the military as well. And ever time that they have the commercial lines in place, they always start split production. China is already in a MASSIVE expansion phase. More massive than Germany was in 1933 until 37, and America in 1938 until 1940.
That of course, is impossible for security to know in ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. So instead, you are left with trying to minimize the possibility of somebody being able to be blackmailed and then check periodically for signs of interesting cash issues. And if you check, blackmail is rarely used any more. Why? Not for for lack of trying by say a foreign spy agency, such as the Chinese. It is thought that the MSS has used blackmail where it can, such as in Poland. ANd as I spoke of earlier, there is the loyalty issue. For example many of the illegals that come to the states, have ZERO loyalty to our nation. Instead, many hate America and have little issue helping some like China. Do not get me wrong. Many are very thankful for the opportunities provided to them. But with an easy blackmail attempt, combined with loads of money, and you have the making of an easy to hide transmitter by a construction worker, or even a maid.
Of course, that is the west reporting honestly, while most of the other countries do not. For example, it is KNOWN that China has no less than 2-3 x more spending going on then what is reported. Likewise, a million in China is not == to a million in America. That is because outside of general manufacturing, China is a COMMAND ECONOMY. Yes, the west esp. America has a lot of spending. But the truth is, so are the other countries.
That is not accurate. Al Qaeda has stated that they have the RIGHT to set up sharia gov. in any country that they see fit. What they are opposed to, is the west (or any 'infidel' controlled gov) interfering in their 'RIGHT' to do this unilaterally. As such, the ONLY way to get AQ to stop, is wipe them out, or allow them to set up govs. in any country that they feel it is ok. And AQ has said that Taliban was not only set-up correctly, but ran correctly. And how did Taliban gain control of Afghanistan? Was it voted in? Yeah, exactly.
China, Burma, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Part of Somalia, Al Qaeda, etc. all agree with you. And they will happily pay you money to keep singing that song.
Not a security risk, but it closes one door to determining if you are one. Look, I do not believe in lie detectors. HOWEVER, majority of ppl do. As such, they get nervous on some things and not on others. What the security interview is about is to see how much of the stuff lines up with what others say about you. Security in the classified world is about trying to minimize having somebody spread information, having somebody who wants to sell the info, AND having them be able to be blackmailed. All 3 of those things are potential holes in any gov. work.
They ask questions like Sex orientation but that is under Lie detector. What is REALLY going on, is they are going to find out if somebody is a liar. The issue is not that a scientist is gay. It is, is a scientist gay and trying to hide it. If so, then it is point of entry by CHinese. All they have to do is send somebody to screw that person, take pix, and then blackmail into getting information. That is like America using illegal's to build high security buildings now. As such, it is easy for a Chinese spy to approach the illegal and tell them that they will report them elsewhere, UNLESS that person plants bugs in the building. If they do, then the spy will pay them large sums of money. SO, what does somebody that has ZERO loyality to our nation (think along the lines of a CEO style loyality), is offered a choice of going to jail or being large sums of money do? You KNOW what they will. And yet, we prohibit checks for illegals because we are afraid of hurting their feelings, or losing votes. TOTAL BS.
Allow those that are being laid off to throw together some companies and then have them bid on previous held IBM jobs. Since the jobs are being exported to nations that rig their money against the US, then if IBM is less than 1/rate of whatever the new companies bid, then IBM gets it. OTHERWISE, the lowest bidder amongst the start-ups get it.
Sam is cutting lose some great ppl with lots of knowledge and ideas. Lets take advantage of them. OTH, IBM can continue support regimes like 1940 Germany and 2009 China.
Odd. At Jeppesen, I was told that ALL of the jeppesen employees belonged to a union (and this was RD, software engineers, etc). In fact, the Germans told me that everybody but CEO are union.
Germany is pretty much one large union. And you would claim that Germany is made up of Lazy, corrupt ppl and it is an economic failure? Yeah. Right. Well, I certain understand why you went AC.
Stop with the federal and state contract with IBM. And when they give up the data, then it is time for contracts to be tied to the nations monetary difference if the nation fixes their money. In particular, since a lot of IBM hardware is made in China, then we should determine the true difference on their money, and then their contracts should be adjusted accordingly. So, if it is determined that money should be 1 to 1 with Yuan to Dollar, rather than the currently fixed 7 to 1, then the contract needs to be less 1/7 of the bottom of another contract to win.
To keep their prices high, the AMA has prevented new med schools from being done. The last one was back in the 70's. So, part of the reason why docs get paid so much is that there is not enough of them. What is needed is for feds and states to say enough of this, come up with another standards groups, and start developing new med schools. I have written several congressmen and have suggested adding a med school at Colo State. Then have cut rate med school there, HOWEVER, the docs would only work in Colorado and would only do General lines (general practice, Peds, Ob/Gyn, Gen. Surgery, etc). Ideally, set up a state malpractice insurance for these docs, in which patients that use them would have to go through a different approach for suing. Finally, they would accept a different line of pay since they would not have the high med schools costs (i.e. pay up front, rather than down the road).
Now, insurances want to make cuts so they will outsource the docs, but not their expensive management. What a racket.
Why not allow the markets to compete on this? Offer up limited time subsides/tax breaks JUST for storage, but without specifying what type. The reason for doing this is that we NEED energy storage now. It would allow AE to really thrive, but would also allow us to avoid building new coal plants, though it would mean that coal plants would run more.
Actually, our home building depends on where you live. The east coast now tends to bricks.
Florida is moving quickly to Block and Concrete (well the cheap cheap florida builders are still doing stick).
The midwest is assorted.
The west tends towards stick, with faux brick, block on it.
The dems have picked Wind and Solar PV as being the 2 big winners, yet neither is really all that good. Solar PV will remain the highest costs for at least 1-2 decades to come. Neither are baseload power.
Right now, Ethanol receives more than 50% of all the money that flows into AE. Its subsidy is actually bigger than the R&D, tax breaks, AND subsidies for all the rest of the AE power. And Ethanol still has a lot of money going into its R&D.
In addition, ALL OF AE (including ethanol) receives less than Coal, Oil, Natural gas OR Nuclear subsidies. IOW, it is the sucking hind tit. That needs to change.
The easy answer is increase R&D to AE, esp. items not currently being done. That esp. includes geo-thermal and Solar Thermal. These two are way behind. Probably the most important one is to change the subsidies. They are way out of line. They need to be simplified to allow and encourage new techs. Here is what I have been pushing with 2 congressmen:
We also need this to be LIMITED TIME, as in 10-20 years, NO LONGER. The idea is to get us off of Fossil fuel dependencies, diversify our energy matrix, drop our pollution, remove our dependencies on imports (America imports natural gas, coal, fossil fuel).
The above would obviously remove the subsidies that we have in place for fossil fuel (and we have a LOT which skews the market badly; Coal is actually the most heavily subsidized). And it would encourage NEW techs to come in. This approach would encourage the coal and natural gas production to add Solar Thermal in most places in America (it makes ZERO sense in the northwest, and possibly northeast).
The storage would encourage not just this one, but thermal systems. To be honest, the stored air is actually EXPENSIVE. A better one is stored heat. Easier to make smaller, on the order of MW, and can be done everywhere.
One last place that America (hopefully the west) really needs to consider is building HVAC. They really should subsidize or better yet, tax breaks for moving away from Fossil Fuel heat/General AC over to geo-thermal heat pumps, Solar, etc. combined with better insulated homes. One useful idea is to have if configured so that businesses have incentives to offer these as services to homes. For example, business offers insulation and geo-thermal heat pump to house and then gets the monthly savings. When house is sold, the system is paid off. IOW, it should be treated as primary loan separate from the house loan. That way if building forecloses, then these companies will not be screwed. One last idea for a tax break
Really? What hugely successful company was he handed that was not in ground did he run into the ground?
EVERYONE defines zygote as human life but you
I do not. Right there, that proved that you lie. Science does not. Ever read an embryology book? That is more proof that your statement is positively false and you are a liar.
It is murder only if you are a living breathing person, or were at one time. And to say otherwise is horrible twisted logic.
Most are. It is called a Miscarriage.
Yes, HTC is Taiwanese, BUT, I saw elsewhere that the phones was made in Mainland China.
We are singing many of the same tunes, but the illegals will actually prevent the changes needed. Look, I could tell you that I have an interesting idea on how to lower the costs of doing farming. Corn; wheat, etc are all too expensive. The problem is that to automate this will cost money to put in. interestingly, it will after 10 years save enough energy that it paid for itself. It allows full automation as well as uses electricity. Yet, there is no sense bringing it out. Why? Because the idea can not compete against illegals. Instead, I have to wait for NASA to really be shooting for the moon. Then this will be of interest to them. The idea can be also be used for strip mining, which we will need for various minerals on the moon as well as mars. The amazing part is, that we still can not compete internationally, because the illegals here, are making more money then in say Brazil (which is why there are here in the first place). Of course, brazil, as well as most of Latin America, cracks down on illegals.
That is why I say that illegals destroy our economy.
Oh, I DO blame the corporations for our current situation. The problem is that the exec looked at short term gains for their own good. However, that does not change the situation. Read this.
We need this ID card. We also need to make changes to our corporations. BTW, I do not object to legal immigrants. They provide a life blood for America. But illegal immigrants are a whole different issue.