with why we can no longer afford to fully fund education
It's more about hemorrhaging money for Taj Mahal schools and paying teachers more money than god for half a year's "work". My teachers in the 1950s and early 60's taught for very short money because they loved it and were dedicated, and they did an infinitely better job of it than today's grossly overpaid teachers and administrators.
For education, ZERO dollars should flow from the feds to the states, and minimal dollars from the states to the towns. That's how it was when education actually WORKED.
The alternative would likely be an increase in income taxes which would likely be progressive and come directly out of his pocket.
Sorry; no. The 73,954 pages of the Federal Income Tax Code blow that theory to hell. CEOs and other parasitic rich pricks leverage the countless loopholes to avoid the taxes.
Call them what they are. Stupid people. And tell me this: why should the minority with functioning brain stems have to be dictated to by stupid people with stupid agendas?
FWD is predictable and you always get to choose which direction you fly off the road in. You get on the gas in a corner and you get understeer. You get off the gas in a turn and you get oversteer. You can dial it the way you want it. With RWD you get oversteer on and off the gas. It's dicier. You can easily get wedged to where you run out of neutral understeer, and you're going for a spin tail first no matter how good you are.
America has enough landfill space to last for centuries
What will you do after centuries? No, not "you" personally, but what do you suggest to be done? I suggest coolsnowman was nothing but perfectly accurate when he said "we are running out of places to just put trash". It's just that the time scale doesn't happen to worry you.
And it would have to somehow magically get a signal through the metal cap (and the heat sink on top) even it there was such a thing inside the CPU chip.
As a Cape Codder, let me tell you it is hell on drivers in the summer. The bike trail has stop signs FOR THE BIKES and caution signs for the drivers, but a sizable number of cyclists blow through the stops. Knowing this, despite the absolute right of way for motorists at these points, I slow to a walking or at least dog-trotting speed in the car at every bike trail intersection, no matter what the conditions are, Usually drivers behind me act like they want to kill me for exercising the caution on behalf of the most vulnerable people.
The other, much worse, problem is that you have a mile after mile of narrow, winding road with almost no straightaways. Practically none of it has any sidewalks, and there is brush coming right up to the edge of the road. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bicycle safely unless you putter along behind them for a long time waiting for that rare straightaway with good visibility. Even passing a jogger requires great care.
the people predicting spikes in oil prices have been wrong for about 100 years...
Yeah, that's why I am now coughing up $3.88/gal for heating oil compared to about 18 cents 45 years ago. This has nothing whatever to do with taxes, and everything to do with simple economics.
Nobody has used Bunker C in steam turbines for ships in many years. Container ships use the same diesel fuel as locomotives. Oh, and one more thing: they burn less of it per tonne-km than trains do. If you electrify railways, than close to the same amount of fuel is still being burned, just in central power stations - given that the electric power system is neither all nuclear nor all renewable.
Now that you know the facts, is your opinion modified? No one is against the CONCEPT of utopia, but right now container ships are the most effieient and greenst practical means of transporting general cargo over long distances.
I see, so you're a luddite who thinks we'd be better off without the cheap energy from Hoover Dam, the Rural Electrification Project and universal phone service were wastes of money, the Port of New York is no use, the Panama Canal was a waste, and so on and so on.
The energy cost of its [rail] use is next to nothing, as is the environmental cost of its use. Shipping is heinous.
Utter clueless nonsense. Container ships use considerably less energy per tonne-km than trains. For that very reason they have less "environmental cost" since they process less fuel. As an aside, there is zero cost to "maintaining" the ocean, vs the expense of keeping rail line functioning and safe.
For workstations, especially portable ones, shorter boot time is a marketing bullet point that differentiates one system producer from another.
Actual "workstations" are never turned off. Therefore elapsed boot time is a complete non issue. Notebooks are another thing entirely. Notebooks are critically wounded computers. Computers with a display that is much too small, a toy keyboard, and a power source that is constantly failing; that has to be watched like a hawk from the moment you turn item on because it runs down like a cheap music box until you wind it up again. OK, they are highly useful, even indispensible, for scenarios when you can't use the real thing, but they should hardly affect the design of an operating system for real computers.
Anyway, notebooks are not so much turned off either as they are suspended or hibernated. Parenthetically that introduces its own set of issues; ones that systemd is arguably very useful in addressing; but that has nothing to do with elapsed boot time.
Finally, elapsed boot time is the LEAST reason to switch to systemd. There are enormously significant ambitious features of systemd that are much more important to a decision whether to use it.
A 60 kWh battery, assuming you don't mind cycling it to 100% discharge, which is extremely severe treatment, represents about 3-4 days of electricity for a house with very light electricity use based on my electric meter, and those of people I know. OTOH, where I am, sunlight is not uncommonly extremely poor for periods longer than that. Unless your photovoltaics are over proportioned by 10-20 times, or you've got at least twice the battery, it ain't gonna cut it.
It would be nice to be able to tap the battery with an inverter during power outages though. In my area when you lose power, you lose water supply (and heat of course). Not very good for sanitation. There's nothing to make you appreciate flush toilets more than 2-3 days without well water.
Flash technology is nearing the practical limits, and there isn't much potential for further savings from production scale either. There isn't a whole lot of room for further economy. I.e., it ain't gonna happen. Not the way people are dreaming.
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I'm taking BOTH my balls and going home - while I've still got them.
What utter bullshit.
It's more about hemorrhaging money for Taj Mahal schools and paying teachers more money than god for half a year's "work". My teachers in the 1950s and early 60's taught for very short money because they loved it and were dedicated, and they did an infinitely better job of it than today's grossly overpaid teachers and administrators.
For education, ZERO dollars should flow from the feds to the states, and minimal dollars from the states to the towns. That's how it was when education actually WORKED.
Sorry; no. The 73,954 pages of the Federal Income Tax Code blow that theory to hell. CEOs and other parasitic rich pricks leverage the countless loopholes to avoid the taxes.
Call them what they are. Stupid people. And tell me this: why should the minority with functioning brain stems have to be dictated to by stupid people with stupid agendas?
FWD is predictable and you always get to choose which direction you fly off the road in. You get on the gas in a corner and you get understeer. You get off the gas in a turn and you get oversteer. You can dial it the way you want it. With RWD you get oversteer on and off the gas. It's dicier. You can easily get wedged to where you run out of neutral understeer, and you're going for a spin tail first no matter how good you are.
Perhaps. Shall we say "for the 10%"?
What will you do after centuries? No, not "you" personally, but what do you suggest to be done? I suggest coolsnowman was nothing but perfectly accurate when he said "we are running out of places to just put trash". It's just that the time scale doesn't happen to worry you.
And it would have to somehow magically get a signal through the metal cap (and the heat sink on top) even it there was such a thing inside the CPU chip.
Mod parent up. The 3G-inside-CPU-chip hysteria is just that.
If you don't stop at a RED LIGHT until it changes you are a selfish as well as stupid bastard BEGGING to get killed, period.
As a Cape Codder, let me tell you it is hell on drivers in the summer. The bike trail has stop signs FOR THE BIKES and caution signs for the drivers, but a sizable number of cyclists blow through the stops. Knowing this, despite the absolute right of way for motorists at these points, I slow to a walking or at least dog-trotting speed in the car at every bike trail intersection, no matter what the conditions are, Usually drivers behind me act like they want to kill me for exercising the caution on behalf of the most vulnerable people.
The other, much worse, problem is that you have a mile after mile of narrow, winding road with almost no straightaways. Practically none of it has any sidewalks, and there is brush coming right up to the edge of the road. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bicycle safely unless you putter along behind them for a long time waiting for that rare straightaway with good visibility. Even passing a jogger requires great care.
How about "deranged"?
Mean freight train speed in the US is closer to half or one third that.
Try 47 km/h. We've come a long way since those slow WW2 convoys.
So you see, given that the train route would be much longer than the direct one to, say, Los Angeles, ships are fast if not faster.
Yeah, that's why I am now coughing up $3.88/gal for heating oil compared to about 18 cents 45 years ago. This has nothing whatever to do with taxes, and everything to do with simple economics.
Nobody has used Bunker C in steam turbines for ships in many years. Container ships use the same diesel fuel as locomotives. Oh, and one more thing: they burn less of it per tonne-km than trains do. If you electrify railways, than close to the same amount of fuel is still being burned, just in central power stations - given that the electric power system is neither all nuclear nor all renewable.
Now that you know the facts, is your opinion modified? No one is against the CONCEPT of utopia, but right now container ships are the most effieient and greenst practical means of transporting general cargo over long distances.
I see, so you're a luddite who thinks we'd be better off without the cheap energy from Hoover Dam, the Rural Electrification Project and universal phone service were wastes of money, the Port of New York is no use, the Panama Canal was a waste, and so on and so on.
Utter clueless nonsense. Container ships use considerably less energy per tonne-km than trains. For that very reason they have less "environmental cost" since they process less fuel. As an aside, there is zero cost to "maintaining" the ocean, vs the expense of keeping rail line functioning and safe.
Actual "workstations" are never turned off. Therefore elapsed boot time is a complete non issue. Notebooks are another thing entirely. Notebooks are critically wounded computers. Computers with a display that is much too small, a toy keyboard, and a power source that is constantly failing; that has to be watched like a hawk from the moment you turn item on because it runs down like a cheap music box until you wind it up again. OK, they are highly useful, even indispensible, for scenarios when you can't use the real thing, but they should hardly affect the design of an operating system for real computers.
Anyway, notebooks are not so much turned off either as they are suspended or hibernated. Parenthetically that introduces its own set of issues; ones that systemd is arguably very useful in addressing; but that has nothing to do with elapsed boot time.
Finally, elapsed boot time is the LEAST reason to switch to systemd. There are enormously significant ambitious features of systemd that are much more important to a decision whether to use it.
A 60 kWh battery, assuming you don't mind cycling it to 100% discharge, which is extremely severe treatment, represents about 3-4 days of electricity for a house with very light electricity use based on my electric meter, and those of people I know. OTOH, where I am, sunlight is not uncommonly extremely poor for periods longer than that. Unless your photovoltaics are over proportioned by 10-20 times, or you've got at least twice the battery, it ain't gonna cut it.
It would be nice to be able to tap the battery with an inverter during power outages though. In my area when you lose power, you lose water supply (and heat of course). Not very good for sanitation. There's nothing to make you appreciate flush toilets more than 2-3 days without well water.
Fine. What I see is a goddam good time to invest.
Funny, my take-away was a little different - that AV is no goddam good for nothing.
Boy, you really cleared the whole thing up for me.
That's two posts so far in which you've called it "RMBK". You might want to spell it right. It's RBMK - Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalnyy.
Flash technology is nearing the practical limits, and there isn't much potential for further savings from production scale either. There isn't a whole lot of room for further economy. I.e., it ain't gonna happen. Not the way people are dreaming.