It can take decades to get a green card, but once you have a green card, it's just 5 years residence in the USA required before you can apply for citizenship. I don't think that the time to get US citizenship is particularly dependent on your country of origin, or current citizenship.
Depending on who you are, or perhaps what day of the week you apply, you may find that the FBI takes more time to approve your application for citizenship. My wife's application went through in 6 months. Mine took 18 months. We come from the same country and applied for citizenship on the same day.
It's still smart to invest in companies that produce energy from oil today, because they will be a huge source of renewable energy tomorrow. As they are experts on energy distribution,
Depending on who you are talking about, good luck with that. The distribution that will matter in the future are the electrical grids. The companies that run the grids tend to be heavily regulated, so things probably won't change too much for them.
The companies with expertise in moving oil, natural gas and coal? That expertise isn't going to matter so much as fossil fuels become less important.
Also, for the company to buy back its own shares requires cash, and that has a cost which will reduce the amount of money available to pay dividends or reinvest.
That's a great explanation except that, you know the value of their shares has gone down. This affects shareholders, which includes executives, who want to sell and turn their shares into cash at some time in the future. They will get less cash.
When there are more sellers than buyers, the price goes down.
If a company buys its own stock to prop up the price, that company runs the risk of running out of cash. Lower stock prices make it more difficult to raise cash.
Also, the execs own lots of stock. When the price goes down, their own finances suffer.
Comcast's billing systems are clearly designed to overcharge.
I recently returned a rented cable modem because I bought my own. I can log into Comcast's account page and look at "Devices" and the rented modem is no longer there.
Yet they still billed me for the rented modem. How can their systems know that I don't have the modem, yet continue to charge me for it?
I expect that, if challenged, they would claim that there are two separate systems that don't interact properly and their agent simply did not do his job when I returned the equipment, but why maintain two systems? Why not make them interact better? Probably because mistakes like this almost always work in Comcast's favor, so they have an incentive to not fix the problem.
Someone has taken a decision to not fix a problem that screws up frequently and almost always benefits Comcast. Design can be implemented through concious inaction as well as action. After all, fixing the problem would improve productivity.
It does not cover Executive Orders, nor Supreme Court rulings; it only covers one arm of the state. Technically, the POTUS can issue Executive Orders restricting free speech.
And everyone would be free to ignore those orders, because neither has the authority to issue them. Your "correction" is just mental masturbation.
Of course one wind farm is small in comparison to the total investment in old technologies, idiot. It's not a useful comparison. What if I compared one coal plant against the total investments in renewable energy?
Which group of people is in the best position to "influence" the jury? How many members of the jury need to be "influenced"?
There was another case where there was video of someone in handcuffs in an interview room being beaten by a policeman, but the policeman was acquitted.
They'll be installed and generating power on the grid. Who cares where?
The anti-renewable energy crowd don't understand this critical point: electricity is fungible. If they reduce demand for dirty power, it really doesn't matter which coal-powered generator shuts down.
It's not as simple as that. If you can force the value of coal down, then less will be extracted because some pits will not be economically viable.
Ultimately, a new equilibrium will develop, which probably involves less coal being burned.
Solar doesn't necessarily need battery backup, although this does make it more useful. In large parts of the world, demand for electricity is highest when the sun is shining.
We are at an early stage and recycling is not important yet, but it will. There are too many materials used in batteries for it not to become viable to recycle in the future.
As for your comment about birds, that's out of date. The newest (and largest) turbines don't have anything like the same kill rate.
The problem with CNG is that its extraction is not without environmental cost and there is a limited supply. Now I do realize that the time when fossil fuels will run out keeps being delayed. I think that when I was in school, decades ago, they were expecting oil to run out around 2025.
Look how fervently the Obama Administration insisted that the Little Sister of the Poor must pay for abortifacients [battleswarmblog.com] rather than come to an accommodation as required by the law.
Linking to your own blog does not provide any support for the false narrative that you are pushing.
The question was not about the Sisters paying for abortions. It was about the Sisters filling in a form stating that they would not provide cover for abortions, so that the government could pay for those abortions.
All that is necessary is to let the laundry build up until there is a complete load and then run it that night. In your scenario, there is some need to wait until the laundry has built up to require multiple loads. OK, you might need to have a few extra clothes (one day's extra) if the loads build up so that you need to run different types of loads on the same day.
There is no difference in this process if there is one person in the household or multiple. In fact, it is probably easier with multiple people in the household.
I suspect that the concept of "laundry day" has more to do with other scheduling issues than build up of dirty laundry.
But, go ahead, making up your wrong assumptions. Progress lies in the other direction, but you probably don't care.
Remember, that the occasional time the washer is run during the day doesn't invalidate the idea. The goal is shifting use of as much electricity as possible to night use and it's not a failure if some electricity is used during the day.
Perfection is the enemy of progress as well as the enemy of good
I've also wondered if the whole smart device thing could end up being a net bonus -- for example, during the cheap hours, freezers/electric water heaters/dishwashers/etc. could do their thing. Most of this could of course be done with a simple timer,
You are only a few decades behind the times.
It's been common for decades in the UK for appliances to have delay timers. In the USA, appliances with delay timers are available.
In California, you can get better electricity rates if you hook up your AC controller to a service which will turn it off for some time when demand peaks.
In the UK, they have house heating systems that store heat at night and release it during the day. Again, these have been available for decades. Gas provides a cheaper energy source, so this type of heating is usually only found in houses that don't have mains gas connections.
solar panes and wind turbines will NEVER wear out way faster than they'll ever make their money back,
You are the fanatic. you are the one who needs education.
You are wrong. The idea that wind and solar never pay back is just one of the fossil fuel lobby's lies about renewables. The idea that wind and solar don't provide cost-effective sources of energy is ridiculous. Yes, it's taken some time to get there, but we have arrived. Coal is dying because it's too expensive.
I hope the Koch brothers pay you well for pushing their agenda with your propaganda. Otherwise, you really are wasting your time.
All of the electric utilities in the Western Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions and operate at a synchronized frequency of 60 Hz. The Western Interconnection stretches from Western Canada south to Baja California in Mexico, reaching eastward over the Rockies to the Great Plains.
There are basically 3 grids in the USA: Western, Eastern and Texas.
IMHO, this is one of the most idiotic part of US patent law. US companies should be free to manufacture and ship any product to another country, irrespective of US patents.
The patents that should be applied are those in the other country at the time of import, using that country's laws.
There is no gain to the US in preventing US exports of products that are in violation of US patents. The result of this crazy law is what happened here: the products will be manufactured elsewhere and shipped to the end market country with much less revenue to US-based manufacturers (including the patent holders)
I don't think that you read the article. So, some quotes from the article that you might find helpful:
The legal dispute centered on whether the term "article of manufacture," on which design patent damages are calculated in U.S. patent law, should be interpreted as a finished product in its entirety, or merely a component in a complex product.
In court papers, Samsung, Apple and the U.S. government all agreed that the term could mean a component.
With all parties agreeing that the law could refer to a component, the court is unlikely to decide otherwise.
But Apple urged the Supreme Court to affirm the appeals court's ruling because Samsung presented no evidence that the article of manufacture in this case was anything less than its entire smartphone as sold. Samsung, meanwhile, said that it did not have to present such evidence.
In other words, the appeal was on whether Samsung was required to present evidence that the disputed technology was a component or the whole thing.
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I think that you are wrong about this.
It can take decades to get a green card, but once you have a green card, it's just 5 years residence in the USA required before you can apply for citizenship. I don't think that the time to get US citizenship is particularly dependent on your country of origin, or current citizenship.
Depending on who you are, or perhaps what day of the week you apply, you may find that the FBI takes more time to approve your application for citizenship. My wife's application went through in 6 months. Mine took 18 months. We come from the same country and applied for citizenship on the same day.
Depending on who you are talking about, good luck with that. The distribution that will matter in the future are the electrical grids. The companies that run the grids tend to be heavily regulated, so things probably won't change too much for them.
The companies with expertise in moving oil, natural gas and coal? That expertise isn't going to matter so much as fossil fuels become less important.
Also, for the company to buy back its own shares requires cash, and that has a cost which will reduce the amount of money available to pay dividends or reinvest.
That's a great explanation except that, you know the value of their shares has gone down. This affects shareholders, which includes executives, who want to sell and turn their shares into cash at some time in the future. They will get less cash.
When there are more sellers than buyers, the price goes down.
If a company buys its own stock to prop up the price, that company runs the risk of running out of cash. Lower stock prices make it more difficult to raise cash.
Also, the execs own lots of stock. When the price goes down, their own finances suffer.
Comcast's billing systems are clearly designed to overcharge.
I recently returned a rented cable modem because I bought my own. I can log into Comcast's account page and look at "Devices" and the rented modem is no longer there.
Yet they still billed me for the rented modem. How can their systems know that I don't have the modem, yet continue to charge me for it?
I expect that, if challenged, they would claim that there are two separate systems that don't interact properly and their agent simply did not do his job when I returned the equipment, but why maintain two systems? Why not make them interact better? Probably because mistakes like this almost always work in Comcast's favor, so they have an incentive to not fix the problem.
Someone has taken a decision to not fix a problem that screws up frequently and almost always benefits Comcast. Design can be implemented through concious inaction as well as action. After all, fixing the problem would improve productivity.
And everyone would be free to ignore those orders, because neither has the authority to issue them. Your "correction" is just mental masturbation.
Of course one wind farm is small in comparison to the total investment in old technologies, idiot. It's not a useful comparison. What if I compared one coal plant against the total investments in renewable energy?
In reality, China is making huge investments in renewable energy.
One of the books by Randall Munroe?
Which group of people is in the best position to "influence" the jury? How many members of the jury need to be "influenced"?
There was another case where there was video of someone in handcuffs in an interview room being beaten by a policeman, but the policeman was acquitted.
To be strictly correct, the election hasn't yet taken place. No one has voted for Trump.
The actual vote takes place around December 19.
The anti-renewable energy crowd don't understand this critical point: electricity is fungible. If they reduce demand for dirty power, it really doesn't matter which coal-powered generator shuts down.
It's not as simple as that. If you can force the value of coal down, then less will be extracted because some pits will not be economically viable. Ultimately, a new equilibrium will develop, which probably involves less coal being burned.
Solar doesn't necessarily need battery backup, although this does make it more useful. In large parts of the world, demand for electricity is highest when the sun is shining.
We are at an early stage and recycling is not important yet, but it will. There are too many materials used in batteries for it not to become viable to recycle in the future.
As for your comment about birds, that's out of date. The newest (and largest) turbines don't have anything like the same kill rate.
The problem with CNG is that its extraction is not without environmental cost and there is a limited supply. Now I do realize that the time when fossil fuels will run out keeps being delayed. I think that when I was in school, decades ago, they were expecting oil to run out around 2025.
Linking to your own blog does not provide any support for the false narrative that you are pushing.
The question was not about the Sisters paying for abortions. It was about the Sisters filling in a form stating that they would not provide cover for abortions, so that the government could pay for those abortions.
All of your assumptions are wrong.
Also, your logic fails badly.
All that is necessary is to let the laundry build up until there is a complete load and then run it that night. In your scenario, there is some need to wait until the laundry has built up to require multiple loads. OK, you might need to have a few extra clothes (one day's extra) if the loads build up so that you need to run different types of loads on the same day.
There is no difference in this process if there is one person in the household or multiple. In fact, it is probably easier with multiple people in the household.
I suspect that the concept of "laundry day" has more to do with other scheduling issues than build up of dirty laundry.
But, go ahead, making up your wrong assumptions. Progress lies in the other direction, but you probably don't care.
Remember, that the occasional time the washer is run during the day doesn't invalidate the idea. The goal is shifting use of as much electricity as possible to night use and it's not a failure if some electricity is used during the day.
Perfection is the enemy of progress as well as the enemy of good
How often do you have to run more than one wash load in a day?
Most of the time, one wash per night would serve. The occasional times you need to run more than one wash in a day, just run one during daytime.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
You are only a few decades behind the times.
It's been common for decades in the UK for appliances to have delay timers. In the USA, appliances with delay timers are available.
In California, you can get better electricity rates if you hook up your AC controller to a service which will turn it off for some time when demand peaks.
In the UK, they have house heating systems that store heat at night and release it during the day. Again, these have been available for decades. Gas provides a cheaper energy source, so this type of heating is usually only found in houses that don't have mains gas connections.
Because, obviously, there is no renewable energy in Ireland
Idiot.
You are the fanatic. you are the one who needs education.
You are wrong. The idea that wind and solar never pay back is just one of the fossil fuel lobby's lies about renewables. The idea that wind and solar don't provide cost-effective sources of energy is ridiculous. Yes, it's taken some time to get there, but we have arrived. Coal is dying because it's too expensive.
I hope the Koch brothers pay you well for pushing their agenda with your propaganda. Otherwise, you really are wasting your time.
Wrong:
There are basically 3 grids in the USA: Western, Eastern and Texas.
Once electricity is in the grid, it is fungible.
It doesn't matter where you displace the fossil fuel generation with renewable sources, it only matters that the fossil fuel generation is displaced.
IMHO, this is one of the most idiotic part of US patent law. US companies should be free to manufacture and ship any product to another country, irrespective of US patents.
The patents that should be applied are those in the other country at the time of import, using that country's laws.
There is no gain to the US in preventing US exports of products that are in violation of US patents. The result of this crazy law is what happened here: the products will be manufactured elsewhere and shipped to the end market country with much less revenue to US-based manufacturers (including the patent holders)
I don't think that you read the article. So, some quotes from the article that you might find helpful:
With all parties agreeing that the law could refer to a component, the court is unlikely to decide otherwise.
In other words, the appeal was on whether Samsung was required to present evidence that the disputed technology was a component or the whole thing.
And then, we will need a pre-pre-checkin security checkpoint. And then we'll need a .....