Not good indeed! I have an iPhone 6+ with iOS 11.4 installed. My battery health says "Maximum Capacity 78%" and "Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance".
When I open an app sometimes the interface will blink wildly as if someone was punching controls randomly and repeatedly. On occasions, while residing in my pocket with no app running, the phone will get hot and when I look at the battery percentage it is dropping at about 10% per minute. Just today it dropped from 97% to 63% in five minutes while I was looking at the Storm Radar map connecting via cellphone tower.
I've taken to powering it down when those misbehaviors occur, waiting a minute or two, and then turning it back on. Prior versions of iOS never behaved as poorly as 11.4 has. I've become suspicious that 11.4 was designed to remove trust in older iPhones and convince folks to "upgrade" to the iPhone 10 and wonder if installing 12 would be a good idea. Regardless, IF I have to upgrade it will be to a Samsung iPhone. I'm done with Apple's poor products and anti-1A stance.
FDR, Truman, Nixon (yes, Nixon), and Clinton all tried to introduce universal healthcare. That is nothing new.
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Nixon introduced HMOs to America, and health insurance has suffered for it every since.
Before HMO's I had BCBS while working in a luggage factory for a year. At the end of that year I went to college. In the first week of college I had an emergency appendectomy. The entire bill for the doctor and the hospital came to $750.50, which included a week in the hospital. BCBS paid for every penny.
Today, the average price for an appendectomy (laparoscopy) is $18K, with specialty chop shops offering it for $7K. With "deductibles" and co-pay and the like the average consumer will pay between $1K and #18K for their share of the bill, IF the insurance company pays anything at all.
Dental or vision? Usually a rider that costs $30-$50/mo but pays usually less than half and sometimes nothing. Many dental procedures are covered only once during the year or not covered at all. Need three teeth filled? Sorry, only one is covered, you'll have to pay full boat for the other two.
Also, "co-ordination" prevents you from buying and using more than one health insurance policy when, if you are willing to pay the fees, it shouldn't matter to the insurance companies how many policies you bought.
The entire problem with health insurance, as it is with most other social problems and scientific research, is that Uncle Sam has stuck his greedy nose into it and thus give the insurance companies the ability to stick their hand into Uncle Sam's pocket and extract taxpayer's money at will.
All the medicare supplemental insurance companies are doing is acting as a middle man. They get cash from the federal government to pay medicare patient hospital bills AFTER taking a nice chunk of change out for themselves. The less they pay you the more they put into their own pocket. That's why the CEO of one national supplemental insurance company can live in the midwest and fly every day to his job in California and home again at night, while pulling down several million in annual salary and benefits. People die or go bankrupt so he can do that.
The ownCloudSync system lets you always have your latest files wherever you are. Just specify one or more folders on the local machine and a server to synchronize to. You can configure more computers to synchronize to the same server and any change to the files on one computer will silently and reliably flow across to every other.
Dolphin ownCloud is an extension that integrates the ownCloud web service with the Plasma Desktop (KDE).
Bing? Run by Microsoft, which is just as evil and anti-free speech as Google
Baidu? The definition of censorship -- might as well use Google.
Yandex? If you like your search results slanted to Russia's ideology. Like Baidu, it is alright for the comrades but not for lovers of freedom.
Ecosia? Powered by Bing, claims to be CO2 neutral, but Bing is powered by oil so not really CO2 neutral.
DuckDuckGo or StartPage? For those not wanting to run Bing or Google these two are everyone's favorite. However, they are merely front ends for Google, but they do not let your queries become linked to your IP address or personal info.
Twitter? Surely you jest. The master of double standards and censorship. Besides, like FB, they are dying because people are getting tired of their heavy handed and biased ways.
CCSearch? Just another layer of snooping and 3rd party sales of your info. Logs on your searches kept for a period of time. Just use Google if you don't mind being spied upon.
Wiki.com? A search engine which searches only Wiki's. Wikis themselves are heavily slanted and filtered to fit a certain political slant. Again, comrades should have no problem using them.
Boardreader? If you’re searching for content written by everyday users about a topic this is your tool. Will the "everyday user" know what they are talking about? Too many seem to think that perpetual energy devices are real, and that Planet Nibiru is about to strike.:(
Slideshare? Sponsored by LinkedIn, a comrade to Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft, it links to videos, slides, pdf's and other educational material. Many are dated. Not the site to use if you want up to date information without a slant.
So, what to use? What ever you want. Just know what using your choice can cost you more than you may realize.
First, CO2 is NOT a pollutant, it is plant food and it is fertilizing the greening of the earth: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g... Most biologists will admit that if they haven't sold their soul for federally funded research grants.
Second, it is the best and most economically and readily available energy source, even when it is recycled.
The direction doesn't matter much, for the USA is still a bigger "carbon pig" per capita than those countries.....
"Carbon pig"?
Most of the carbon based fuel used in America are used to feed the population and to transport workers to and from their jobs. Only in Marxist slave states are workers forced to live in dorm rooms within the factories, which are sealed up to prevent them from leaving.
It takes more energy to bring a slice of toast to your breakfast table than you get when you eat it. Modern farming is nothing more than using land to convert oil into food. Cut oil production and people will starve. Do you want that? If so, starve yourself first to prove it.
Only hydrocarbons have the energy density necessary to power our world safely for 27/7/365. And, an often forgotten or deliberately overlooked fact is that Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant, it is a plant food. Green plants use CO2 in their photosynthesis process to create sugar and Oxygen. Humans, animals and most insects breath the Oxygen and eat the sugar to live, releasing CO2 for the plants benefit. There was a time when plants were more abundant than today. Then, CO2 was 800 ppm, not 400ppm. The world didn't lurch into an irreversible green house.
The key use of "renewable" energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal, tide and other sources should be to extract CO2 from the air IF it ever gets over 800PPM. We can recycle CO2 when the necessity becomes great enough, which will probably be when the horizontal drilling exhausts that layer of oil and gas and the cost of producing a barrel becomes equal or greater than the sale price of that barrel.
.... really look at that shit. Its fucking nuts. It can't be sustainable.
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That map is an illusion. Those ship markers are large in proportion to the size of the oceans and land masses, but in reality the craft they represent are extremely small in proportion. Cross an ocean in a sail boat for 3,000 nautical miles and you'd be lucky to see more than two or three other vessels during the whole trip, even while in shipping lanes.
There is a similar map showing the location of most aircraft around the world. Zoom out the Flightradar24 map to show the entire world and the aircraft markers cover landmasses completely, yet very few aircraft collide and fall out of the sky.
Don't let your Marxist theology carry you away. The sky is not falling.
its old. interest is dying with each launch. which is what it should be, if this is going to be a successful commercial operation.
stable sustainable success is boring. risky novelty is interesting. continuous volatility and excitement, indicates high risk of failure.
hardly anyone watch soyuz launches.
A LOT of people went out to the Denver Stapleton Airport to watch the first landing of the Boeing 747 airliner, in October of 1970. The newness lasted about a week. After that only occasionally did people stood on the side of the road near the end of the runway to watch a 747 fly over head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stalin is reported to have said that "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who COUNTS the votes".
iPhones are in a walled garden run by Apple. Google controls Android phones. Will ballots cast for Conservatives be lost "by mistake" while traveling through their system?
Apple and Google are even now massively censoring and/or blocking any political content on their platforms except that posted by the Extreme Left. When called out on it, the excuse is always a "mistake" but such mistakes are made too often for that to be an excuse any longer.
A member of SJW, BLM, AntiFa, CPAUSA, RCP, DSA, SPUSA - of which Ms Ocasio-Cortez is a member, which are essentially indistinguishable from the "Liberal" Democrats, can post a racists screed on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, or other forum controlled by Leftists with impunity. The same post re-posted by Conservatives but with changes to the race of the ridiculed target are immediately blocked by social media for violating "Term of Service", if they give any reason at all. Even death threats by the "Liberals" are allowed on those social media platforms. The Blatant bias is overwhelmingly obvious.
Maxine Waters proved the meaning of the world "Liberal" with her infamous slip of her slippery tongue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... when she declared "this Liberal would be all about nationalizing US oil". She's now demanding that the Extreme Left chase down and harass Conservatives if found in public places. Next they'll demand that Conservatives where gold stars in public to make them easier to identify.
A South American "Liberal" who ran for office and later declared he was a Marxist after he won, Chavez, nationalized oil in Venezuela, after whipping up a class envy storm lathered with the promise of lots of government freebies paid for by oil. Venezuela, once the richest nation in South America because of its oil reserves, is now a classic Marxist hell-hole run by the Marxist Murado who, like Chaves, is always blaming America for his problems, just the way "Liberal" politicians in the major US metropolitan ghettos are always blaming Conservatives for problems of their own making over the last 50+ years the "Liberals" have been in power in those places. The same Venezuelans who voted for the socialist freebies have lost an average of 10Kg due to starvation. They have eaten up all their pets, the local birds, and nearby wild animals and are now desperately trying to leave Venezuela for better places. If the Marxist gain power in the US then many Americans will be loosing 10Kg as well, not just the obese.
The fact t that 81% of all mining takes place in one country, China, which is under totalitarian control. The blockchain ledger contains what they want it to contain. And blockchain has serious scaling problems as well. Supposedly a "distributed" system, most transactions take over an hour to verify if one has downloaded and users their own local blockchain ledger. Most cryptocurrency owners avoid the use of local ledgers by using "wallets" which connect to the ledger on a blockchain server accessed by tens of thousands - no distribution there.
Major blockchain myths and the limitations they impose are discussed in the link below.
tldr; blockchain is, essentially,, a giant Ponzi Scheme masquerading as digital money. He how created it and those who jumped in early made off with the money of the late arrivals who were blinded by dreams of getting rich quick. Eventually, most government will outlaw its use.
You don't need to be super-intelligent to program effectively. You just need to be able to think logically and break down tasks. It doesn't need to be made easier, because if you can't do those two things you shouldn't be programming.
You can't program what you do not know or cannot learn.
However, a lot of my programming students, when introduced to the idea of sorting a list of words or numbers, immediately "invent" the bubble sort. Unless they've been studying ahead or reading on the side, and the good students do, they'll never "invent" the shell or quick sort. Today, most would simple do a search of their coding API for "sorting" and subclass the sort object, making sure to choose the right algorithm out of the choices: bubble, shell, linked list, double linked list, head-tail list, etc.... Ditto for the 3D graphic object they've embedded into their stock market GUI app. When a bug appears in the API and breaks their app they have to attempt a work-around, if that is possible, or wait until a fix comes down the pipe after they file a support ticket.
The web is already decentralized (if you exclude the browsers' victory in banishing self-signed certs). The fact that tons of websites choose to use one or two services is a business decision, not a technical one. You don't need advertising, you could run your own advertising, and you can manage your own payments and subscriptions. But people don't because it's easier to use whatever's popular at the moment. They could choose to include a free plug-in advertising framework which they self-host and manage on their own, but instead they choose to use a 3rd party service and pay them instead. The sites don't care about you, they only care about making money. Thus none of this is a problem for them.
The biggest obstacle is greed and people too lazy to learn. The others are ISP port blocking, ISPs banning servers, and most ISPs having tiny upload speeds. Business class net service isn't required for personal site, so don't tell me you have to upgrade to business service, which isn't even available in a lot of residential zoned areas.
At last, common sense in this distributed web argument.
The number one legal reason why most people cannot participate in the "Decentralized Web", if that web means using P2P protocols like IPFS, or other tunnels built using blockchain, is that the Terms of Service of *MOST* ISP's include a paragraph that customers agree to when they contract for Internet service: they cannot host an Internet server.
Becoming a server for the web content of other sites is exactly what IPFS, I2P, ZeroNet, and similar blockchain based P2P technologies do. With a reasonably fast computer with an i7 CPU, NVidia GPU, 6GB of RAM and 60MB of Internet bandwidth, I installed four of the most popular, one at a time, to experiment with them. The IPFS resulted in my computer HD becoming the home of 200+ other sites, each taking 200MB for a total of 40GB. The worst was the effect IPFS had on my performance. It's CPU usage ranged from 4-6 core (and adjustable setting) and it took half of my bandwidth (also an adjustable setting). At one time the globe depicting the world, with lines projecting perpendicularly from the surface depicting the various websites I was connected to, had nearly 600 lines in it and I could barely use my computer.
And, Joe and Sally Sixpack will NOT be able to install or run IPFS and its brethren even if their ISP didn't forbid them from allowing their computers to be used as servers. If, by chance and with lots of geek help, they did get IPFS (for example) installed on their computers, they would NOT be able to use it because the list of hashes pointing to the websites they are hosting do not give any indication of what is on those remote servers that they are backing up. It's not like surfing the current web. IPFS is klutzy to learn and klutzy to use. While the presence of child porn is a possibility that would keep sane people from letting strangers store files on their machine, potential malware is an even bigger threat. So is illegally obtained data like movies and pirated games that should be licensed. If caught with that stuff on your HD, regardless of how it got there, you can expect fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even jail time.
Huge Terabyte speed trunk lines connect major locations around the world. They enter each country at a few points, usually via undersea cables or buried lines crossing borders, and are terminated at central points with the facilities to handle the traffic. Such facilities are monitored closely by their respective governments, IF the government is not the "ISP". Joe and Sally do not connect to big or small trunk lines. Smaller trunk lines lead to middle tier distributors and the ISPs contract with them. Joe and Sally contract with a specific ISP. They won't allow Joe and Sally to use their personal computers as an Internet server because Joe and Sally would be competing with them in the server market. Joe and Sally will have to purchase Int
Rather than pump the air out of the tube, treat the tube like a wind tunnel and blow air through the tube, or through injectors along the tube, at what ever speed you want the vehicle to go. For 100 - 500 Km stretches pumping tons of air out of the tube would take hours and maintaining the vacuum would take a lot of expensive energy. The inside of the tube could be dimpled or treated in some way to reduce the Reynolds Number. The positive pressure would keep the weather out and make leaks easy to find... they'd whistle.
Includes servers that run "Legal Intercept" spyware accessible to Microsoft and anyone they give license to, including police without valid search warrants and our deep state friends in Washington who control the IRS, EPA and the BLM, among other agencies. Encryption is meaningless when Microsoft controls access to your voice and picture before encryption is applied.
Specifically, averaging 3.2mm, according to Wikipedia. In 15 years, that's only 48mm (less than 2 inches).
How's that going to flood a bunch of stuff that's not on some coral atoll in the South Pacific?
How Indeed! Lunar and solar tides produce variations orders of magnitude larger than that daily. Three millimeters is below the grass of measurement noise from satellite data or floating buoys.
Unless the "study" was just another "sky is falling" AGW horror story the authors should republish when they have definite proof that has undergone peer review with folks other than those at RealClimate, or who make a living off of Federally funded grants.
It's time the US put tariffs on Microsoft products manufactured in China and the EU, and it is time to send H-1B workers home and give those jobs back to Americans.
https://www.oregonlive.com/sil... " Microsoft was moving production to the same place it makes all other Surface products.... Microsoft has previously said it makes its other Surface computers in China."
And, it's been going on for a long time: https://gizmodo.com/5517137/mi... "The conditions—supported by photographic, not just anecdotal evidence—sound downright horrendous:
Workers are hired as "work study students" as young as 16 years of age
They work extremely long shifts, typically "from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m," for $0.65/hr, less food deductions. (Actual wage: $0.52/hr.)
As is common in large manufacturing operations in China, the workers live onsite:
Fourteen workers share each primitive dorm room, sleeping on narrow double-level bunk beds. To "shower," workers fetch hot water in a small plastic bucket to take a sponge bath. Workers describe factory food as awful.
Workers are kept from leaving campus, except during designated hours
There are reports of sexual harassment of female workers by male security guards"
But, knowing how much normal x-rays, 3D mammograms, CAT, NMRs and other 30+ year old technologies still cost, I doubt that many folks in the sub $250K/yr category will be able to afford a color x-ray, much less a color x-ray movie in 3D, if the technology advances in a timely manner. Many hospitals and clinics are still charging up to $7000 for an ultrasound without insurance, but around $300-$600 with insurance. This is pitiful since a new top-tier ultrasound machine is priced at less than $50K, refurbished. So, after 100 readings via insurance the machine is paid off. That will take a month at 4 readings a day. For the next several years, minus maintenance, the income from ultrasounds, a 30+ year old technology, is pure profit. If they charged just $50 per reading they could pay off the machine in 10 months and still be reaping lots of profit, just not enough to allow the CEO and upper management to retire when they are 50.
This is pure politics, with ULA buying its way to the top with political "contributions". The USAF recently completed a bid process for launching secret missions and SpaceX won the bidding. https://www.space.com/40978-sp...
"This is the fifth competitive procurement under the current Phase 1A of the EELV program since SpaceX entered the market to challenge ULA. The $130 million award for the Falcon Heavy launch is considerably lower than the average $350 million price tag for Delta 4 launches."
https://fee.org/articles/compe... "One of the keys to SpaceX’s success has been its ability to substantially undercut the prices of its competitors. While SpaceX lists its Falcon 9 rocket starting at $62 million a flight, the US Air Force budgeted $422 million for a single ULA flight in 2020."
In time competition will bring the competitors together. SpaceX will raise it prices and the ULA will have to cut their to compete. The ULA will switch from using Russian RD-180 engines to the BE-4 engine Bezos is developing, but hasn't begun engine qualification testing and doesn't plant to till 2019. Meanwhile, the ULA has ordered, and Russia will supply by the end of 2018, TWO new batches of the Russian RD-180 engine. https://www.zerohedge.com/news... Those engines make the ULA dependent on the Russians and pose a security threat to the US.
Amazingly, NASA says the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX! Only in NASA and the ULA's political dreams. I wonder how much money changed hands for NASA "insiders" to claim the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX when SpaceX builds and supplies every part of their American made Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy, engines included.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not good indeed!
I have an iPhone 6+ with iOS 11.4 installed.
My battery health says "Maximum Capacity 78%" and "Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance".
When I open an app sometimes the interface will blink wildly as if someone was punching controls randomly and repeatedly.
On occasions, while residing in my pocket with no app running, the phone will get hot and when I look at the battery percentage it is dropping at about 10% per minute. Just today it dropped from 97% to 63% in five minutes while I was looking at the Storm Radar map connecting via cellphone tower.
I've taken to powering it down when those misbehaviors occur, waiting a minute or two, and then turning it back on.
Prior versions of iOS never behaved as poorly as 11.4 has.
I've become suspicious that 11.4 was designed to remove trust in older iPhones and convince folks to "upgrade" to the iPhone 10 and wonder if installing 12 would be a good idea. Regardless, IF I have to upgrade it will be to a Samsung iPhone. I'm done with Apple's poor products and anti-1A stance.
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FDR, Truman, Nixon (yes, Nixon), and Clinton all tried to introduce universal healthcare. That is nothing new.
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Nixon introduced HMOs to America, and health insurance has suffered for it every since.
Before HMO's I had BCBS while working in a luggage factory for a year. At the end of that year I went to college. In the first week of college I had an emergency appendectomy. The entire bill for the doctor and the hospital came to $750.50, which included a week in the hospital. BCBS paid for every penny.
Today, the average price for an appendectomy (laparoscopy) is $18K, with specialty chop shops offering it for $7K. With "deductibles" and co-pay and the like the average consumer will pay between $1K and #18K for their share of the bill, IF the insurance company pays anything at all.
Dental or vision? Usually a rider that costs $30-$50/mo but pays usually less than half and sometimes nothing. Many dental procedures are covered only once during the year or not covered at all. Need three teeth filled? Sorry, only one is covered, you'll have to pay full boat for the other two.
Also, "co-ordination" prevents you from buying and using more than one health insurance policy when, if you are willing to pay the fees, it shouldn't matter to the insurance companies how many policies you bought.
The entire problem with health insurance, as it is with most other social problems and scientific research, is that Uncle Sam has stuck his greedy nose into it and thus give the insurance companies the ability to stick their hand into Uncle Sam's pocket and extract taxpayer's money at will.
All the medicare supplemental insurance companies are doing is acting as a middle man. They get cash from the federal government to pay medicare patient hospital bills AFTER taking a nice chunk of change out for themselves. The less they pay you the more they put into their own pocket. That's why the CEO of one national supplemental insurance company can live in the midwest and fly every day to his job in California and home again at night, while pulling down several million in annual salary and benefits. People die or go bankrupt so he can do that.
The year 2005 is calling, asking you to return its opinion.
Windows is so great that all 500 super computers run it? Oh ... wait ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ownCloudSync system lets you always have your latest files wherever you are. Just specify one or more folders on the local machine and a server to synchronize to. You can configure more computers to synchronize to the same server and any change to the files on one computer will silently and reliably flow across to every other.
Dolphin ownCloud is an extension that integrates the ownCloud web service with the Plasma Desktop (KDE).
Alexa, please send email attachment to Bobby.
Done.
Alexa silently sends email and attachments to Amazon.
Bing?
Run by Microsoft, which is just as evil and anti-free speech as Google
Baidu?
The definition of censorship -- might as well use Google.
Yandex?
If you like your search results slanted to Russia's ideology. Like Baidu, it is alright for the comrades but not for lovers of freedom.
Ecosia?
Powered by Bing, claims to be CO2 neutral, but Bing is powered by oil so not really CO2 neutral.
DuckDuckGo or StartPage?
For those not wanting to run Bing or Google these two are everyone's favorite. However, they are merely front ends for Google, but they do not let your queries become linked to your IP address or personal info.
Twitter?
Surely you jest. The master of double standards and censorship. Besides, like FB, they are dying because people are getting tired of their heavy handed and biased ways.
CCSearch?
Just another layer of snooping and 3rd party sales of your info. Logs on your searches kept for a period of time. Just use Google if you don't mind being spied upon.
Wiki.com?
A search engine which searches only Wiki's. Wikis themselves are heavily slanted and filtered to fit a certain political slant. Again, comrades should have no problem using them.
Boardreader? :(
If you’re searching for content written by everyday users about a topic this is your tool. Will the "everyday user" know what they are talking about? Too many seem to think that perpetual energy devices are real, and that Planet Nibiru is about to strike.
Slideshare?
Sponsored by LinkedIn, a comrade to Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft, it links to videos, slides, pdf's and other educational material. Many are dated. Not the site to use if you want up to date information without a slant.
So, what to use?
What ever you want. Just know what using your choice can cost you more than you may realize.
First, CO2 is NOT a pollutant, it is plant food and it is fertilizing the greening of the earth:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...
Most biologists will admit that if they haven't sold their soul for federally funded research grants.
Second, it is the best and most economically and readily available energy source, even when it is recycled.
So, recycle it.
Not as much as doctors and hospitals are. Shall we outlaw them?
The direction doesn't matter much, for the USA is still a bigger "carbon pig" per capita than those countries. ....
"Carbon pig"?
Most of the carbon based fuel used in America are used to feed the population and to transport workers to and from their jobs. Only in Marxist slave states are workers forced to live in dorm rooms within the factories, which are sealed up to prevent them from leaving.
It takes more energy to bring a slice of toast to your breakfast table than you get when you eat it.
Modern farming is nothing more than using land to convert oil into food. Cut oil production and people will starve. Do you want that? If so, starve yourself first to prove it.
Only hydrocarbons have the energy density necessary to power our world safely for 27/7/365. And, an often forgotten or deliberately overlooked fact is that Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant, it is a plant food. Green plants use CO2 in their photosynthesis process to create sugar and Oxygen. Humans, animals and most insects breath the Oxygen and eat the sugar to live, releasing CO2 for the plants benefit. There was a time when plants were more abundant than today. Then, CO2 was 800 ppm, not 400ppm. The world didn't lurch into an irreversible green house.
The key use of "renewable" energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal, tide and other sources should be to extract CO2 from the air IF it ever gets over 800PPM. We can recycle CO2 when the necessity becomes great enough, which will probably be when the horizontal drilling exhausts that layer of oil and gas and the cost of producing a barrel becomes equal or greater than the sale price of that barrel.
.... really look at that shit. Its fucking nuts. It can't be sustainable.
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That map is an illusion. Those ship markers are large in proportion to the size of the oceans and land masses, but in reality the craft they represent are extremely small in proportion. Cross an ocean in a sail boat for 3,000 nautical miles and you'd be lucky to see more than two or three other vessels during the whole trip, even while in shipping lanes.
There is a similar map showing the location of most aircraft around the world. Zoom out the Flightradar24 map to show the entire world and the aircraft markers cover landmasses completely, yet very few aircraft collide and fall out of the sky.
Don't let your Marxist theology carry you away. The sky is not falling.
its old. interest is dying with each launch.
which is what it should be, if this is going to be a successful commercial operation.
stable sustainable success is boring. risky novelty is interesting.
continuous volatility and excitement, indicates high risk of failure.
hardly anyone watch soyuz launches.
A LOT of people went out to the Denver Stapleton Airport to watch the first landing of the Boeing 747 airliner, in October of 1970. The newness lasted about a week. After that only occasionally did people stood on the side of the road near the end of the runway to watch a 747 fly over head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Stalin is reported to have said that "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who COUNTS the votes".
iPhones are in a walled garden run by Apple. Google controls Android phones. Will ballots cast for Conservatives be lost "by mistake" while traveling through their system?
Apple and Google are even now massively censoring and/or blocking any political content on their platforms except that posted by the Extreme Left. When called out on it, the excuse is always a "mistake" but such mistakes are made too often for that to be an excuse any longer.
A member of SJW, BLM, AntiFa, CPAUSA, RCP, DSA, SPUSA - of which Ms Ocasio-Cortez is a member, which are essentially indistinguishable from the "Liberal" Democrats, can post a racists screed on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, or other forum controlled by Leftists with impunity. The same post re-posted by Conservatives but with changes to the race of the ridiculed target are immediately blocked by social media for violating "Term of Service", if they give any reason at all. Even death threats by the "Liberals" are allowed on those social media platforms. The Blatant bias is overwhelmingly obvious.
Maxine Waters proved the meaning of the world "Liberal" with her infamous slip of her slippery tongue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
when she declared "this Liberal would be all about nationalizing US oil". She's now demanding that the Extreme Left chase down and harass Conservatives if found in public places. Next they'll demand that Conservatives where gold stars in public to make them easier to identify.
A South American "Liberal" who ran for office and later declared he was a Marxist after he won, Chavez, nationalized oil in Venezuela, after whipping up a class envy storm lathered with the promise of lots of government freebies paid for by oil. Venezuela, once the richest nation in South America because of its oil reserves, is now a classic Marxist hell-hole run by the Marxist Murado who, like Chaves, is always blaming America for his problems, just the way "Liberal" politicians in the major US metropolitan ghettos are always blaming Conservatives for problems of their own making over the last 50+ years the "Liberals" have been in power in those places. The same Venezuelans who voted for the socialist freebies have lost an average of 10Kg due to starvation. They have eaten up all their pets, the local birds, and nearby wild animals and are now desperately trying to leave Venezuela for better places. If the Marxist gain power in the US then many Americans will be loosing 10Kg as well, not just the obese.
The fact t that 81% of all mining takes place in one country, China, which is under totalitarian control. The blockchain ledger contains what they want it to contain. And blockchain has serious scaling problems as well. Supposedly a "distributed" system, most transactions take over an hour to verify if one has downloaded and users their own local blockchain ledger. Most cryptocurrency owners avoid the use of local ledgers by using "wallets" which connect to the ledger on a blockchain server accessed by tens of thousands - no distribution there.
Major blockchain myths and the limitations they impose are discussed in the link below.
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog...
tldr; blockchain is, essentially,, a giant Ponzi Scheme masquerading as digital money. He how created it and those who jumped in early made off with the money of the late arrivals who were blinded by dreams of getting rich quick. Eventually, most government will outlaw its use.
You don't need to be super-intelligent to program effectively. You just need to be able to think logically and break down tasks. It doesn't need to be made easier, because if you can't do those two things you shouldn't be programming.
You can't program what you do not know or cannot learn.
However, a lot of my programming students, when introduced to the idea of sorting a list of words or numbers, immediately "invent" the bubble sort. Unless they've been studying ahead or reading on the side, and the good students do, they'll never "invent" the shell or quick sort. Today, most would simple do a search of their coding API for "sorting" and subclass the sort object, making sure to choose the right algorithm out of the choices: bubble, shell, linked list, double linked list, head-tail list, etc.... Ditto for the 3D graphic object they've embedded into their stock market GUI app. When a bug appears in the API and breaks their app they have to attempt a work-around, if that is possible, or wait until a fix comes down the pipe after they file a support ticket.
The web is already decentralized (if you exclude the browsers' victory in banishing self-signed certs). The fact that tons of websites choose to use one or two services is a business decision, not a technical one. You don't need advertising, you could run your own advertising, and you can manage your own payments and subscriptions. But people don't because it's easier to use whatever's popular at the moment. They could choose to include a free plug-in advertising framework which they self-host and manage on their own, but instead they choose to use a 3rd party service and pay them instead. The sites don't care about you, they only care about making money. Thus none of this is a problem for them.
The biggest obstacle is greed and people too lazy to learn. The others are ISP port blocking, ISPs banning servers, and most ISPs having tiny upload speeds. Business class net service isn't required for personal site, so don't tell me you have to upgrade to business service, which isn't even available in a lot of residential zoned areas.
At last, common sense in this distributed web argument.
The number one legal reason why most people cannot participate in the "Decentralized Web", if that web means using P2P protocols like IPFS, or other tunnels built using blockchain, is that the Terms of Service of *MOST* ISP's include a paragraph that customers agree to when they contract for Internet service: they cannot host an Internet server.
Becoming a server for the web content of other sites is exactly what IPFS, I2P, ZeroNet, and similar blockchain based P2P technologies do. With a reasonably fast computer with an i7 CPU, NVidia GPU, 6GB of RAM and 60MB of Internet bandwidth, I installed four of the most popular, one at a time, to experiment with them. The IPFS resulted in my computer HD becoming the home of 200+ other sites, each taking 200MB for a total of 40GB. The worst was the effect IPFS had on my performance. It's CPU usage ranged from 4-6 core (and adjustable setting) and it took half of my bandwidth (also an adjustable setting). At one time the globe depicting the world, with lines projecting perpendicularly from the surface depicting the various websites I was connected to, had nearly 600 lines in it and I could barely use my computer.
And, Joe and Sally Sixpack will NOT be able to install or run IPFS and its brethren even if their ISP didn't forbid them from allowing their computers to be used as servers. If, by chance and with lots of geek help, they did get IPFS (for example) installed on their computers, they would NOT be able to use it because the list of hashes pointing to the websites they are hosting do not give any indication of what is on those remote servers that they are backing up. It's not like surfing the current web. IPFS is klutzy to learn and klutzy to use. While the presence of child porn is a possibility that would keep sane people from letting strangers store files on their machine, potential malware is an even bigger threat. So is illegally obtained data like movies and pirated games that should be licensed. If caught with that stuff on your HD, regardless of how it got there, you can expect fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even jail time.
Huge Terabyte speed trunk lines connect major locations around the world. They enter each country at a few points, usually via undersea cables or buried lines crossing borders, and are terminated at central points with the facilities to handle the traffic. Such facilities are monitored closely by their respective governments, IF the government is not the "ISP". Joe and Sally do not connect to big or small trunk lines. Smaller trunk lines lead to middle tier distributors and the ISPs contract with them. Joe and Sally contract with a specific ISP. They won't allow Joe and Sally to use their personal computers as an Internet server because Joe and Sally would be competing with them in the server market. Joe and Sally will have to purchase Int
and its marketing of it?
Rather than pump the air out of the tube, treat the tube like a wind tunnel and blow air through the tube, or through injectors along the tube, at what ever speed you want the vehicle to go. For 100 - 500 Km stretches pumping tons of air out of the tube would take hours and maintaining the vacuum would take a lot of expensive energy. The inside of the tube could be dimpled or treated in some way to reduce the Reynolds Number. The positive pressure would keep the weather out and make leaks easy to find ... they'd whistle.
Includes servers that run "Legal Intercept" spyware accessible to Microsoft and anyone they give license to, including police without valid search warrants and our deep state friends in Washington who control the IRS, EPA and the BLM, among other agencies. Encryption is meaningless when Microsoft controls access to your voice and picture before encryption is applied.
Specifically, averaging 3.2mm, according to Wikipedia. In 15 years, that's only 48mm (less than 2 inches).
How's that going to flood a bunch of stuff that's not on some coral atoll in the South Pacific?
How Indeed!
Lunar and solar tides produce variations orders of magnitude larger than that daily. Three millimeters is below the grass of measurement noise from satellite data or floating buoys.
Unless the "study" was just another "sky is falling" AGW horror story the authors should republish when they have definite proof that has undergone peer review with folks other than those at RealClimate, or who make a living off of Federally funded grants.
It's time the US put tariffs on Microsoft products manufactured in China and the EU, and it is time to send H-1B workers home and give those jobs back to Americans.
https://www.oregonlive.com/sil... ... Microsoft has previously said it makes its other Surface computers in China."
" Microsoft was moving production to the same place it makes all other Surface products.
And, it's been going on for a long time:
https://gizmodo.com/5517137/mi...
"The conditions—supported by photographic, not just anecdotal evidence—sound downright horrendous:
Workers are hired as "work study students" as young as 16 years of age
They work extremely long shifts, typically "from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m," for $0.65/hr, less food deductions. (Actual wage: $0.52/hr.)
As is common in large manufacturing operations in China, the workers live onsite:
Fourteen workers share each primitive dorm room, sleeping on narrow double-level bunk beds. To "shower," workers fetch hot water in a small plastic bucket to take a sponge bath. Workers describe factory food as awful.
Workers are kept from leaving campus, except during designated hours
There are reports of sexual harassment of female workers by male security guards"
And, its been going on for years. Learn how NOT to employ Americans here in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nice to see the announcement of a color x-ray.
But, knowing how much normal x-rays, 3D mammograms, CAT, NMRs and other 30+ year old technologies still cost, I doubt that many folks in the sub $250K/yr category will be able to afford a color x-ray, much less a color x-ray movie in 3D, if the technology advances in a timely manner. Many hospitals and clinics are still charging up to $7000 for an ultrasound without insurance, but around $300-$600 with insurance. This is pitiful since a new top-tier ultrasound machine is priced at less than $50K, refurbished.
So, after 100 readings via insurance the machine is paid off. That will take a month at 4 readings a day. For the next several years, minus maintenance, the income from ultrasounds, a 30+ year old technology, is pure profit.
If they charged just $50 per reading they could pay off the machine in 10 months and still be reaping lots of profit, just not enough to allow the CEO and upper management to retire when they are 50.
Very interesting article! Thanks for the link
This is pure politics, with ULA buying its way to the top with political "contributions".
The USAF recently completed a bid process for launching secret missions and SpaceX won the bidding.
https://www.space.com/40978-sp...
"This is the fifth competitive procurement under the current Phase 1A of the EELV program since SpaceX entered the market to challenge ULA. The $130 million award for the Falcon Heavy launch is considerably lower than the average $350 million price tag for Delta 4 launches. "
https://fee.org/articles/compe...
"One of the keys to SpaceX’s success has been its ability to substantially undercut the prices of its competitors. While SpaceX lists its Falcon 9 rocket starting at $62 million a flight, the US Air Force budgeted $422 million for a single ULA flight in 2020."
In time competition will bring the competitors together. SpaceX will raise it prices and the ULA will have to cut their to compete. The ULA will switch from using Russian RD-180 engines to the BE-4 engine Bezos is developing, but hasn't begun engine qualification testing and doesn't plant to till 2019. Meanwhile, the ULA has ordered, and Russia will supply by the end of 2018, TWO new batches of the Russian RD-180 engine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
Those engines make the ULA dependent on the Russians and pose a security threat to the US.
Amazingly, NASA says the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX! Only in NASA and the ULA's political dreams. I wonder how much money changed hands for NASA "insiders" to claim the ULA is "ahead" of SpaceX when SpaceX builds and supplies every part of their American made Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy, engines included.