So the GoP is coming across as being in favor of regulation that supports industry against citizens, but not regulation that supports citizens against industry.
The GOP is in favor of regulation that supports businesses against the citizen and The GOP is in favor of deregulation that supports businesses against the citizen.
When GOP interests and the Democratic Party's interests align, the citizens generally get the short end of the stick.
There are plenty of studies (many from Utah) that have been done on the subject and they all say the same thing:
Canned goods last more or less forever if they're stored below 70 degrees f, and out of direct sunlight. Dry packaged goods, under the same conditions + low humidity, can last at least 20 years and still have enough nutrition to keep you alive. They won't taste very good and the vitamins will break down, but decade(s) old dry food can keep you alive.
The won on the firmness of their convictions. When you're debating, it doesn't matter how right or wrong you are, only your ability to project confidence in your beliefs.
My rar client, however, I can't convince to unpack half a file.
If you open up the full WinRar window (instead of right-clicking and choosing 'extract'), there is an option to "keep broken files" when you hit the "extract to" button.
Whenever I have a bad archive, I pull out the full file and use bittorrent to fix the broken section.
Does Iran get to extradite and prosecute Hollywood film companies and/or their execs for depicting women not covered by hijabs and/or burqas?
Iran doesn't get to extradite anyone from the USA, but they can certainly prosecute anyone they want in absentia.
If by "regulation" you mean laws and regulations to prevent fraud/cheating/stealing and to enforce legal contracts and negate illegal or unconscionable contracts, then I agree.
If you mean the type of intrusive and byzantine laws and regulations that exist now that attempt to "shape" and "steer" the market according to some politician's or bureaucrat's fantasies, then I AM arguing against regulation, regardless of your opinions either way.
I'm not sure how to even go about addressing this. I feel like you're so off base that you're not even wrong. All those laws and regs against fraud started out as an "attempt to "shape" and "steer" the market according to some politician's or bureaucrat's fantasies"
I see and understand your larger point about extending jurisdiction to overseas corporations, but the fact is that the Irish company accepted the jurisdiction of a US regulator in 2005.... Which suggests that your point of view is not terribly useful for looking at the situation or any others like it.
Until they can have dual SIM cards and run on two networks at the same time,
Dual sim phones have existed for the better part of a decade, but never took off in America.
The reason dual and tri sim phones took off overseas is that, in many countries, callling between networks is more expensive than staying in-network. So everyone just gets multiple phone lines in order to keep in touch with their friends on different networks.
/The first quad sim phone came out in 2010, but there aren't hundreds of models like there are with triple sim phones.
Next time try reading to the end of TFA, where they mention that the Irish company, founded by an Irishman, with a HQ in Dublin, had settled the exact same charges (with the CFTC) in 2005.
Since it's The Washington Post, they buried the lead at the very very end of TFA.
Monday's complaint includes charges that TEN violated that earlier settlement. The company used Intrade to offer illegal options including on the future prices of gold, changes in the unemployment rate and a measure of U.S. economic output, the complaint said. It said TEN failed to provide the pop-up notices mandated in the 2005 order.
Intertrade had already been charged with the exact same offense, had agreed to stop doing so, but didn't. Somehow this is an issue with intrusive, authoritarian governments?
/And I don't think anyone is arguing that commodities futures should not be regulated, because they would be wrong.
Police policy means shit if the officers are not trained appropriately. http://www.photographyisnotacrime.com/ is a good clearinghouse for stories about police & private securitywho don't know how to do their jobs.
Your problem is that the Democrats have been telling you that the Bush tax cuts were a "rich thing" for so long that you now believe it. The Bush tax cuts were pretty much across the board, rich, poor, middle class.. everyone got a cut.
The "across the board" cuts were not distributed equally. When times were good, the 2% got outsized tax cuts. Now that times are bad, they should get outsized tax increases.
The facts and math are fairly straightforward. The only thing that isn't straightforward is the Republican Party's rearguard action to maintain a link between tax cuts for the 2% to cuts for the 98%.
How do you plan to separate the stream/oil droplet mixture? Do simple experiment: shake a pint of cooking oil and water together. How long did they take to separate back out? 1 hour to get to 95%? Now try it at high temperatures: you are talking days unless you have a serious refrigeration unit in your engine.
Oil and water separation is a solved problem.
"How" depends on the volume of emulsion, the available space and power. Maybe they'll use a centrifuge. Maybe electrostatic separation. Maybe they'll heat the oil with a peltier and use the cool side as "a serious refrigeration unit".
I'm not an engineer and even if I was, TFA doesn't provide enough information to 100% answer your question. But like I said, it's a solved problem.
seems stupid, though: we have good heat-exchangers that don't require mixing the two fluids. Just coiled metal pipes (add fins if needed) would do the trick.
The point of mixing the fluids is that you cannot otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water. Not to mention that it's really hard to do what you're suggesting inside the cylinder
There is zero reason to mix the fluids and then add a separator (which is a real pain in the ass given the oil is in a closed cycle.)
The whole point of their technique is that they create steam inside the strongest part of an engine. As it turns out, oil and water will try to separate on their own, which makes this a less than complicated issue.
They seem to carefully avoid mentioning it, but most oils when preheated to 700 degrees F (holy cow) and atomized in air will burn pretty well. Probably the water addition is to prevent the cylinder walls from melting, or more likely prevent them from looking like a well seasoned cast iron pan (which would have serious issues WRT cylinder rings)
I don't think you read the article carefully enough. 1. hot oil + water = instant steam 2. steam pushes the piston down 3. the oil + steam get recycled 4. GO TO 1
The only input is solar energy to heat the oil. The rest of the system works on a closed loop.
I know the Israelian lobby is very powerful in the states and there goes a lot of money round, but it baffles me that there are not that many critical voices within the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street The J-Street lobbyists have had endless shit heaped upon them for taking moderate positions on most issues and the Israeli government detests the idea of a Pro-Israel lobbying group that is a strong advocate for a two-state solution.
The truth is, inside Israel there is a strong and meaningful conversation about all these issues, but they hate hate hate it when anyone outside the country advocates anything other than the party line.
the current practice of democrat operatives infiltrating republican fund raisers and video or audio taping the strategies then releasing what they think might be damaging to the public.
I mean what is the difference other then technical when someone pretends to be a donor in order to gather campaign information that is secrete or embarrassing and breaking into an office for the same?
First off, "damaging" and "embarrassing" are not crimes. I just thought I'd point this out since you mentioned the idea more than once. And if information is being freely given to donors, then it certainly isn't secret.
Secondly, if you really don't understand the practical difference between trespassing and theft, then your opinion on anyone's crimes is probably less than insightful.
Lastly, I assume you were referring to Romney's comments about 47% of Americans being unwilling to take personal responsibility for their lives. That wasn't a strategy, it was the kind of unfounded nonsense that plutocrats tell each other when they think the hoi polloi aren't listening.
If a student is absent more than X days, the school is denied funding for that student (and it's easier ot just expel them and wipe their hands clean than anything).
They schools also play games where students get transferred to another school, so that they don't count on the rolls and the clock is reset for the second school.
There's a genuine problem here in that a) it's their fiduciary duty of corporations to maximise profit at all costs,
[Citation Needed]
I wonder how your idea fits with the role of a charity? Their role is to make money, so they can turn around and spend it. The idea that companies have to maximise profits is a stupid and short sighted theory that has grabbed hold of the public consciousness.
If the government truly intended for companies to pay 21% tax on their revenues they would not have written deductions into the tax law for companies to take.
If you dig through the Google News archive, you'll find articles on the subject going back a few years. Governments have become progressively less and less tolerant of the practice and it looks like they're finally ready to crack down. Nothing like a prolonged economic recession to finally get the tax man chasing after the big bucks.
The problem is that men are in charge of the implementation and that's a common problem across the entire world.
The problem is that Saudi Arabia is home to a particularly shitty and fundamentalist sect of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism or Salafism.
For example: the Taliban in Afghanistan aren't/weren't Wahhabis/Salafis, but they were educated in Pakistan, through Saudi funded schools pushing Wahhabi/Salafi interpretations of Islam.
Much of the shit show in the Middle East can be tied one way or another to the virulent fundamentalism rooted in Saudi Arabia. /Except for Iran, which is a different branch of Islam, which is why all their Sunni neighbors hate them. //Iran is mostly the USA's fault for repeatedly overthrowing the government and pissing off the Iranians.
We live in a world of finite workers and resources, and thus the abstraction of that, which we call money, is an important limiting factor on any task, no matter what the risk or rewards.
I would disagree. The problem is that the utility's liability is not high enough to motivate them to spend money fixing the problems.
As a thought experiment: Imagine that the city told the gas utility that there are going to be fines of $1 million per leak (for >3,300 leaks). Suddenly, the limiting factor is time and labor, not money, because fixing the problem is cheaper than paying the fines.
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So the GoP is coming across as being in favor of regulation that supports industry against citizens, but not regulation that supports citizens against industry.
The GOP is in favor of regulation that supports businesses against the citizen and
The GOP is in favor of deregulation that supports businesses against the citizen.
When GOP interests and the Democratic Party's interests align, the citizens generally get the short end of the stick.
There are plenty of studies (many from Utah) that have been done on the subject and they all say the same thing:
Canned goods last more or less forever if they're stored below 70 degrees f, and out of direct sunlight.
Dry packaged goods, under the same conditions + low humidity, can last at least 20 years and still have enough nutrition to keep you alive.
They won't taste very good and the vitamins will break down, but decade(s) old dry food can keep you alive.
How could they have won? They have 0 evidence.
The won on the firmness of their convictions.
When you're debating, it doesn't matter how right or wrong you are, only your ability to project confidence in your beliefs.
My rar client, however, I can't convince to unpack half a file.
If you open up the full WinRar window (instead of right-clicking and choosing 'extract'), there is an option to "keep broken files" when you hit the "extract to" button.
Whenever I have a bad archive, I pull out the full file and use bittorrent to fix the broken section.
It must be IT's fault.
Obviously you've never felt horror at the sound of a backhoe firing up.
Here's a website with some numbers so you can make a proper comparison between the cost of silicon and gold: http://pvinsights.com/
Semiconductor grade polysilicon = PV Grade Poly Silicon
Does Iran get to extradite and prosecute Hollywood film companies and/or their execs for depicting women not covered by hijabs and/or burqas?
Iran doesn't get to extradite anyone from the USA, but they can certainly prosecute anyone they want in absentia.
If by "regulation" you mean laws and regulations to prevent fraud/cheating/stealing and to enforce legal contracts and negate illegal or unconscionable contracts, then I agree.
If you mean the type of intrusive and byzantine laws and regulations that exist now that attempt to "shape" and "steer" the market according to some politician's or bureaucrat's fantasies, then I AM arguing against regulation, regardless of your opinions either way.
I'm not sure how to even go about addressing this. I feel like you're so off base that you're not even wrong.
All those laws and regs against fraud started out as an "attempt to "shape" and "steer" the market according to some politician's or bureaucrat's fantasies"
I see and understand your larger point about extending jurisdiction to overseas corporations,
but the fact is that the Irish company accepted the jurisdiction of a US regulator in 2005....
Which suggests that your point of view is not terribly useful for looking at the situation or any others like it.
Until they can have dual SIM cards and run on two networks at the same time,
Dual sim phones have existed for the better part of a decade, but never took off in America.
The reason dual and tri sim phones took off overseas is that, in many countries, callling between networks is more expensive than staying in-network.
So everyone just gets multiple phone lines in order to keep in touch with their friends on different networks.
/The first quad sim phone came out in 2010, but there aren't hundreds of models like there are with triple sim phones.
There is no guilt.
[Citation Needed]
The available evidence suggests otherwise: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/drone-pilot-ptsd/
Considering these facts,
Next time try reading to the end of TFA, where they mention that the Irish company, founded by an Irishman, with a HQ in Dublin, had settled the exact same charges (with the CFTC) in 2005.
Awkward.
Since it's The Washington Post, they buried the lead at the very very end of TFA.
Monday's complaint includes charges that TEN violated that earlier settlement. The company used Intrade to offer illegal options including on the future prices of gold, changes in the unemployment rate and a measure of U.S. economic output, the complaint said. It said TEN failed to provide the pop-up notices mandated in the 2005 order.
Intertrade had already been charged with the exact same offense, had agreed to stop doing so, but didn't.
Somehow this is an issue with intrusive, authoritarian governments?
/And I don't think anyone is arguing that commodities futures should not be regulated, because they would be wrong.
They didn't charge this guy with recording: http://www.infowars.com/california-man-jailed-four-days-for-recording-cops/
Instead it was "resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer" and not having reflectors on his bicycle pedals.
Police policy means shit if the officers are not trained appropriately.
http://www.photographyisnotacrime.com/ is a good clearinghouse for stories about police & private securitywho don't know how to do their jobs.
Your problem is that the Democrats have been telling you that the Bush tax cuts were a "rich thing" for so long that you now believe it. The Bush tax cuts were pretty much across the board, rich, poor, middle class.. everyone got a cut.
The "across the board" cuts were not distributed equally.
When times were good, the 2% got outsized tax cuts.
Now that times are bad, they should get outsized tax increases.
The facts and math are fairly straightforward.
The only thing that isn't straightforward is the Republican Party's rearguard action to maintain a link between tax cuts for the 2% to cuts for the 98%.
Once we use it all up, fossil fuel emissions will be zero.
There will be a very brief period where all the forests and peat moss get turned into firewood.
Only then will fossil fuel emissions will be zero.
How do you plan to separate the stream/oil droplet mixture? Do simple experiment: shake a pint of cooking oil and water together. How long did they take to separate back out? 1 hour to get to 95%? Now try it at high temperatures: you are talking days unless you have a serious refrigeration unit in your engine.
Oil and water separation is a solved problem.
"How" depends on the volume of emulsion, the available space and power.
Maybe they'll use a centrifuge. Maybe electrostatic separation.
Maybe they'll heat the oil with a peltier and use the cool side as "a serious refrigeration unit".
I'm not an engineer and even if I was, TFA doesn't provide enough information to 100% answer your question.
But like I said, it's a solved problem.
seems stupid, though: we have good heat-exchangers that don't require mixing the two fluids. Just coiled metal pipes (add fins if needed) would do the trick.
The point of mixing the fluids is that you cannot otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water.
Not to mention that it's really hard to do what you're suggesting inside the cylinder
There is zero reason to mix the fluids and then add a separator (which is a real pain in the ass given the oil is in a closed cycle.)
The whole point of their technique is that they create steam inside the strongest part of an engine.
As it turns out, oil and water will try to separate on their own, which makes this a less than complicated issue.
They seem to carefully avoid mentioning it, but most oils when preheated to 700 degrees F (holy cow) and atomized in air will burn pretty well. Probably the water addition is to prevent the cylinder walls from melting, or more likely prevent them from looking like a well seasoned cast iron pan (which would have serious issues WRT cylinder rings)
I don't think you read the article carefully enough.
1. hot oil + water = instant steam
2. steam pushes the piston down
3. the oil + steam get recycled
4. GO TO 1
The only input is solar energy to heat the oil.
The rest of the system works on a closed loop.
I know the Israelian lobby is very powerful in the states and there goes a lot of money round, but it baffles me that there are not that many critical voices within the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street
The J-Street lobbyists have had endless shit heaped upon them for taking moderate positions on most issues and
the Israeli government detests the idea of a Pro-Israel lobbying group that is a strong advocate for a two-state solution.
The truth is, inside Israel there is a strong and meaningful conversation about all these issues,
but they hate hate hate it when anyone outside the country advocates anything other than the party line.
the current practice of democrat operatives infiltrating republican fund raisers and video or audio taping the strategies then releasing what they think might be damaging to the public.
I mean what is the difference other then technical when someone pretends to be a donor in order to gather campaign information that is secrete or embarrassing and breaking into an office for the same?
First off, "damaging" and "embarrassing" are not crimes.
I just thought I'd point this out since you mentioned the idea more than once.
And if information is being freely given to donors, then it certainly isn't secret.
Secondly, if you really don't understand the practical difference between trespassing and theft, then your opinion on anyone's crimes is probably less than insightful.
Lastly, I assume you were referring to Romney's comments about 47% of Americans being unwilling to take personal responsibility for their lives.
That wasn't a strategy, it was the kind of unfounded nonsense that plutocrats tell each other when they think the hoi polloi aren't listening.
People who are insecure about their relationships are going to read into EVERYTHING on Facebook.
People who are insecure about their relationships are going to read into EVERYTHING.
Crazy or insecure people will act crazy or insecure.
Facebook just gives them another playground for their fears to romp around on.
If a student is absent more than X days, the school is denied funding for that student (and it's easier ot just expel them and wipe their hands clean than anything).
They schools also play games where students get transferred to another school, so that they don't count on the rolls and the clock is reset for the second school.
Ultimately, education starts at home.
There's a genuine problem here in that a) it's their fiduciary duty of corporations to maximise profit at all costs,
[Citation Needed]
I wonder how your idea fits with the role of a charity? Their role is to make money, so they can turn around and spend it.
The idea that companies have to maximise profits is a stupid and short sighted theory that has grabbed hold of the public consciousness.
If the government truly intended for companies to pay 21% tax on their revenues they would not have written deductions into the tax law for companies to take.
These are not deductions that Google & friends are taking advantage of.
It's called transfer pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
If you dig through the Google News archive, you'll find articles on the subject going back a few years.
Governments have become progressively less and less tolerant of the practice and it looks like they're finally ready to crack down.
Nothing like a prolonged economic recession to finally get the tax man chasing after the big bucks.
The problem is that men are in charge of the implementation and that's a common problem across the entire world.
The problem is that Saudi Arabia is home to a particularly shitty and fundamentalist sect of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism or Salafism.
For example: the Taliban in Afghanistan aren't/weren't Wahhabis/Salafis, but they were educated in Pakistan, through Saudi funded schools pushing Wahhabi/Salafi interpretations of Islam.
Much of the shit show in the Middle East can be tied one way or another to the virulent fundamentalism rooted in Saudi Arabia.
/Except for Iran, which is a different branch of Islam, which is why all their Sunni neighbors hate them.
//Iran is mostly the USA's fault for repeatedly overthrowing the government and pissing off the Iranians.
We live in a world of finite workers and resources, and thus the abstraction of that, which we call money, is an important limiting factor on any task, no matter what the risk or rewards.
I would disagree.
The problem is that the utility's liability is not high enough to motivate them to spend money fixing the problems.
As a thought experiment: Imagine that the city told the gas utility that there are going to be fines of $1 million per leak (for >3,300 leaks).
Suddenly, the limiting factor is time and labor, not money, because fixing the problem is cheaper than paying the fines.