Oh, and do we plan to impose a carbon tax on India and China? Not sure I see much point in crippling our industry unless they do the same, since we won't be solving global warming by any action that's not worldwide....
Oh, it's worse than that!!! You think the cost of production is too expensive in the USA, wait till the remaining manufacturing gets shipped to China. They have very little of any regulations at all. In other words, we kill our own economy while at the same time indirectly cause even MORE pollution than had we left things alone. Don't even think about enforcing tariffs either. With as much debt we owe China, that shit WILL NOT FLY with them. And for the moment, I'm just talking about China. There's a whole market of 3rd world nations chomping at the bit to tap into a now freed up market place because of the restriction we put on ourselves. NICE! (not)
This will be an elementary case of "The Laws of Unintended Consequences". Get ready folks to take notes. History is about to be made and you all get a front row seat.
No, you're miss-informed as to what Clean Coal actually is. It has nothing to do with CO2 reduction. It means that technologies (namely scrubbers) are used to dramatically reduce sulfur dioxides, nitrogen dioxides, and other particulate matter.
First, to answer your question. Unless you absolutely need cash in hand ASAP, conventional wisdom states that you ride it out. The market (usually) bounces back and stronger than before. I know were placing a lot of money on faith, but at least there's historical evidence of it being a good rule to follow.
You are correct however that markets are not really all that rational. On the whole, they are. But at the micro level, human nature starts show just how irrational the market is at the base. PBS aired an interesting piece on Nova called Mind Over Matter - Can markets be rational when humans aren't? Very fascinating in that it pits human emotion against raw/pure economic mathematics. It's like watching Klingons working with Vulcans in the market place.
I'm also a Christian. Everyday Christians around the world are persecuted for their beliefs. This holds true in the past as it does in the present. Truth be told, it shouldn't bother you in the slightest if you are secure in your faith.
Muslims, and other people of faith need to learn that they're not instruments of destruction through Gods will. The moment you act on behalf of God, the moment you realize just how weak he is without you. Not exactly what I a call an all powerful all loving omnipresent deity.
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
Britney's albums are hardly what I would call "music", and the concept of world peace is the antithesis to human nature. Regardless, it's par for the course.
When I was 14, a few friends and I decided to slide a storm drain cover open. With a flashlight, most of the surface area was covered in roaches. I swear to God, it was like that scene taken strait out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!
Remember those scenes (movie, TV, ext) where someone wins the Jackpot, and everyone else scrambles around to pick up the coins off the floor? Pushing and shoving in the process of course. Well, I say BP hit "Jackpot", and America should allow any nation and oil company to come on in and scoop up the spilled oil. Fuck BPs bottom line. They should have had a bigger bucket to begin with.
Unless you're on the cheap and/or like tinkering with homebrew solutions, your better off using a professional product like Drobo. For most people that have simple storage requirements, the idea of "Set-it-and-forget-it" is the mantra they want to adhere to.
I'm in my mid 30s too. I've all but stopped gaming for two reason. First, it IS a waste of time. You only realize this when you get older I think. Second, I have other obligations in my personal life. I no longer have the freedom to play games eight hours a day while eating peanuts and drinking beer.
I can't tell you exactly when. But, sometime in the past six years or so I feel that I've bequeathed my legendary gaming crown to the generation behind me. To those people, I say "Game on, and always enjoy the ride":)
No, the lesson here is that the indoctrination of bullshit material to our young students often creates societal damage the echos on for generations to come.
I've yet to see a system available that's sold with the 32-bit version.
Agreed. Minor nitpick however. Netbooks. They're Atom processors are x86 and thus run Windows 7 Starter edition. Granted, I wouldn't expect them to be used with a heavy work load compared with someone using a desktop or laptop. Plus, they usually have no more than 2GB of RAM installed anyways.
While a company could perform a rolled out upgrade installation of Windows 7 x86 on existing hardware, that's really hard to justify in this bare market. Companies don't want to spend money these days. If (and when) the economy picks back up, enough time will have passed to make it worthwhile to procure all new computers with Windows 7 64 pre-loaded.
XP64 suffered lack of application and device driver support. But, it was used by a few employees for one of our clients. They needed to break past the 4GB limit with CAD drawings and geo-science apps that worked with sidescan bathymetry data.
Vista 64 was a mature 64bit platform, even if the OS itself sucked. MS should have made Windows 7 64bit *only* however. We are getting to the point were all new workstations and laptops are already being shipped with 4GB of RAM. If you want to address more than that concurrently, you have no choice but to use a 64bit platform.
Alternative Oil is vastly cheaper and safer than this.
My BS meter just exploded, and I'm pissed.
What cheap "Alternative Oil" is he talking about, and what is its energy density?!
The cheapest oil by volume is still crude oil. So cheap, there are a crap-tastic amount of byproducts made from the stuff...including synthetic (expensive stuff) motor oil. Even biological based (animal or vegetable) oil in supported by crude oil ndirectly through farm machinery or other base chemicals that derive from it.
Ok, so we have a nice way of creating logic gates in DNA. But how long does it take to read the entire string of results back to a digital/electronic format?
I have no clue about the legal matter. However, if you're going to use your own code for employment, perhaps you should have taken a snapshot of it, and forked it?
Basically, whatever progress you did from the beginning belongs to the company while being paid on the clock. Your original code prior to employment belongs to you. But I seriously doubt you can go back and implement their code or process back into your original pre-fork code.
I suggest you watch Modern Marvels: Secrets of Oil. For 60 minutes, you'll get a pretty good insight at just how dependent we became on it, and why we still are.
Really, oh great prophet? And what better way would that be? Keep in mind that everything modern is based on the hydrocarbon, from lipstick to plastics. Quite frankly, I'm not sure we would have reached the technological progress we have so quickly without it. Whether or not the time compression was worth it or not, I will leave up to you to decide.
Correct, the phone definitely matters. Don't let the scare mongering get to you, but the phones with the best reception also have the highest level of radiation. Those are the phones I personally look for. Nothing is more aggravating than using a cheap POS which drops the most calls.
No wonder the Droid and BB 8330s have good reception. =)
In theory, you could have a reverse railgun rifle design. The idea being that as a round exits the chamber, it charges a capacitor that feeds directly to the laser. Essentially, you have a hybrid design. Of course, using the laser mode would sap all the KE out of the round being fired. But that's the idea.
But it hasn't and it wont be. SS is bankrupt. Hell, our entire nation is pretty much bankrupt. We're just juggling with numbers to provide smoke and mirrors.
I'm in my 30s. Honestly, I don't expect to get a dime out of SS. Anytime some politician wants to side aside more money for the program, it ends up in a general slush-fund anyways. My advice? Give it up, SS is a lost cause for anyone but baby boomers.
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Oh, it's worse than that!!! You think the cost of production is too expensive in the USA, wait till the remaining manufacturing gets shipped to China. They have very little of any regulations at all. In other words, we kill our own economy while at the same time indirectly cause even MORE pollution than had we left things alone. Don't even think about enforcing tariffs either. With as much debt we owe China, that shit WILL NOT FLY with them. And for the moment, I'm just talking about China. There's a whole market of 3rd world nations chomping at the bit to tap into a now freed up market place because of the restriction we put on ourselves. NICE! (not)
This will be an elementary case of "The Laws of Unintended Consequences". Get ready folks to take notes. History is about to be made and you all get a front row seat.
No, you're miss-informed as to what Clean Coal actually is. It has nothing to do with CO2 reduction. It means that technologies (namely scrubbers) are used to dramatically reduce sulfur dioxides, nitrogen dioxides, and other particulate matter.
First, to answer your question. Unless you absolutely need cash in hand ASAP, conventional wisdom states that you ride it out. The market (usually) bounces back and stronger than before. I know were placing a lot of money on faith, but at least there's historical evidence of it being a good rule to follow.
You are correct however that markets are not really all that rational. On the whole, they are. But at the micro level, human nature starts show just how irrational the market is at the base. PBS aired an interesting piece on Nova called Mind Over Matter - Can markets be rational when humans aren't? Very fascinating in that it pits human emotion against raw/pure economic mathematics. It's like watching Klingons working with Vulcans in the market place.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/money/
I'm also a Christian. Everyday Christians around the world are persecuted for their beliefs. This holds true in the past as it does in the present. Truth be told, it shouldn't bother you in the slightest if you are secure in your faith.
Muslims, and other people of faith need to learn that they're not instruments of destruction through Gods will. The moment you act on behalf of God, the moment you realize just how weak he is without you. Not exactly what I a call an all powerful all loving omnipresent deity.
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
Britney's albums are hardly what I would call "music", and the concept of world peace is the antithesis to human nature. Regardless, it's par for the course.
Feeding the vampires by offering a small sacrifice? Brilliant idea! How insidious.
When I was 14, a few friends and I decided to slide a storm drain cover open. With a flashlight, most of the surface area was covered in roaches. I swear to God, it was like that scene taken strait out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!
Remember those scenes (movie, TV, ext) where someone wins the Jackpot, and everyone else scrambles around to pick up the coins off the floor? Pushing and shoving in the process of course. Well, I say BP hit "Jackpot", and America should allow any nation and oil company to come on in and scoop up the spilled oil. Fuck BPs bottom line. They should have had a bigger bucket to begin with.
I second that.
Unless you're on the cheap and/or like tinkering with homebrew solutions, your better off using a professional product like Drobo. For most people that have simple storage requirements, the idea of "Set-it-and-forget-it" is the mantra they want to adhere to.
I'm in my mid 30s too. I've all but stopped gaming for two reason. First, it IS a waste of time. You only realize this when you get older I think. Second, I have other obligations in my personal life. I no longer have the freedom to play games eight hours a day while eating peanuts and drinking beer.
I can't tell you exactly when. But, sometime in the past six years or so I feel that I've bequeathed my legendary gaming crown to the generation behind me. To those people, I say "Game on, and always enjoy the ride" :)
No, the lesson here is that the indoctrination of bullshit material to our young students often creates societal damage the echos on for generations to come.
I've yet to see a system available that's sold with the 32-bit version.
Agreed. Minor nitpick however. Netbooks. They're Atom processors are x86 and thus run Windows 7 Starter edition. Granted, I wouldn't expect them to be used with a heavy work load compared with someone using a desktop or laptop. Plus, they usually have no more than 2GB of RAM installed anyways.
While a company could perform a rolled out upgrade installation of Windows 7 x86 on existing hardware, that's really hard to justify in this bare market. Companies don't want to spend money these days. If (and when) the economy picks back up, enough time will have passed to make it worthwhile to procure all new computers with Windows 7 64 pre-loaded.
XP64 suffered lack of application and device driver support. But, it was used by a few employees for one of our clients. They needed to break past the 4GB limit with CAD drawings and geo-science apps that worked with sidescan bathymetry data.
Vista 64 was a mature 64bit platform, even if the OS itself sucked. MS should have made Windows 7 64bit *only* however. We are getting to the point were all new workstations and laptops are already being shipped with 4GB of RAM. If you want to address more than that concurrently, you have no choice but to use a 64bit platform.
My BS meter just exploded, and I'm pissed.
What cheap "Alternative Oil" is he talking about, and what is its energy density?!
The cheapest oil by volume is still crude oil. So cheap, there are a crap-tastic amount of byproducts made from the stuff...including synthetic (expensive stuff) motor oil. Even biological based (animal or vegetable) oil in supported by crude oil ndirectly through farm machinery or other base chemicals that derive from it.
Revelation 8:8 sounds a lot more like an active volcanic island sending magma into the ocean.
Ok, so we have a nice way of creating logic gates in DNA. But how long does it take to read the entire string of results back to a digital/electronic format?
Could it be Seasonal in that special Jovian way?
Don't be so negative.
I have no clue about the legal matter. However, if you're going to use your own code for employment, perhaps you should have taken a snapshot of it, and forked it?
Basically, whatever progress you did from the beginning belongs to the company while being paid on the clock. Your original code prior to employment belongs to you. But I seriously doubt you can go back and implement their code or process back into your original pre-fork code.
I suggest you watch Modern Marvels: Secrets of Oil. For 60 minutes, you'll get a pretty good insight at just how dependent we became on it, and why we still are.
Seems someone posted it on Youtube broken up in five parts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEGddtKiMRc
Really, oh great prophet? And what better way would that be? Keep in mind that everything modern is based on the hydrocarbon, from lipstick to plastics. Quite frankly, I'm not sure we would have reached the technological progress we have so quickly without it. Whether or not the time compression was worth it or not, I will leave up to you to decide.
Correct, the phone definitely matters. Don't let the scare mongering get to you, but the phones with the best reception also have the highest level of radiation. Those are the phones I personally look for. Nothing is more aggravating than using a cheap POS which drops the most calls.
No wonder the Droid and BB 8330s have good reception. =)
It's one thing to help lift an individual out of poverty. But it's quite another to allow an entire nation to be on a never ending welfare program.
In theory, you could have a reverse railgun rifle design. The idea being that as a round exits the chamber, it charges a capacitor that feeds directly to the laser. Essentially, you have a hybrid design. Of course, using the laser mode would sap all the KE out of the round being fired. But that's the idea.
But it hasn't and it wont be. SS is bankrupt. Hell, our entire nation is pretty much bankrupt. We're just juggling with numbers to provide smoke and mirrors.
I'm in my 30s. Honestly, I don't expect to get a dime out of SS. Anytime some politician wants to side aside more money for the program, it ends up in a general slush-fund anyways. My advice? Give it up, SS is a lost cause for anyone but baby boomers.