No one will actually cut spending. most of what the government spends money on isn't pork projects. It isn't entitlements. Sure the government might spend $50 billion on pork projects but out of trillions that is saying they went out to eat a lot.
The Social security is a ponzi scheme where they stole money out of for decades and now the bill is due so the politicians are still losing money that way.
The problem is the government cut taxes several times but they can't cut spending. So the wealthy got tax breaks but anyone earning less than $150,000 a year gets screwed.
Mit Rommeny pays less in taxes than someone earning $150,000 a year. the top 5% control something stupid like 90% of the income yet only pay taxes on 20% of that total. yet they bitch and moan they pay too much. but they only pay taxes on 20% of their income whereas if you are earning less than $250,000 then you are paying taxes on 100% of your income.
that is the problem. the trick is everyone in congress is in that group.
The problem is Predicting means using a computer and science where as forecasting especially weather is reaching into your ass and pulling out something. Seriously the closest weather forecasting comes at 5 days out is a rough Idea of temperature. maybe clouds if a big system is moving a big enough area.
At 48 hours out I expect weather forecasts to be about 50% correct but i still make plans the same
At 24 hours out it isn't to far off but they have trouble with more localised(county level) events.
at 1 hour out they are usually pretty spot on but then you can always look out the window yourself.
I run slashdot on the "very" old classic mode. not even the web2.0 mode that is now slashdot default but an even older version. Iknow when I am not logged in as I see the useless web 2.0 interface.
Not only is there huge amounts of wasted space on the sides, but even in the comment boxes. It is like the new mobile slashdot. You scroll and scroll and scroll just to go down 5 comments out of hundreds or thousands.
When you fix something try to figure out what is and isn't broken.
The voting system is broken you can now vote multiple times on the same poll.
For fun goto slashBI. talk about ugly, hard to read, confusing with no delineation between topics.
I really wish slashdot would fire the idiots who think up the new web layouts. none of them are worth my two cents let alone the tens of thousands of dollars they are being paid.
really? if that was true then why didn't people sue companies like GE in the 60's who were dumping thousands of pounds of chemical waste into public waterways?
Oh because little guys can not fight big corporations in court and win on a regular basis. they just don't have the cash for it. You need a bigger agency than the company in question to go after such things.
you do realize that 50% of all current trades last less than 100ms right? That is right folks 50% of the current volume is nothing but hot air. that is why the stock market has had 10-15% growth but the economy is barely doing 1-2%.
The fact this happened shouldn't surprise anyone. this is the problem of HFT.
Well duh. elop took a good brand. Stole and/or sold all the cash, good will and intelligence out. Shot it in the head and then raped the corpse a couple of times and sold the sloppy seconds to Ballmer who gobbled it up greedily.
I think someone needs to revoke my metaphor license for a while.
Blackberry had the business arena nailed. until the iphone came out. now the Iphone and android phones are killing blackberry in features, ease of use, and cost.
Businesses don't use blackberries much anymore. simply because they can't keep up.
no they aren't hugely wasteful. especially the Buran which didn't have the main engines mounted in it. The Buran died with the collapse of the soviet union.
Even the space shuttle put more people into space ever. Russian capsules have another 100 launches or so before they will come close to putting the number of people and equipment that the shuttles did.
Also no one other than the shuttle has gone EVA to repair large satellites.(the hubble repair missions) As they literally can not carry both the people and the equipment.
The waste of the space shuttle came from the fact that it was stripped after every flight had the engines gutted and rebuilt. It used expsensive and fragile tiles for a heat shield.
remove the main engines like Buran did and find a better heat shield. that is what it will take to make the shuttle better.
The shuttle also could do one thing that no other vehicle could do. Bring things home safely. Personally I wish the last shuttle mission was a mission to hubble to bring it back to earth. a fitting tribute the hubble would be permanent display in a museum. You can not do that with any other vehicle design.
RC aircraft have been around for 70 years. I saw a 1930 add for the equipment while going through an old magazine.
The difference between RC and drone is simple a drone is a very remotely piloted craft. where as an RC craft must be kept in visual range of the pilot. (ie a drone is flown miles from the pilot)
No mass isn't the gravitational source by itself. There is another link between the two. Yes the higher the mass the higher the gravity. but this map shows you can get fluctuations in gravity's acceleration not only based on altitude as expected, but densities or other sources.
As a mountain that is 7,000' shorter than everest has less gravitational pull. Look at that map. areas that are volcanic have greater gravitational pull.
Something else is affected the expected numbers. density of the mantle is a good candidate.
Actually the opposite is true. The more mass you have between the gravity source and your self the lower the gravitational pull is.
Though why Everest has higher gravity than a mountain in Peru is odd. Unless the lost city of gold is under that mountain.
The bigger the object the greater the gravitational field. However the more mass you have between yourself and said field point"source" the lower the effects of gravity you feel.
the only reason why she is getting floated out is because cutting her up as she sits would trash the local environment completely. just sitting as she is is doing enough damage.
well duh that is exactly what is going on. thankfully Vladamir Putin Romanov stole the limelight.
The USA and more importantly it;s politicians need to understand the USA is no longer the center of the world. We can no longer afford to police the world as it is bankrupting us. Let someone else do it for a while, and when things go to shit (and they will) people will look to the USA with need and understanding that keeping the world stable sucks.
Personally I also say let iran have nuclear weapons. The Ayatollah is stupid enough to use them, but smart enough to realize attacking Isreal with them is stupid. Instead he will go after the true threats to him and force the other Islamic countries to kneel to him as their leader. He will use those weapons on Muslims who don't kneel before him.
while true. the thing is NASA is a government organization. it is ruled by bureaucracy and politicians , which means you need at least 3 managers, and one over sight person per 5 regular employees.
Now considering NASA was doing all of Apollo by hand on a computer that was less advanced than a TI-83 (and that was ground side) then it makes sense.
The trick is even with the shuttles NASA wasn't given the funding to cut employees by using automation. the Politicians refused it as it was pork for their districts.
Doesn't completely work. a small percentage of people can do that.
the problem becomes a lot of people just are not creative enough to do such things.
If I didn't have to work I know what i would do. I have a list. So does my sister. But we both have to work. the thing is most people don't have enough personal drive to do something they are not forced to do.
A small percentage would improve themselves by learning new things exploring new concepts, etc. The majority however would do nothing but become restless, and that would lead slowly to fighting each other. Humans need to do something that keeps there minds and bodies occupied.
However robots can't do engineering. Robots can't think. AI is a pipe dream for at least the next century. We don't really understand how our own minds work. Computers are binary. Humans brains are at least trinary. Until a computer can do maybe then true ai is impossible.
um that's is just it this isn't being used for law enforcement. At least there are no cases where it is known that this data was used by law enforcement.
Knowing NYDOT I would say law enforcement and every other agency probably didn't even know this data was being collected for traffic monitoring.
Every EZPass I have seen comes with a little RFID resistant bag(poly bag with metal foil lining the inside) to store the unit when not in use.(That makes 6 total units at least)
Sure the average person probably doesn't remove the unit from the windshield ever. I know I don't anymore. but I did when i first got the unit.
lastly NYDOT can't issue traffic fines againist ezpass transponders. they tried a couple of times when the system first came out issuing speed tickets to who took drove 90 miles in an hour. but those were quickly overturned in court. As EZpass registered to cars and speed/ driving tickets are issued to Drivers.
a minor difference but if you let someone else drive your car you are not liable for driving tickets they generate.
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Here is the trick.
No one will actually cut spending. most of what the government spends money on isn't pork projects. It isn't entitlements. Sure the government might spend $50 billion on pork projects but out of trillions that is saying they went out to eat a lot.
The Social security is a ponzi scheme where they stole money out of for decades and now the bill is due so the politicians are still losing money that way.
The problem is the government cut taxes several times but they can't cut spending. So the wealthy got tax breaks but anyone earning less than $150,000 a year gets screwed.
Mit Rommeny pays less in taxes than someone earning $150,000 a year. the top 5% control something stupid like 90% of the income yet only pay taxes on 20% of that total. yet they bitch and moan they pay too much. but they only pay taxes on 20% of their income whereas if you are earning less than $250,000 then you are paying taxes on 100% of your income.
that is the problem. the trick is everyone in congress is in that group.
The problem is Predicting means using a computer and science where as forecasting especially weather is reaching into your ass and pulling out something. Seriously the closest weather forecasting comes at 5 days out is a rough Idea of temperature. maybe clouds if a big system is moving a big enough area.
At 48 hours out I expect weather forecasts to be about 50% correct but i still make plans the same
At 24 hours out it isn't to far off but they have trouble with more localised(county level) events.
at 1 hour out they are usually pretty spot on but then you can always look out the window yourself.
I run slashdot on the "very" old classic mode. not even the web2.0 mode that is now slashdot default but an even older version. Iknow when I am not logged in as I see the useless web 2.0 interface.
Not only is there huge amounts of wasted space on the sides, but even in the comment boxes. It is like the new mobile slashdot. You scroll and scroll and scroll just to go down 5 comments out of hundreds or thousands.
When you fix something try to figure out what is and isn't broken.
The voting system is broken you can now vote multiple times on the same poll.
For fun goto slashBI. talk about ugly, hard to read, confusing with no delineation between topics.
I really wish slashdot would fire the idiots who think up the new web layouts. none of them are worth my two cents let alone the tens of thousands of dollars they are being paid.
really? if that was true then why didn't people sue companies like GE in the 60's who were dumping thousands of pounds of chemical waste into public waterways?
Oh because little guys can not fight big corporations in court and win on a regular basis. they just don't have the cash for it. You need a bigger agency than the company in question to go after such things.
WE don't have high energy portable power sources.
We really need to figure out an iron many style reactor to power the next generation of cool toys that we can dream but not really use.
you do realize that 50% of all current trades last less than 100ms right? That is right folks 50% of the current volume is nothing but hot air. that is why the stock market has had 10-15% growth but the economy is barely doing 1-2%.
The fact this happened shouldn't surprise anyone. this is the problem of HFT.
Well duh. elop took a good brand. Stole and/or sold all the cash, good will and intelligence out. Shot it in the head and then raped the corpse a couple of times and sold the sloppy seconds to Ballmer who gobbled it up greedily.
I think someone needs to revoke my metaphor license for a while.
True but
Canada Population 35 Million
Texas Population 26 Million
Great Britain Population 63 Million.
Population density also counts.
It is why china and India, once they get their populations up to speed will be the places to worry about.
on the flip side the same reason why they are so populaous will take them that much longer to get up to speed.
um 1.3 billion verses .3 billion
where is that order of magnitude again?
Blackberry had the business arena nailed. until the iphone came out. now the Iphone and android phones are killing blackberry in features, ease of use, and cost.
Businesses don't use blackberries much anymore. simply because they can't keep up.
Nope just ego.
Man is created in the image of God. God has two legs so does man.
which is even worse.
who puts child production/care next to waste treatement plants?
Granted there aren't many option in two legged beings.
nope not a theocracy.
ALL HAIL TSAR PUTIN. Heir to the Romanav's.
He even has secret palaces being built.
no they aren't hugely wasteful. especially the Buran which didn't have the main engines mounted in it. The Buran died with the collapse of the soviet union.
Even the space shuttle put more people into space ever. Russian capsules have another 100 launches or so before they will come close to putting the number of people and equipment that the shuttles did.
Also no one other than the shuttle has gone EVA to repair large satellites.(the hubble repair missions) As they literally can not carry both the people and the equipment.
The waste of the space shuttle came from the fact that it was stripped after every flight had the engines gutted and rebuilt. It used expsensive and fragile tiles for a heat shield.
remove the main engines like Buran did and find a better heat shield. that is what it will take to make the shuttle better.
The shuttle also could do one thing that no other vehicle could do. Bring things home safely. Personally I wish the last shuttle mission was a mission to hubble to bring it back to earth. a fitting tribute the hubble would be permanent display in a museum. You can not do that with any other vehicle design.
Distance from the pilot is a huge factor. RC the pilot loses control at 1/4 mile or so depending eye sight.
Drone's can be piloted around the world.
Drone can climb 1000's of feet into the air RC planes lose visual contact and thus control beyond 1-2 thousand.
If you need further help. Try learning the difference between VFR and IFR
RC aircraft have been around for 70 years. I saw a 1930 add for the equipment while going through an old magazine.
The difference between RC and drone is simple a drone is a very remotely piloted craft. where as an RC craft must be kept in visual range of the pilot. (ie a drone is flown miles from the pilot)
No mass isn't the gravitational source by itself. There is another link between the two. Yes the higher the mass the higher the gravity. but this map shows you can get fluctuations in gravity's acceleration not only based on altitude as expected, but densities or other sources.
As a mountain that is 7,000' shorter than everest has less gravitational pull. Look at that map. areas that are volcanic have greater gravitational pull.
Something else is affected the expected numbers. density of the mantle is a good candidate.
The survey shows that is wrong. Everest has greater gravity acceleration than a mountain 7,000 ' shorter.
Actually the opposite is true. The more mass you have between the gravity source and your self the lower the gravitational pull is.
Though why Everest has higher gravity than a mountain in Peru is odd. Unless the lost city of gold is under that mountain.
The bigger the object the greater the gravitational field. However the more mass you have between yourself and said field point"source" the lower the effects of gravity you feel.
this is it exactly.
the only reason why she is getting floated out is because cutting her up as she sits would trash the local environment completely. just sitting as she is is doing enough damage.
well duh that is exactly what is going on. thankfully Vladamir Putin Romanov stole the limelight.
The USA and more importantly it;s politicians need to understand the USA is no longer the center of the world. We can no longer afford to police the world as it is bankrupting us. Let someone else do it for a while, and when things go to shit (and they will) people will look to the USA with need and understanding that keeping the world stable sucks.
Personally I also say let iran have nuclear weapons. The Ayatollah is stupid enough to use them, but smart enough to realize attacking Isreal with them is stupid. Instead he will go after the true threats to him and force the other Islamic countries to kneel to him as their leader. He will use those weapons on Muslims who don't kneel before him.
while true. the thing is NASA is a government organization. it is ruled by bureaucracy and politicians , which means you need at least 3 managers, and one over sight person per 5 regular employees.
Now considering NASA was doing all of Apollo by hand on a computer that was less advanced than a TI-83 (and that was ground side) then it makes sense.
The trick is even with the shuttles NASA wasn't given the funding to cut employees by using automation. the Politicians refused it as it was pork for their districts.
Doesn't completely work. a small percentage of people can do that.
the problem becomes a lot of people just are not creative enough to do such things.
If I didn't have to work I know what i would do. I have a list. So does my sister. But we both have to work. the thing is most people don't have enough personal drive to do something they are not forced to do.
What would people do without jobs?
A small percentage would improve themselves by learning new things exploring new concepts, etc. The majority however would do nothing but become restless, and that would lead slowly to fighting each other. Humans need to do something that keeps there minds and bodies occupied.
However robots can't do engineering. Robots can't think. AI is a pipe dream for at least the next century. We don't really understand how our own minds work. Computers are binary. Humans brains are at least trinary. Until a computer can do maybe then true ai is impossible.
um that's is just it this isn't being used for law enforcement. At least there are no cases where it is known that this data was used by law enforcement.
Knowing NYDOT I would say law enforcement and every other agency probably didn't even know this data was being collected for traffic monitoring.
Every EZPass I have seen comes with a little RFID resistant bag(poly bag with metal foil lining the inside) to store the unit when not in use.(That makes 6 total units at least)
Sure the average person probably doesn't remove the unit from the windshield ever. I know I don't anymore. but I did when i first got the unit.
lastly NYDOT can't issue traffic fines againist ezpass transponders. they tried a couple of times when the system first came out issuing speed tickets to who took drove 90 miles in an hour. but those were quickly overturned in court. As EZpass registered to cars and speed/ driving tickets are issued to Drivers.
a minor difference but if you let someone else drive your car you are not liable for driving tickets they generate.