Depending on the bandwidth, approaches, distance, etc, the collectors can be small. If distance is the real issues, then build a specialized UAVs that has a large collector that can then send it to multiple points, in a different means.
The funny thing is that for the last 50 years, I kept hearing that it was off by 10 years. Now, that the whole planet is involved, it will take 40 years. What do you think is the chance that it will not work?
My bet is that it will be some other means of doing it.
If we remain in Afghanistan to stop AQ, then getting supplies into there is hard. A big part of this is fuel for electric power. This is the ideal situation for a small 10-50 MW space generator to beam it into bases, esp. forward bases. We can cut the power to the base, if it is taken. In addition, it prevents fuel from being used as a weapon. We could easily have a small version available within 2 years.
In addition, this same idea could be used in the US and other locations to beam 10 MWs into disaster locations. The ability to bring in say 1 MW into multiple locations within 1 hour would make a HUGE difference in say hurricane, earthquake, or even another 9/11.
The simple fact is, that a dome may not only be cheaper, but provide the large mall atmosphere that so many ppl want. Personally, I wish that several areas would dome up and then perhaps we would see larger population density in these locations. In addition, ppl will work towards keeping their area clean.
Now, you are putting words in my mouth. I did not say to deny ANYONE treatment. I said that if they do not have insurance or public option, then ICE should be called in. IOW, the person is treated and their status checked at the same time. If illegal, then arrested and deported. That encourages ALL illegals to have their own insurance.
Yup, I misspelled it. Look through many of my postings and you will find others, since I keep spell checker off.
What I find interesting is that in another posting of yours, you linked to a dictionary def. of America and it out and out said that America referred to USA. IOW, you really are just an asshole looking to troll.
As to getting the doctorate, I have known pleny of PhD's along the way. A number of them are pretty worthless. Just followed the program. IOW, not that impressive to me (or others in the know).
Which is why from the 70's until 2000, I voted either indi, or Libertarian. In 2000, I would have voted for Gore (gf was sick) since I knew that W would be a total disaster for America. In 2004, I held my nose and voted kerry (one notch above W), and in 2008, voted for Obama because of Palin (McCain is not capable of the stress of the job; by now, Palin would have been president). I will probably return to Libertarian on the next election.
So, what you are saying is that those in Canada, Australia, India, UK, and America really have no fucking clue about the meaning of our language, while you, a none-native speaker (and an obviously ignorant one), does?
What I find interesting is that when I travel to Germany (Frankfurt and Neu-Isenburg) that old co-workers refer to USA as America as well.
Offhand, I would say that you are simply an asshole with a chip on your shoulder and nothing else up there.
On what basis are you concluding that? A quick look suggests that a good estimate of the poor (by official poverty line) in the US is 39 million, while the illegal immigrant population may be something around 11 million. That says that at the most about a quarter of the poor are illegal immigrants, and that's assuming that all illegal immigrants are poor (which isn't strictly true, though I don't know how far off it is). In any case, the bill bars illegal immigrants [factcheck.org] from getting aid in buying health insurance, although it remains to be seen how that would be enforced.
First, that poverty line INCLUDES ALL PPL LIVING HERE. That means citizens, legal immigrants and illegal aliens. Second, most of the #s for illegals in the states show 15-30 million, not the low 11 million that you claim.
Second, we have a law that says that no alcohol will be served to 21 and under. BUT, what happens if all the bars are told to NOT check IDs. That is the same situation that is happening. When you can not check the legal status of a person, then the law is worthless (and the dems know that). All that is required is to simply require hospitals to call in ICE for every person that does not have insurance or public options, and require a legality check on ppl signing up for public options, but the dems fought that (i did notice that pubs have not pushed it either; IMHO, they are worse then dems since they claim to be against illegals, while dems claim to love them).
ANY reform on medical costs is worth it. several OB-GYN and and an anesthesiologist that I know (none with any previous issues) are paying over 100K/year for malpractice. That is outrageous.
I can see you point on the last one, except that all who are fighting against this bill are the same idiots that will fight against the lowering of the drugs costs. IOW, it should not change the situation.
Keep in mind that the Senate is not likely to pass this monster. Personally, I do not think that it should be passed, unless we really lower medical costs. And nothing in this does.
You can start by explaining how a multi-trillion dollar government program is going to make things better.
What the invasions and occupations are now programs? Because they are the ONLY thing that was multiple trillions. The health program will be less than 1 trillion over a decade. Now, I have major issues with it, but out and out lying about it solves nothing and will only change the mind of idiots.
The 2009 Mexican flu has a much higher mortality rate than does the normal human flu. That flu includes elements of swine, avian, and regular human flue. In addition, what nasty side effects on the vaccine are you referring to? None have died from it; No pregnancy loses; etc. All that is going on is that idiots like Glen Beck and Fox news are screaming that their are issues with vaccines, while ignoring facts.
The interesting thing is that it really will fix nothing. All this did was offer up some competition to Insurance (not necessarily a bad thing), but will fund the indigent, which is mostly Illegal aliens here.
What is really sad is that it had NOTHING TO LOWER COSTS. We are in need of tort reform (how much money is paid out for lawsuits); costs of the docs eduction; costs of the drugs; costs of the hospital; etc.
What is amazing is that the neo-cons passed a monster drug bill to help buy old votes. Part of it required the feds to pay TOP DOLLARS for the drugs. Here is the American gov who passed a bill that would make the US federal gov the single largest buyers of drugs in the world, and the neo-cons forbid negotiations for LOWEST PRICE. This is expected to costs something like 400 BILLION dollars, instead of 50 BILLION over the ten years that it was looked at. This is a nice and easy 350 billion dollars to be save. So, did the dems include that in this bill? Nope. They are leaving us at paying the TOP DOLLARS for this.
I swear, The only thing worse than a GD democrat is an elected republican. The republicans are about pure greed and corrupt. The dems are stupid. America is in serious trouble.
When I was a kid back in the 60's, when the police found a drunk driver (DRUNK, not just happy, or DWI), they would take the keys and then drive the offender home. Likewise, speeding tickets were for speeding (as 10-20 mph over). At that time, nearly all the ppl that I knew respected police and did not try to fight with them. My next door neighbor is a cop like that. Great attitude and rolls with the punches so to speak. I guess that is why he handles gangs in Denver.
OTH, I think that far too many assholes have become police. Sadly.
Since he did not take money for this. It sounds like he was trying to prove something. However, even without math AND the fact that the time interval was so long (30 seconds is a long time), it should be obvious that he was clearly speeding. If average is 45 and he started from a stop, then at some point he was going much faster than 45.
OTH, if these units get smart, do 5 (possibly 10) second intervals (still possible to speed a bit and slow down, but not that much), then it would be worthwhile using them to prove that radar is wrong. OTH, I suspect that there will be VERY few times where they differ.
What? You get tickets for doing 3 over a limit? Give me a break. The ONLY way that a cop is going to do that is if they are targeting you, or if it is in a school zone (and I doubt even that). Nearly all states give you 5 to 10 over (colorado gives 10; Seattle and portland gave 10; Atlanta gave 15-20 depending on where you were driving; San Jose gave 10).
No, they do not. The president puts forward the budget that he wants and then congress goes through and adjusts and passes a budget. Then the president signs off. Basically, it was W that said that he wanted NASA to be undercut. Since neo-cons controlled congress until 2 years and nobody controlled it for the last 2 years, I would said that the 7 years of underfunding belongs to W and the neo-cons( You need to start looking in the mirror and not just passing it by).
The question remains, what will Obama and the dems do.
The thought is that it will enable them to allow say 1/2 to 2/3 to get by quickly, and then focus resources on the smaller group. No doubt that there will be false positives, but, OTH, if you focus more resources on these, then you can process ppl faster.
I would be far more concerned about false negatives. I suspect that a terrorists who has already made up their mind to die is probably not quite as fearful. The true religious fanatics that have convinced themselves that either 72 virgins or Jesus or virgin mary or whatever awaits them in heaven is the one that will likely NOT be afraid. They are focused on a false end goal, so do not care about the means to it (though I am still trying to figure out what female muslims get; 72 virgin males? What a joke).
These are ppl that have already made up their mind of HOW things will happen. If they know that they are going to die, they have already discarded the fear. As such, it is possible that these ppl will get by. OTH, if they are hoping to get out of it alive, then yeah, fear will be a big factor.
They would borrow from Google (as opposed to out and out stealing from small companies). In particular, MS grips all the time about Windows being stolen. Simply put a dashboard on it and tell the user what they know of the user (which MS has even MORE knowledge of the user). The reason is that a number of the users simply do not know that they are using a stolen version. I suspect that most users who 'borrow' a copy of MS do not think about it, but would rethink it through if they were labeled theves by MS and SAW IT. Heck, it might have been enough money to avoid those massive layoffs (nah; that is really about shifting jobs to India and China; like Verizon, Qwest, IBM, GE, etc).
It remains to be seen what Obama/Dems will do with it. When it comes to ppl screaming that they do not live in their budget, I see nothing by idiots. The president SETS NASA'S DIRECTION. W set it to be massive new undertaking, but then grossly underfunded it (just like everything he did).
Right now, everybody is screaming for NASA to push THEIR idea of what should happen, and few want to provide proper funding for any of it. Personally, I hope that the dems get the clue that the neo-cons did not; Space is near to being able to survive on its own and grew RAPIDLY. This is the time for the dems to pour a BIT of money into it and get this set up. It is NOT hard to do. What is amazing is that with less than and increase of 3 billion next year, 2 billion the year there after, and then 1 extra billion for the next few years thereafter, they can create in space what the Internet did; massive jobs and new frontiers.
The man has been in there for 10 months, has been dealing with the 2 wars, the worse economy since 1935, massive corruption in the previous admin, taking American rights, quite possibly war crimes by the previous admin, and you think that NASA's underfunding by the neo-cons for 7 long years is his top priority? Really?
So far, Obama has nearly DOUBLED the amount of money being spent on Science that W/Neo-cons did, and I HOPE that Obama will br brighter than them.
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Depending on the bandwidth, approaches, distance, etc, the collectors can be small. If distance is the real issues, then build a specialized UAVs that has a large collector that can then send it to multiple points, in a different means.
The funny thing is that for the last 50 years, I kept hearing that it was off by 10 years. Now, that the whole planet is involved, it will take 40 years. What do you think is the chance that it will not work?
My bet is that it will be some other means of doing it.
If we remain in Afghanistan to stop AQ, then getting supplies into there is hard. A big part of this is fuel for electric power. This is the ideal situation for a small 10-50 MW space generator to beam it into bases, esp. forward bases. We can cut the power to the base, if it is taken. In addition, it prevents fuel from being used as a weapon. We could easily have a small version available within 2 years.
In addition, this same idea could be used in the US and other locations to beam 10 MWs into disaster locations. The ability to bring in say 1 MW into multiple locations within 1 hour would make a HUGE difference in say hurricane, earthquake, or even another 9/11.
The simple fact is, that a dome may not only be cheaper, but provide the large mall atmosphere that so many ppl want. Personally, I wish that several areas would dome up and then perhaps we would see larger population density in these locations. In addition, ppl will work towards keeping their area clean.
Now, you are putting words in my mouth. I did not say to deny ANYONE treatment. I said that if they do not have insurance or public option, then ICE should be called in. IOW, the person is treated and their status checked at the same time. If illegal, then arrested and deported. That encourages ALL illegals to have their own insurance.
Yup, I misspelled it. Look through many of my postings and you will find others, since I keep spell checker off.
What I find interesting is that in another posting of yours, you linked to a dictionary def. of America and it out and out said that America referred to USA. IOW, you really are just an asshole looking to troll.
As to getting the doctorate, I have known pleny of PhD's along the way. A number of them are pretty worthless. Just followed the program. IOW, not that impressive to me (or others in the know).
Which is why from the 70's until 2000, I voted either indi, or Libertarian. In 2000, I would have voted for Gore (gf was sick) since I knew that W would be a total disaster for America. In 2004, I held my nose and voted kerry (one notch above W), and in 2008, voted for Obama because of Palin (McCain is not capable of the stress of the job; by now, Palin would have been president). I will probably return to Libertarian on the next election.
So, what you are saying is that those in Canada, Australia, India, UK, and America really have no fucking clue about the meaning of our language, while you, a none-native speaker (and an obviously ignorant one), does? What I find interesting is that when I travel to Germany (Frankfurt and Neu-Isenburg) that old co-workers refer to USA as America as well.
Offhand, I would say that you are simply an asshole with a chip on your shoulder and nothing else up there.
On what basis are you concluding that? A quick look suggests that a good estimate of the poor (by official poverty line) in the US is 39 million, while the illegal immigrant population may be something around 11 million. That says that at the most about a quarter of the poor are illegal immigrants, and that's assuming that all illegal immigrants are poor (which isn't strictly true, though I don't know how far off it is). In any case, the bill bars illegal immigrants [factcheck.org] from getting aid in buying health insurance, although it remains to be seen how that would be enforced.
First, that poverty line INCLUDES ALL PPL LIVING HERE. That means citizens, legal immigrants and illegal aliens. Second, most of the #s for illegals in the states show 15-30 million, not the low 11 million that you claim.
Second, we have a law that says that no alcohol will be served to 21 and under. BUT, what happens if all the bars are told to NOT check IDs. That is the same situation that is happening. When you can not check the legal status of a person, then the law is worthless (and the dems know that). All that is required is to simply require hospitals to call in ICE for every person that does not have insurance or public options, and require a legality check on ppl signing up for public options, but the dems fought that (i did notice that pubs have not pushed it either; IMHO, they are worse then dems since they claim to be against illegals, while dems claim to love them).
ANY reform on medical costs is worth it. several OB-GYN and and an anesthesiologist that I know (none with any previous issues) are paying over 100K/year for malpractice. That is outrageous.
I can see you point on the last one, except that all who are fighting against this bill are the same idiots that will fight against the lowering of the drugs costs. IOW, it should not change the situation.
Keep in mind that the Senate is not likely to pass this monster. Personally, I do not think that it should be passed, unless we really lower medical costs. And nothing in this does.
You can start by explaining how a multi-trillion dollar government program is going to make things better.
What the invasions and occupations are now programs? Because they are the ONLY thing that was multiple trillions. The health program will be less than 1 trillion over a decade. Now, I have major issues with it, but out and out lying about it solves nothing and will only change the mind of idiots.
The 2009 Mexican flu has a much higher mortality rate than does the normal human flu. That flu includes elements of swine, avian, and regular human flue. In addition, what nasty side effects on the vaccine are you referring to? None have died from it; No pregnancy loses; etc. All that is going on is that idiots like Glen Beck and Fox news are screaming that their are issues with vaccines, while ignoring facts.
Finally, congratulations on that one sentence.
The interesting thing is that it really will fix nothing. All this did was offer up some competition to Insurance (not necessarily a bad thing), but will fund the indigent, which is mostly Illegal aliens here.
What is really sad is that it had NOTHING TO LOWER COSTS. We are in need of tort reform (how much money is paid out for lawsuits); costs of the docs eduction; costs of the drugs; costs of the hospital; etc.
What is amazing is that the neo-cons passed a monster drug bill to help buy old votes. Part of it required the feds to pay TOP DOLLARS for the drugs. Here is the American gov who passed a bill that would make the US federal gov the single largest buyers of drugs in the world, and the neo-cons forbid negotiations for LOWEST PRICE. This is expected to costs something like 400 BILLION dollars, instead of 50 BILLION over the ten years that it was looked at. This is a nice and easy 350 billion dollars to be save. So, did the dems include that in this bill? Nope. They are leaving us at paying the TOP DOLLARS for this.
I swear, The only thing worse than a GD democrat is an elected republican. The republicans are about pure greed and corrupt. The dems are stupid. America is in serious trouble.
When I was a kid back in the 60's, when the police found a drunk driver (DRUNK, not just happy, or DWI), they would take the keys and then drive the offender home. Likewise, speeding tickets were for speeding (as 10-20 mph over). At that time, nearly all the ppl that I knew respected police and did not try to fight with them. My next door neighbor is a cop like that. Great attitude and rolls with the punches so to speak. I guess that is why he handles gangs in Denver. OTH, I think that far too many assholes have become police. Sadly.
Ouch; when I was growing up (60's), the bases were not that bad. That guy was simply being a prick. Out of curiosity, where was that at?
Yeah, I had not woke up at that time, however, I re-read it after my first cup of coffee.
But, after the 2'nd and 3rd ticket, it would have been trivial to prove that he was being harassed/targeted and that is very illegal.
Since he did not take money for this. It sounds like he was trying to prove something. However, even without math AND the fact that the time interval was so long (30 seconds is a long time), it should be obvious that he was clearly speeding. If average is 45 and he started from a stop, then at some point he was going much faster than 45.
OTH, if these units get smart, do 5 (possibly 10) second intervals (still possible to speed a bit and slow down, but not that much), then it would be worthwhile using them to prove that radar is wrong. OTH, I suspect that there will be VERY few times where they differ.
What? You get tickets for doing 3 over a limit? Give me a break. The ONLY way that a cop is going to do that is if they are targeting you, or if it is in a school zone (and I doubt even that). Nearly all states give you 5 to 10 over (colorado gives 10; Seattle and portland gave 10; Atlanta gave 15-20 depending on where you were driving; San Jose gave 10).
Congrats Matthias.
No, they do not. The president puts forward the budget that he wants and then congress goes through and adjusts and passes a budget. Then the president signs off. Basically, it was W that said that he wanted NASA to be undercut. Since neo-cons controlled congress until 2 years and nobody controlled it for the last 2 years, I would said that the 7 years of underfunding belongs to W and the neo-cons( You need to start looking in the mirror and not just passing it by).
The question remains, what will Obama and the dems do.
The thought is that it will enable them to allow say 1/2 to 2/3 to get by quickly, and then focus resources on the smaller group. No doubt that there will be false positives, but, OTH, if you focus more resources on these, then you can process ppl faster.
I would be far more concerned about false negatives. I suspect that a terrorists who has already made up their mind to die is probably not quite as fearful. The true religious fanatics that have convinced themselves that either 72 virgins or Jesus or virgin mary or whatever awaits them in heaven is the one that will likely NOT be afraid. They are focused on a false end goal, so do not care about the means to it (though I am still trying to figure out what female muslims get; 72 virgin males? What a joke).
These are ppl that have already made up their mind of HOW things will happen. If they know that they are going to die, they have already discarded the fear. As such, it is possible that these ppl will get by. OTH, if they are hoping to get out of it alive, then yeah, fear will be a big factor.
They would borrow from Google (as opposed to out and out stealing from small companies). In particular, MS grips all the time about Windows being stolen. Simply put a dashboard on it and tell the user what they know of the user (which MS has even MORE knowledge of the user). The reason is that a number of the users simply do not know that they are using a stolen version. I suspect that most users who 'borrow' a copy of MS do not think about it, but would rethink it through if they were labeled theves by MS and SAW IT. Heck, it might have been enough money to avoid those massive layoffs (nah; that is really about shifting jobs to India and China; like Verizon, Qwest, IBM, GE, etc).
Since Nixon, the budget has been at ~1% of the federal budget. It dropped pretty heavily under reagan and W, stayed mostly even with Clinton and Carter (though both dropped it in their last years due to the economy) and increased with Poppa bush. This current budget which is W's has it at .52% of budget.
It remains to be seen what Obama/Dems will do with it. When it comes to ppl screaming that they do not live in their budget, I see nothing by idiots. The president SETS NASA'S DIRECTION. W set it to be massive new undertaking, but then grossly underfunded it (just like everything he did).
Right now, everybody is screaming for NASA to push THEIR idea of what should happen, and few want to provide proper funding for any of it. Personally, I hope that the dems get the clue that the neo-cons did not; Space is near to being able to survive on its own and grew RAPIDLY. This is the time for the dems to pour a BIT of money into it and get this set up. It is NOT hard to do. What is amazing is that with less than and increase of 3 billion next year, 2 billion the year there after, and then 1 extra billion for the next few years thereafter, they can create in space what the Internet did; massive jobs and new frontiers.
The man has been in there for 10 months, has been dealing with the 2 wars, the worse economy since 1935, massive corruption in the previous admin, taking American rights, quite possibly war crimes by the previous admin, and you think that NASA's underfunding by the neo-cons for 7 long years is his top priority? Really?
So far, Obama has nearly DOUBLED the amount of money being spent on Science that W/Neo-cons did, and I HOPE that Obama will br brighter than them.