While Bartering is still considered taxable income it is very very hard to prove, and it is harder still to get a piece of.(you can't just mail the IRS a leg of Lamb and call it good).
It took until the 1930's for radio transmissions of decent power. More modern transmissions are digital and more directed. Our radio shell will be actually getting smaller.
And how many people are employeed to pat down each passenger now? How many machines are in place that cost $500,000 each that aren't being maintained properly and emitting more xray than they are spec'd at?
For each scanner you can keep 5 people employed for a year. plus you have to have the guards anyways you might as well have them do something useful other than feel people up with the back of their hands.
That's only because we are hiding the true accounting books from the politicians.
The Baby boomer generation basically took a second and third mortgage out, maxed out hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit cards, and now are demanding that their kids pay them for the privilege of being raised by them.
It will take 30 years to fix our current financial problems mostly because we have to wait for those people to die off.
How about dealing with the real problems we face instead of ignoring them until they fail.
Or maybe I am being too optimistic about the next 20 years. We are entering an era when our parents spent all the money they had supposedly saved, took extra a second and third mortgage on everything and now what to retire and leave us with all the bills, and demand that we pay them the money they spent earlier.
The thing is the only body US troops took out of the compound was Bin Laden's. Every other survivor, was left behind for the pakistani's. They are the ones saying yes Bin Laden was present, and yes he was dragged out with holes in his head.
What you said happens during large sporting events, where the breaks in the game means a sudden increase in snacks being gathered.
Of course your right. The real solution to our power problems isn't wind or solar or tidal, but a decent high density high energy storage system in every home. Something like 10-20 times that of the best batteries in the world. That way solar and wind can augment the power company and level out the entire grid.
No the Electric company looks for unbalanced loads and determines if there is a problem. The people who got raided may not of been using drugs but I would be willing to bet they were stealing electricity.
People who grow pot in their house tend not to be overly intelligent individuals. They run one circuit from the panel to power the lights. This causes a load imbalance that is noticeable from the transformer. An hour worth of checking off all home meters off of said transformer finds the guilty party.
It is also how many people steal electricity. They only bridge one 120 volt line figuring it will be less noticeable than doing both. However it actually makes it more noticeable to those who maintain the lines.
Ultimately if your going to steal electricity in the USA for whatever reason, or grow illegal drugs, make sure you use only 240volt equipment. It shows up less on random power company line checks.
The Arab leagues is made of dictators and kings who demand absolute control. They rule through fear.
Fear only works so long in controlling a given population. people get tired of being afraid and fight back preferring death over dealing with a given dictator.
Right now the people after 30 years are tired of being afraid and are currently tossing their leaders out the door the best they can. Jordan is doing so by appeasing them, others are using force.
Britian is an excellent example of a King(or queen) appeasing the population over time granting more and more power to the people and have less themselves. In the last 1000 years they went from monarchy to figurehead monarchy with a parliament governing the population.
Piracy is and always will be an economic problem. Right now the pirates make more money easier than CEO's do in the USA.
Think about it work for 6 months get one or two hundred thousand dollars. you get to shoot guns lots of water and if you get surrounded you surrender peacefully they feed you then release you no harm no foul, no courts.
To stop Piracy you have to find where they come from and fix that economic mess. It is cheaper to pay them off so that is what is happening. Since governments take to long to fix the core problems Piracy won't go away and insurance companies will pay out billions before pushing governments to fix it properly.
Actually the iMonoliths will turn Jupiter into a second sun so the His royal Highness Steve Jobs can finally take off his black turtleneck while living in CA.
You do realize that turning the ship around is worthless right. They are billions of lightyears away and would take hundreds of thousands if not millions of years to get back.
They find a seed ship but it is being controlled with an alien race with superior weapons, who upon realizing that their race is gone go suicidal and blow up the seed ship.
So far the commander has had to suffocate one of his own people because he was trapped and dying slowly.
Don't pick on a show that you apparently haven't watched.
Solar and wind will never replace coal or nuclear.
Wind is far too inefficient (something like on average 25% of a given rating is actually produced) So 1MW are only really good for 250KW So to replace say a single nuclear plant you need several thousand wind turbines. Going bigger actually makes things worse. And the land and water areas required will make every cringe.
Direct solar is also horribly ineffeceint(20% for a given amount of space) and requires huge flat areas to work.
Solar Salt stands a decent chance, It still requires huge land areas however it can at least get up to decent MW levels.
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nope the Republicans finally realized that 75% of their voters are old farts and cutting their medicaid and medicare is basically political suicide.
It is easier to trim the TSA budget than that trim down the poorly implemented mostly socialized health care that we have now.
While Bartering is still considered taxable income it is very very hard to prove, and it is harder still to get a piece of.(you can't just mail the IRS a leg of Lamb and call it good).
It took until the 1930's for radio transmissions of decent power. More modern transmissions are digital and more directed. Our radio shell will be actually getting smaller.
you do realize there is a 30 light year sphere around earth of radio signals which point right back at us.
Check out the GE Vscan. A handheld ultra sound machine with built in display.
The real trick will be modifying the sensor head so that it can pick up variations, and simplifying the interface for identifying problem areas.
Then you just need a portable blood sampling device.
and it is found in locusts. the whole swarm/herd mentality suddenly makes sense.
And how many people are employeed to pat down each passenger now? How many machines are in place that cost $500,000 each that aren't being maintained properly and emitting more xray than they are spec'd at?
For each scanner you can keep 5 people employed for a year. plus you have to have the guards anyways you might as well have them do something useful other than feel people up with the back of their hands.
That's only because we are hiding the true accounting books from the politicians.
The Baby boomer generation basically took a second and third mortgage out, maxed out hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit cards, and now are demanding that their kids pay them for the privilege of being raised by them.
It will take 30 years to fix our current financial problems mostly because we have to wait for those people to die off.
My 7 year old mac mini runs those just fine, and if I bothered installing snow leopard I could run Safari 5.
Apple's planned obsolecene only matters 8-10 years down the line.
Flash is embedded into chrome by google. you can't remove it.
therefore the bug belongs to google chrome because in Chrome a flash is not just a plugin but an integrated piece.
How about dealing with the real problems we face instead of ignoring them until they fail.
Or maybe I am being too optimistic about the next 20 years. We are entering an era when our parents spent all the money they had supposedly saved, took extra a second and third mortgage on everything and now what to retire and leave us with all the bills, and demand that we pay them the money they spent earlier.
The thing is the only body US troops took out of the compound was Bin Laden's. Every other survivor, was left behind for the pakistani's. They are the ones saying yes Bin Laden was present, and yes he was dragged out with holes in his head.
If a photo produces satisfaction then you must only sit in your parents basement and download porn instead of making some yourself.
a picture would incite those who don't believe he is dead to do violence beyond of which they were going to try to do anyways.
Nothing good can come of releasing the photos.
What you said happens during large sporting events, where the breaks in the game means a sudden increase in snacks being gathered.
Of course your right. The real solution to our power problems isn't wind or solar or tidal, but a decent high density high energy storage system in every home. Something like 10-20 times that of the best batteries in the world. That way solar and wind can augment the power company and level out the entire grid.
Those who are growing dope in their homes are the same kind of person who sticks it to the man by not paying bills.
It is funny on how many drug dealers are not caught by Narcotic officers but for speeding, running lights, not paying bills, and other mudane stuff.
No the Electric company looks for unbalanced loads and determines if there is a problem. The people who got raided may not of been using drugs but I would be willing to bet they were stealing electricity.
People who grow pot in their house tend not to be overly intelligent individuals. They run one circuit from the panel to power the lights. This causes a load imbalance that is noticeable from the transformer. An hour worth of checking off all home meters off of said transformer finds the guilty party.
It is also how many people steal electricity. They only bridge one 120 volt line figuring it will be less noticeable than doing both. However it actually makes it more noticeable to those who maintain the lines.
Ultimately if your going to steal electricity in the USA for whatever reason, or grow illegal drugs, make sure you use only 240volt equipment. It shows up less on random power company line checks.
The Arab leagues is made of dictators and kings who demand absolute control. They rule through fear.
Fear only works so long in controlling a given population. people get tired of being afraid and fight back preferring death over dealing with a given dictator.
Right now the people after 30 years are tired of being afraid and are currently tossing their leaders out the door the best they can. Jordan is doing so by appeasing them, others are using force.
Britian is an excellent example of a King(or queen) appeasing the population over time granting more and more power to the people and have less themselves. In the last 1000 years they went from monarchy to figurehead monarchy with a parliament governing the population.
Piracy is and always will be an economic problem. Right now the pirates make more money easier than CEO's do in the USA.
Think about it work for 6 months get one or two hundred thousand dollars. you get to shoot guns lots of water and if you get surrounded you surrender peacefully they feed you then release you no harm no foul, no courts.
To stop Piracy you have to find where they come from and fix that economic mess. It is cheaper to pay them off so that is what is happening. Since governments take to long to fix the core problems Piracy won't go away and insurance companies will pay out billions before pushing governments to fix it properly.
Actually the iMonoliths will turn Jupiter into a second sun so the His royal Highness Steve Jobs can finally take off his black turtleneck while living in CA.
Ask Adobe. Flash requires direct hardware support in order to function. It is why Flash on Windows performance is faster than all other OS's combined.
You do realize that turning the ship around is worthless right. They are billions of lightyears away and would take hundreds of thousands if not millions of years to get back.
They find a seed ship but it is being controlled with an alien race with superior weapons, who upon realizing that their race is gone go suicidal and blow up the seed ship.
So far the commander has had to suffocate one of his own people because he was trapped and dying slowly.
Don't pick on a show that you apparently haven't watched.
an contract with verizon not to roll out FIOS so verizon can. however Verizon won't do it for many areas.
You should learn physics sometimes, and maybe a map.
the crash of flight 93 was spread out over an area of less than a mile. The miles part comes from people using bad maps near a town border.
This was throughly debunked 9.5 years ago. please try again.
Solar and wind will never replace coal or nuclear.
Wind is far too inefficient (something like on average 25% of a given rating is actually produced) So 1MW are only really good for 250KW So to replace say a single nuclear plant you need several thousand wind turbines. Going bigger actually makes things worse. And the land and water areas required will make every cringe.
Direct solar is also horribly ineffeceint(20% for a given amount of space) and requires huge flat areas to work.
Solar Salt stands a decent chance, It still requires huge land areas however it can at least get up to decent MW levels.