were about the same. Both ran up monster deficits for no real reason. Both had economic bumps up front, so, I could not blame them for that spending. BUT, once the economy turned, they both increased the debts and threw money away. Between their debts, invasions of other countries, stealing of American rights, etc, the American dream is about to be the American nightmare.
Far too many ppl think that NASA and other RD programs do better under conservatives, but Nixon, reagan, and W were by far the worst presidents WRT NASA, or any spending on RD programs. To be fair, reagan did massive cuts in civilian programs (nsf, nasa, nih, etc), but he did increase funding to DARPA (not as much as the cuts).
In general, Common sense is doing what others taught you, or what you think that others will want (hence "common"). Intelligence is the ability to reason in new directions. Basically, the smarter you are, the stronger your ability to overcome common sense. The problems come in when bright ppl do not have a strong moral ethics. For example, some of the brightest republicans have the least scruples; REAL BAD COMBO.
They are comparing American tech from nearly 50 years ago, to UK current tech. Amazing. The double bladed American that they looked IS around, BUT, none of the homes built after early 1960s are allowed to use. ALL have the double blade, with a single pin (ground or earth). Whats more, since the 70's, America does not use fuses. We use Circuit Breakers, and since the mid 80's have required GFCI on all our lines. Screw the SLOW BURNING FUSE that allows a heck of a charge before blowing. I have to say that I prefer the gfci/cb approach since it is much faster acting and always assured
So the nook is the kindle killer, while Spring is the BN killer. Makes sense to me.
So what good is a hook to a nook, if the nook makes cannot read the future. They can not do a cookbook on a nook, since they just got the hook. (apologies).
The mining will be done by robotics. Man is far too expensive to use for labor. In fact, I would argue that if we do not get off this planet in the next 20 years with a permanent colony, we will probably never get off. The reason is that robots will be sent instead, and we will see far too many ppl saying that man needs to solve our local issues before venturing into space (which will never happen).
The reason why NASA has problem (as does RSA and somewhat ESA), is that all have settled on one design and stick with it. What is needed is multiple designs and development. Only by doing numerous approaches will better be found.
And yet, all nations have equivalence to itar. Heck, China now prevents exporting of any tech and even rare earth mineral. UK, france, Germany, Canada, Australia, and even Israel have ITAR equivalence.
ITAR is not protectionism. It is about refusing to allow technology to fall into another nation's hand that can use it against western nations. There is a difference. Yes, some of the companies, mostly Bigelow, are upset. What is interesting is that all involve China wanting access to our tech. NONE of the restrictions are about allowing any western or even most of the 3'rd world nation from being near this.
I have to say that I think that Obama really screwed up by moving ITAR to be under Dept. of Commerce. THat does not even make sense. ITAR is about security.
First, X-prizes are NOT protectionism. Protectionism is about protecting your own existing companies. An x-prize is about DEVELOPING NEW MARKETS. If you chose to develop it for your nation, how is that wrong?
Dumb question, but why are you not encouraging other nations to hold x-prizes? If these other nations are so advanced, then they will do it as well. Heck, nearly all of the western nations, Russia, as well as China, are in MUCH better economic shape than is America. What is wrong with THEM doing this? As it is, I see EU and China doing lots of development without involving American companies. Is that protectionism? How about EU and China trying to block Google, while funding their own national search engines (to be sold by private companies)? Is that protectionism?
What protectionism is in place? The only thing that we have is that any space tech can not be shared with China. The last time we did, that tech made it into their missiles FASTER than it made it into the rest of their civilian rocket line. As it is, SpaceX has numbers that is lower than anybody, and that is before China starts mega-dumping on the market (they already are dumping).
Europe and America are no longer major breeders. Heck, all of the dominant white nations are actually losing population EXCEPT for illegal immigrants. The same thing is happening in Japan , except they really crack down on illegals (even harder than EU does). South Korea is the only western nation that has a stable population.
Basically, look to Asia and Hispanics for the extreme population rate. Africa also has a very high breeding rate, but the disease (esp. HIV), make for a very low life span. BUT, throughout Latin America, thanks to the Catholics push against birth control, they are reproducing at a wild rate. And yes, those hispanics that come to America and work the fields or do low end work, typically have 3-5 children, sometimes more. More importantly, these are the ppl that are shorter and fatter. Of course that may have a lot to do with eating habits and not genetics. For example, look at Indians. They were traditionally VERY small. In the last several generations they have been growing in height. Why? Diet is changing. They are including lots more meat (heavy on protein).
It is possible that many of the hispanics under a decent diet will also grow in height.
Actually, that is being done with Algae for converting to oil. What amazes me is that there is plenty of CO2 left over. It seems like it would be smart to do simply allow the extra to spill into those greenhouses and then use robots to work the plants.
The ONLY one gripping appears to be you. Of course, I am guessing that you grip about any environmentalist no matter what they do. Whats more, I am also going to guess that you will be decrying these guys work in just a short bit as causing a lose of money to oil companies.
So do you. Potassium and Phosphorus, as well as most, if not all of the micro elements are in diesel. Why? Because it CAME FROM BIO-MATTER IN THE FIRST PLACE. Hell, where do you think that FERTILIZER COMES FROM? What is missing is N. BUT, as other pointed out, nitrogen fixing bacteria and NOx may well do the job.
First, Diesel COMES from degraded bio matter. So, what is in there? MOSTLY, the same stuff. That means that is contains the same micro elements. As other have pointed out, NOx are being generated and it would appear that these are also being injected. As to the nasty stuff, ALL of those will ALWAYS be generated in a diesel system. AND just about ALL will SINK TO THE GROUND. So wether you inject it into the soil, OR you lay it on the top, it is the same. The question is, is it a small amount? If it is, then not a big deal. And it would appear to be the case.
This approach makes good sense ASSUMING that you are using a diesel tractor. I am guessing that this will be the norm in another 5 years.
Actually, Diesel normally contains many of the bio elements in there ( along with many others that are NOT good for bio) since it is from biological background. But, there is a shortage of N in there. I suspect that you are right and that the NOx (which Diesel engines generate a LOT of), would be in there and might be fairly useful.
As to the other contaminants, there are already put in the ground. Those that sink in the air will simply land on the ground and soak in. IOW, injecting this in the ground, PROBABLY is decent, and will probably end up being the norm for any diesel powered tractor in another 5 years.
First, if China really wanted to drag their ppl out of squalor, then they would push for TRUE free enterprise. China is a in cold war and this has NOTHING to do with helping their ppl. Heck, over the last 10 years, they increased their military spending more than all of the rest of their budget COMBINED.
Secondly, the entire issue of limiting carbon is dead wrong with Kyoto and trying to mandate it via gov. even worse. Kyoto and Cap/Trade will only make things WORSE, not better. The reason is that it will encourage more jobs to shift to countries that have the worst issue with Carbon. For starters, China. China is now the largest polluters of carbon. In addition, if they stick with their plans for for coal, and disregard the oil based cars coming on-line in their nation, in 2015-2016, they will have put more carbon into the air than America has in its' history. In addition, by 2018, they will have put me than all of the western nations. And that is just China. It does not include the rest of BRIC.
I have been writting my senators pushing for them to kill the cap/trade and move to a true cap/tax. We need to tax ALL GOODS based on the CO2 from where it came AND where the primary component comes from. Once that is done, then it will encourage all nations to change their strategy of new coal plants and new oil based cars to one of AE, Nukes, and electric cars. In addition, some of the money should then go back to help nations such as the small 3'rd world nations move to these.
Well, from the viewpoint of world markets: if the Chinese entrepreneur can do the job better and cheaper, why should I (as a hypothetical third party) buy gizmos from the EU/US? Just because Americans are per se more worthy of a job than a Chinese person with the same skills?
Cool. So, the west should enact a near total trade barriers against Chinese products and then hook our money against the RMB/Yuan so that our goods do not cost say 7 yuans there, but only costs 1 yuan? In addition, we shouls subsidize our energy and then dump the products on the Chinese and even the regular world markets?
Is that really what you are suggesting as being fair or well thought out?
The Chinese money is much lower BECAUSE they have tied it to the dollar (7 yuans to a dollar, when it should be less than 2 and probably 1 for 1). That means that the Yuan/RMB is seriously undervalued relative to the dollar AND the Euro. Once China is done with America, then they will attack the euro by simply tying it to that. They will be able to hold seriously undervalued relative to that, until they have sucked up the jobs.
Tying the RMB/Yuan to the Euro at a rate that is far far lower than it should be would NOT help EU. It would destroy them. All their manufacturing would slowly move to China because the goods would be far cheaper.
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were about the same. Both ran up monster deficits for no real reason. Both had economic bumps up front, so, I could not blame them for that spending. BUT, once the economy turned, they both increased the debts and threw money away. Between their debts, invasions of other countries, stealing of American rights, etc, the American dream is about to be the American nightmare.
Far too many ppl think that NASA and other RD programs do better under conservatives, but Nixon, reagan, and W were by far the worst presidents WRT NASA, or any spending on RD programs. To be fair, reagan did massive cuts in civilian programs (nsf, nasa, nih, etc), but he did increase funding to DARPA (not as much as the cuts).
In general, Common sense is doing what others taught you, or what you think that others will want (hence "common"). Intelligence is the ability to reason in new directions. Basically, the smarter you are, the stronger your ability to overcome common sense. The problems come in when bright ppl do not have a strong moral ethics. For example, some of the brightest republicans have the least scruples; REAL BAD COMBO.
They are comparing American tech from nearly 50 years ago, to UK current tech. Amazing. The double bladed American that they looked IS around, BUT, none of the homes built after early 1960s are allowed to use. ALL have the double blade, with a single pin (ground or earth). Whats more, since the 70's, America does not use fuses. We use Circuit Breakers, and since the mid 80's have required GFCI on all our lines. Screw the SLOW BURNING FUSE that allows a heck of a charge before blowing. I have to say that I prefer the gfci/cb approach since it is much faster acting and always assured
Everything that you need to know you learned BEFORE kindergarten, eh?
5 and 3 y.o. And yes, it is one of their favorite books. In fact, it USED to be one that I enjoyed.
So the nook is the kindle killer, while Spring is the BN killer. Makes sense to me.
So what good is a hook to a nook, if the nook makes cannot read the future.
They can not do a cookbook on a nook, since they just got the hook. (apologies).
The mining will be done by robotics. Man is far too expensive to use for labor. In fact, I would argue that if we do not get off this planet in the next 20 years with a permanent colony, we will probably never get off. The reason is that robots will be sent instead, and we will see far too many ppl saying that man needs to solve our local issues before venturing into space (which will never happen).
The reason why NASA has problem (as does RSA and somewhat ESA), is that all have settled on one design and stick with it. What is needed is multiple designs and development. Only by doing numerous approaches will better be found.
And yet, all nations have equivalence to itar. Heck, China now prevents exporting of any tech and even rare earth mineral. UK, france, Germany, Canada, Australia, and even Israel have ITAR equivalence.
Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between states, through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, and a variety of other restrictive government regulations designed to discourage imports, and prevent foreign take-over of local markets and companies.
Read it. ITAR is NOT about tariffs, restrictive quotas, and anything that discourages imports, or prevents take-overs. ITAR is used to prevent tech from being exported so that it gets into unfriendly hands. Are their times that it is restrictive? Yup. I saw it used in places at Boeing, NASA, Bell Labs and even Watson labs, as well as several other companies that I thought we were overly restrictive. BUT, this is NOT PROTECTIONISM. We had sat, aviation and general software tech that was not allowed to go to various companies because they wanted to use that tech to sell to China, or did not have safeguards in place. OTH, I have NEVER seen us deny it to western nations unless it was considered part of a black project, as long as the nation/company had decent safeguards.
It is only with China screaming that they want access to our tech (and they want it freely) that ITAR is suddenly pushed as protectionism. Total bunk.
ITAR is not protectionism. It is about refusing to allow technology to fall into another nation's hand that can use it against western nations. There is a difference. Yes, some of the companies, mostly Bigelow, are upset. What is interesting is that all involve China wanting access to our tech. NONE of the restrictions are about allowing any western or even most of the 3'rd world nation from being near this.
I have to say that I think that Obama really screwed up by moving ITAR to be under Dept. of Commerce. THat does not even make sense. ITAR is about security.
First, X-prizes are NOT protectionism. Protectionism is about protecting your own existing companies. An x-prize is about DEVELOPING NEW MARKETS. If you chose to develop it for your nation, how is that wrong?
Dumb question, but why are you not encouraging other nations to hold x-prizes? If these other nations are so advanced, then they will do it as well. Heck, nearly all of the western nations, Russia, as well as China, are in MUCH better economic shape than is America. What is wrong with THEM doing this? As it is, I see EU and China doing lots of development without involving American companies. Is that protectionism? How about EU and China trying to block Google, while funding their own national search engines (to be sold by private companies)? Is that protectionism?
What protectionism is in place? The only thing that we have is that any space tech can not be shared with China. The last time we did, that tech made it into their missiles FASTER than it made it into the rest of their civilian rocket line. As it is, SpaceX has numbers that is lower than anybody, and that is before China starts mega-dumping on the market (they already are dumping).
China has 4 trillion spare dollars sitting around. They should offer up an X-prize to the world.
Europe and America are no longer major breeders. Heck, all of the dominant white nations are actually losing population EXCEPT for illegal immigrants. The same thing is happening in Japan , except they really crack down on illegals (even harder than EU does). South Korea is the only western nation that has a stable population.
Basically, look to Asia and Hispanics for the extreme population rate. Africa also has a very high breeding rate, but the disease (esp. HIV), make for a very low life span. BUT, throughout Latin America, thanks to the Catholics push against birth control, they are reproducing at a wild rate. And yes, those hispanics that come to America and work the fields or do low end work, typically have 3-5 children, sometimes more. More importantly, these are the ppl that are shorter and fatter. Of course that may have a lot to do with eating habits and not genetics. For example, look at Indians. They were traditionally VERY small. In the last several generations they have been growing in height. Why? Diet is changing. They are including lots more meat (heavy on protein).
It is possible that many of the hispanics under a decent diet will also grow in height.
Actually, that is being done with Algae for converting to oil. What amazes me is that there is plenty of CO2 left over. It seems like it would be smart to do simply allow the extra to spill into those greenhouses and then use robots to work the plants.
The ONLY one gripping appears to be you. Of course, I am guessing that you grip about any environmentalist no matter what they do. Whats more, I am also going to guess that you will be decrying these guys work in just a short bit as causing a lose of money to oil companies.
So do you. Potassium and Phosphorus, as well as most, if not all of the micro elements are in diesel. Why? Because it CAME FROM BIO-MATTER IN THE FIRST PLACE. Hell, where do you think that FERTILIZER COMES FROM? What is missing is N. BUT, as other pointed out, nitrogen fixing bacteria and NOx may well do the job.
First, Diesel COMES from degraded bio matter. So, what is in there? MOSTLY, the same stuff. That means that is contains the same micro elements. As other have pointed out, NOx are being generated and it would appear that these are also being injected. As to the nasty stuff, ALL of those will ALWAYS be generated in a diesel system. AND just about ALL will SINK TO THE GROUND. So wether you inject it into the soil, OR you lay it on the top, it is the same. The question is, is it a small amount? If it is, then not a big deal. And it would appear to be the case.
This approach makes good sense ASSUMING that you are using a diesel tractor. I am guessing that this will be the norm in another 5 years.
Actually, Diesel normally contains many of the bio elements in there ( along with many others that are NOT good for bio) since it is from biological background. But, there is a shortage of N in there. I suspect that you are right and that the NOx (which Diesel engines generate a LOT of), would be in there and might be fairly useful.
As to the other contaminants, there are already put in the ground. Those that sink in the air will simply land on the ground and soak in. IOW, injecting this in the ground, PROBABLY is decent, and will probably end up being the norm for any diesel powered tractor in another 5 years.
First, if China really wanted to drag their ppl out of squalor, then they would push for TRUE free enterprise. China is a in cold war and this has NOTHING to do with helping their ppl. Heck, over the last 10 years, they increased their military spending more than all of the rest of their budget COMBINED.
Secondly, the entire issue of limiting carbon is dead wrong with Kyoto and trying to mandate it via gov. even worse. Kyoto and Cap/Trade will only make things WORSE, not better. The reason is that it will encourage more jobs to shift to countries that have the worst issue with Carbon. For starters, China. China is now the largest polluters of carbon. In addition, if they stick with their plans for for coal, and disregard the oil based cars coming on-line in their nation, in 2015-2016, they will have put more carbon into the air than America has in its' history. In addition, by 2018, they will have put me than all of the western nations. And that is just China. It does not include the rest of BRIC.
I have been writting my senators pushing for them to kill the cap/trade and move to a true cap/tax. We need to tax ALL GOODS based on the CO2 from where it came AND where the primary component comes from. Once that is done, then it will encourage all nations to change their strategy of new coal plants and new oil based cars to one of AE, Nukes, and electric cars. In addition, some of the money should then go back to help nations such as the small 3'rd world nations move to these.
Well, from the viewpoint of world markets: if the Chinese entrepreneur can do the job better and cheaper, why should I (as a hypothetical third party) buy gizmos from the EU/US? Just because Americans are per se more worthy of a job than a Chinese person with the same skills?
Cool. So, the west should enact a near total trade barriers against Chinese products and then hook our money against the RMB/Yuan so that our goods do not cost say 7 yuans there, but only costs 1 yuan? In addition, we shouls subsidize our energy and then dump the products on the Chinese and even the regular world markets?
Is that really what you are suggesting as being fair or well thought out?
The Chinese money is much lower BECAUSE they have tied it to the dollar (7 yuans to a dollar, when it should be less than 2 and probably 1 for 1). That means that the Yuan/RMB is seriously undervalued relative to the dollar AND the Euro. Once China is done with America, then they will attack the euro by simply tying it to that. They will be able to hold seriously undervalued relative to that, until they have sucked up the jobs.
In what way is that fair?
Tying the RMB/Yuan to the Euro at a rate that is far far lower than it should be would NOT help EU. It would destroy them. All their manufacturing would slowly move to China because the goods would be far cheaper.