So how long is it going to be before lots of overpaid lawyers sue the cloud-seeders on the grounds that the communities downwind "own" the rain? Think that's crazy? Try telling that to the communities fighting for the right to put wells in local aquifers against the people way way WAY downstream who think all of the water upstream is theirs.
This doesn't surprise me a bit. Apple's own Radar bug reporting system is practically useless since you can't see what other people may have reported on a given bug, only what you have submitted. If people have posted work-arounds, you can't see them. Furthermore, Apple's developer website search is nearly useless too because you can't filter out duplicate results that happen to be in PDF and HTML formats nor can you eliminate Java results or Cocoa results if all you're interested in is Carbon. Beyond that is the very limited amount of sample code illustrating a given function call. When Quicktime VR was first being shown, I had to jump through a whole ton of fire-hoops to get to the product manager who reluctantly gave me access to the stuff. IMHO, Microsoft's developer website is far superior.
The location of the sensors might result in anomalies extrapolated to larger areas. Case in point, Kenmore Square in Boston for many years had an air-quality monitoring station. Trouble is that it was mounted right at the confluence of a five road major intersection with a ton of often bumper-to-bumper traffic. Yet the data coming out of it was supposed to cover a much much wider area with comparatively little traffic. The net result was constant complaining in the media about high pollution levels. The uninformed public reads that but doesn't know where the sensor was so the assume the pollution level is the same everywhere. IMHO, what we're likely to "discover" is the obvious i.e. that pollution levels and greenhouse gas levels are highest in and downwind of major cities.
All of this carping about a formula with dubious utility is ultimately irrelevant. These securities had inherent poison pills in them. Where did they come from? Risky mortgages. Period. And you can't lay all blame at the feet of so-called predatory lenders. The lenders were often blackmailed into taking the risk of lending to unqualified borrowers lest they be publicly flogged for discriminating against them. Sure, the initial lenders passed the buck/poison to the next group up in the food chain. But the poison only came from one source, a delinquent mortgage. There is no other source. That is patient zero.
I seriously hope this guy was wasting his own money. Beyond that is the hypocrisy of awarding a PhD to this guy while telling me that I have to be able to remember everything taught in every course from freshman year engineering and be TESTED on it to even QUALIFY to be able to work on a PhD thesis never mind defending that thesis. I call bullsh*t.
Okay so I use 40 kilowatts per day. That works out to about $5 per day. So I'd have to have a $40,000 solar system which works out to about 21 years to pay it off. Unless I'm missing something, this make no sense at all. Probably why it's only economically feasible for the individual with massive government subsidy. Such was the case in the 70s. Once the subsidy evaporated, so did the solar industry.
Oh, sure, we can DOUBLE (yes you read that right, DOUBLE as in TWICE as much as last year) the amount of money we give to "foreign aid" and get not so much as a thank you in return but allocate more money to NASA to keep shuttles working, nope, not yours. DOUBLE?!? DOUBLE??!?!?!? Yeah, that'll bring down the deficit. *bangs head on keyboard*
Did it fail because the global warming zealots deep down knew they were full of sh*t and sabotaged the satellite to keep the hoax going? --- Or --- Did it fail because the anti-global-warming crew didn't want more "data" to be added to the debate? Personally, I would laugh my ass off if the satellite used a nuclear power source. That's irony.
Gotta stop farting around with pointless space station projects that are due to be retired just after they're finished and build a real space SHIP. Oh, but thanks to friggin' Carter and now Obama, we can't make better use of nukes. Smooth move, ex lax.
Take cues from George Westinghouse instead of Thomas Edison. Edison screwed over Tesla who then took his genius to Westinghouse who then won the war of the currents.
What I find most interesting is that it has the potential to wrest control of the outcome from the couple of states with the most electoral votes and force candidates to actually campaign everywhere. But IMHO, a better solution would be to eliminate the winner-take-all nature of the college. That has the potential to eliminate focusing a campaign effort only on the big city that happens to occupy a small part of a much larger state. But we also need to throw out McCain-Feingold because it doesn't work the way it was intended. Either that or make the 501C(3)'s totally transparent so that everyone can know where their money is coming from.
Um, yeah, the Mac has had this capability since 2002. Once again proving that Windows is behind the times. Not to be outdone, games come out for Windows long before they do on the Mac thus suggesting that Mac owners spend the majority of their doing real work.
I agree it's a herculean effort. One thing that the technology hasn't addressed are areas that are often in shadow like north slopes of steep cliffs. I'm sure various three-letter agencies have solutions to that but it's not available to regular folk. In a way I have a problem with updating densely populated areas regularly. What's going to change in a month versus quality of imagery changes in a wilderness area that have taken place in the last several years? It just seems to me that putting some resources to filling in the holes in the dataset are good for everyone. Even the paid datasets have glaring errors in them. I've seen Delorme software topos with roads that haven't existed in 20 or more years.
Actually, the USGS topo maps are seriously out of date. Many many times we've attempted to go down a road that existed at one time but is now non-existent or impassable due to landslides, flood erosion or lack of maintenance. Topos also won't show recently added logging roads. As for being able to see stuff like aircraft wreckage, it would be difficult but if you can see things like camels in the desert, you should be able to find man-made things.
Let me amend my earlier posting. Our Search & Rescue Team is 100% voluntary. We provide our own gas and vehicles. To say we don't have a pot to p*ss in would be an understatement. The area we cover is around 8000 square miles. Much of that is pretty rugged country and more often than not, the Google Earth imagery is useless to us. At the same time, we're dealing with USGS topo maps that haven't been updated since man walked erect. What I'm seriously asking for is a point of contact who can at least enlighten me as to why some areas are updated on what appears to be a monthly basis when there are so many areas that are woefully out of date. And yes I have looked at a commercial product. It's VERY expensive. Clearly there is some method that Google uses to get current imagery. I'd just like to find out how you get on their satellite schedule. BTW, snarky comments aren't helpful. I'll remember them next time you get lost.
Does anyone have an "in" with somebody at Google Earth or the outfit they contract with to provide the imagery? A large portion of central and northern Arizona hasn't been updated in years i.e. the images are still in low resolution. The reason I ask is that I belong to a Search & Rescue team and we are currently looking for evidence of a downed aircraft reported missing two years ago. However, much of the possible crash area is still way out of date. In general, not having current imagery makes our job more difficult than it should be.
My point is that you can try to ban space weapons any time you like. It's something that's quite happily waited for decades.
Infrastructure? Oh, you mean 6 billion in the bill to fix up federal buildings? Or perhaps you mean the over 325 million to the B.L.M. for things like repairing trails? Oh, wait, I know, it must be the 500 million in "expenses" for the Weatherization Assistance Program. Sure, helping people make their homes more energy efficient is noble but what the hell does the office need to spend half a billion on? Don't forget that Hoover spent a ton of money on infrastructure.
Besides, infrastructure doesn't run the engine of the economy. Once you've spent 6 billion on federal buildings, they're still just buildings. They don't generate any revenue. In fact they are a further drain on the tax base because you have to maintain the damn things.
Oh, and the collapse had nothing to do with any so-called libertarian policy. The real-estate market didn't die because Fanny bought up a crap load of bad debt. It didn't die because companies were buying and selling insurance on mortgages. It died because there were an abnormally large number of mortgages given to people who could never have afforded them in the first place. That is and always will be the source of the problem. And that is always will be started in 1997 by Bill Clinton. Check your facts. This situation is a game of musical chairs and it was the the defaulting mortgages that took away the first chair. The music was stopped by astronomical home prices and enough people deciding it wasn't worth it.
Corporate tax rates in this country are way too high. Drop the tax 20% and you suddenly give the companies the ability to hire more people. Those new hires then create things, spend their incomes on stuff, contribute to the overall tax base. Check your facts on this one too. Historically, every time tax rates are lowered in this country, the overall tax revenue goes up.
Keynesian economics is fundamentally flawed. One big false premise is that 100% employment is possible. Furthermore, 100% employment results in runaway inflation. Let's say that you wave a magic wand and everyone has a job and you are running a company. If you're growing, you'll find you need to hire people. But where are you going to get them if everyone has a job. You'd have to convince people to leave their current job. But to do that you'd have to pay them more. And to justify that, you'd have to raise your prices. And then the company you're trying to hire the person away from has to do the same.
Is that most games don't allow for real-world techniques. Case in point, Call of Duty 4. The first problem I have with this is it doesn't let you lean out from behind cover so you only expose your head and weapon. No properly trained person would expose his whole body. Second, you can't climb stuff you would normally be able to. Third, there is an exponential component to racking up kills. Once you get to call in air-strikes and helicopters, you usually rack up enough kills to get more air-strikes and helicopters. And since when to.223 rounds not blow through body armor at close range? And finally, a simulation only would be effective if you can't play it anymore once you're dead.
You have ONE job, Mr. President. Fix the economy. And you won't do it by ramrodding this current piece of crap down tax PAYERS throats. Fix it. If and ONLY if it's working properly in two years, then and ONLY then should you even THINK about stupid stuff like this.
IMHO, being able to patent parts of the human genome is stupid. You didn't INVENT anything. Now if you designed a replacement gene that does something new, sure you can have a patent on it. But that would have to exclude cures for things. Say you figured out the gene for color-blindness. Chances are you figured it out or at least verified it against the normal gene. No patent for you. But if you invented a gene that gave a person really great night vision, yeah I'd give you a patent for that.
Look, he's operating on his own, he's cut off from his chain of command, he's showing signs of pressure-induced psychosis... and he's got a nuclear weapon.
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Ditto. Imagine if Mulholland tried to pull off his water projects today. L.A. would either be a desert or they'd have major desalination plants.
So how long is it going to be before lots of overpaid lawyers sue the cloud-seeders on the grounds that the communities downwind "own" the rain? Think that's crazy? Try telling that to the communities fighting for the right to put wells in local aquifers against the people way way WAY downstream who think all of the water upstream is theirs.
This doesn't surprise me a bit. Apple's own Radar bug reporting system is practically useless since you can't see what other people may have reported on a given bug, only what you have submitted. If people have posted work-arounds, you can't see them. Furthermore, Apple's developer website search is nearly useless too because you can't filter out duplicate results that happen to be in PDF and HTML formats nor can you eliminate Java results or Cocoa results if all you're interested in is Carbon. Beyond that is the very limited amount of sample code illustrating a given function call. When Quicktime VR was first being shown, I had to jump through a whole ton of fire-hoops to get to the product manager who reluctantly gave me access to the stuff. IMHO, Microsoft's developer website is far superior.
The location of the sensors might result in anomalies extrapolated to larger areas. Case in point, Kenmore Square in Boston for many years had an air-quality monitoring station. Trouble is that it was mounted right at the confluence of a five road major intersection with a ton of often bumper-to-bumper traffic. Yet the data coming out of it was supposed to cover a much much wider area with comparatively little traffic. The net result was constant complaining in the media about high pollution levels. The uninformed public reads that but doesn't know where the sensor was so the assume the pollution level is the same everywhere. IMHO, what we're likely to "discover" is the obvious i.e. that pollution levels and greenhouse gas levels are highest in and downwind of major cities.
So the vacuum sucks up anything the hamster might want to eat. That's mean.
All of this carping about a formula with dubious utility is ultimately irrelevant. These securities had inherent poison pills in them. Where did they come from? Risky mortgages. Period. And you can't lay all blame at the feet of so-called predatory lenders. The lenders were often blackmailed into taking the risk of lending to unqualified borrowers lest they be publicly flogged for discriminating against them. Sure, the initial lenders passed the buck/poison to the next group up in the food chain. But the poison only came from one source, a delinquent mortgage. There is no other source. That is patient zero.
I seriously hope this guy was wasting his own money. Beyond that is the hypocrisy of awarding a PhD to this guy while telling me that I have to be able to remember everything taught in every course from freshman year engineering and be TESTED on it to even QUALIFY to be able to work on a PhD thesis never mind defending that thesis. I call bullsh*t.
Okay so I use 40 kilowatts per day. That works out to about $5 per day. So I'd have to have a $40,000 solar system which works out to about 21 years to pay it off. Unless I'm missing something, this make no sense at all. Probably why it's only economically feasible for the individual with massive government subsidy. Such was the case in the 70s. Once the subsidy evaporated, so did the solar industry.
Oh, sure, we can DOUBLE (yes you read that right, DOUBLE as in TWICE as much as last year) the amount of money we give to "foreign aid" and get not so much as a thank you in return but allocate more money to NASA to keep shuttles working, nope, not yours. DOUBLE?!? DOUBLE??!?!?!? Yeah, that'll bring down the deficit. *bangs head on keyboard*
Did it fail because the global warming zealots deep down knew they were full of sh*t and sabotaged the satellite to keep the hoax going? --- Or --- Did it fail because the anti-global-warming crew didn't want more "data" to be added to the debate? Personally, I would laugh my ass off if the satellite used a nuclear power source. That's irony.
Gotta stop farting around with pointless space station projects that are due to be retired just after they're finished and build a real space SHIP. Oh, but thanks to friggin' Carter and now Obama, we can't make better use of nukes. Smooth move, ex lax.
Take cues from George Westinghouse instead of Thomas Edison. Edison screwed over Tesla who then took his genius to Westinghouse who then won the war of the currents.
What I find most interesting is that it has the potential to wrest control of the outcome from the couple of states with the most electoral votes and force candidates to actually campaign everywhere. But IMHO, a better solution would be to eliminate the winner-take-all nature of the college. That has the potential to eliminate focusing a campaign effort only on the big city that happens to occupy a small part of a much larger state. But we also need to throw out McCain-Feingold because it doesn't work the way it was intended. Either that or make the 501C(3)'s totally transparent so that everyone can know where their money is coming from.
Um, yeah, the Mac has had this capability since 2002. Once again proving that Windows is behind the times. Not to be outdone, games come out for Windows long before they do on the Mac thus suggesting that Mac owners spend the majority of their doing real work.
How about some research on the concepts they use in the NUMB3RS TV show?
I agree it's a herculean effort. One thing that the technology hasn't addressed are areas that are often in shadow like north slopes of steep cliffs. I'm sure various three-letter agencies have solutions to that but it's not available to regular folk. In a way I have a problem with updating densely populated areas regularly. What's going to change in a month versus quality of imagery changes in a wilderness area that have taken place in the last several years? It just seems to me that putting some resources to filling in the holes in the dataset are good for everyone. Even the paid datasets have glaring errors in them. I've seen Delorme software topos with roads that haven't existed in 20 or more years.
Actually, the USGS topo maps are seriously out of date. Many many times we've attempted to go down a road that existed at one time but is now non-existent or impassable due to landslides, flood erosion or lack of maintenance. Topos also won't show recently added logging roads. As for being able to see stuff like aircraft wreckage, it would be difficult but if you can see things like camels in the desert, you should be able to find man-made things.
Let me amend my earlier posting. Our Search & Rescue Team is 100% voluntary. We provide our own gas and vehicles. To say we don't have a pot to p*ss in would be an understatement. The area we cover is around 8000 square miles. Much of that is pretty rugged country and more often than not, the Google Earth imagery is useless to us. At the same time, we're dealing with USGS topo maps that haven't been updated since man walked erect. What I'm seriously asking for is a point of contact who can at least enlighten me as to why some areas are updated on what appears to be a monthly basis when there are so many areas that are woefully out of date. And yes I have looked at a commercial product. It's VERY expensive. Clearly there is some method that Google uses to get current imagery. I'd just like to find out how you get on their satellite schedule. BTW, snarky comments aren't helpful. I'll remember them next time you get lost.
Does anyone have an "in" with somebody at Google Earth or the outfit they contract with to provide the imagery? A large portion of central and northern Arizona hasn't been updated in years i.e. the images are still in low resolution. The reason I ask is that I belong to a Search & Rescue team and we are currently looking for evidence of a downed aircraft reported missing two years ago. However, much of the possible crash area is still way out of date. In general, not having current imagery makes our job more difficult than it should be.
My point is that you can try to ban space weapons any time you like. It's something that's quite happily waited for decades.
Infrastructure? Oh, you mean 6 billion in the bill to fix up federal buildings? Or perhaps you mean the over 325 million to the B.L.M. for things like repairing trails? Oh, wait, I know, it must be the 500 million in "expenses" for the Weatherization Assistance Program. Sure, helping people make their homes more energy efficient is noble but what the hell does the office need to spend half a billion on? Don't forget that Hoover spent a ton of money on infrastructure.
Besides, infrastructure doesn't run the engine of the economy. Once you've spent 6 billion on federal buildings, they're still just buildings. They don't generate any revenue. In fact they are a further drain on the tax base because you have to maintain the damn things.
Oh, and the collapse had nothing to do with any so-called libertarian policy. The real-estate market didn't die because Fanny bought up a crap load of bad debt. It didn't die because companies were buying and selling insurance on mortgages. It died because there were an abnormally large number of mortgages given to people who could never have afforded them in the first place. That is and always will be the source of the problem. And that is always will be started in 1997 by Bill Clinton. Check your facts. This situation is a game of musical chairs and it was the the defaulting mortgages that took away the first chair. The music was stopped by astronomical home prices and enough people deciding it wasn't worth it.
Corporate tax rates in this country are way too high. Drop the tax 20% and you suddenly give the companies the ability to hire more people. Those new hires then create things, spend their incomes on stuff, contribute to the overall tax base. Check your facts on this one too. Historically, every time tax rates are lowered in this country, the overall tax revenue goes up.
Keynesian economics is fundamentally flawed. One big false premise is that 100% employment is possible. Furthermore, 100% employment results in runaway inflation. Let's say that you wave a magic wand and everyone has a job and you are running a company. If you're growing, you'll find you need to hire people. But where are you going to get them if everyone has a job. You'd have to convince people to leave their current job. But to do that you'd have to pay them more. And to justify that, you'd have to raise your prices. And then the company you're trying to hire the person away from has to do the same.
Is that most games don't allow for real-world techniques. Case in point, Call of Duty 4. The first problem I have with this is it doesn't let you lean out from behind cover so you only expose your head and weapon. No properly trained person would expose his whole body. Second, you can't climb stuff you would normally be able to. Third, there is an exponential component to racking up kills. Once you get to call in air-strikes and helicopters, you usually rack up enough kills to get more air-strikes and helicopters. And since when to .223 rounds not blow through body armor at close range? And finally, a simulation only would be effective if you can't play it anymore once you're dead.
You have ONE job, Mr. President. Fix the economy. And you won't do it by ramrodding this current piece of crap down tax PAYERS throats. Fix it. If and ONLY if it's working properly in two years, then and ONLY then should you even THINK about stupid stuff like this.
IMHO, being able to patent parts of the human genome is stupid. You didn't INVENT anything. Now if you designed a replacement gene that does something new, sure you can have a patent on it. But that would have to exclude cures for things. Say you figured out the gene for color-blindness. Chances are you figured it out or at least verified it against the normal gene. No patent for you. But if you invented a gene that gave a person really great night vision, yeah I'd give you a patent for that.
I feel the need to quote "The Abyss"
Look, he's operating on his own,
he's cut off from his chain of command,
he's showing signs of pressure-induced psychosis...
and he's got a nuclear weapon.
Oh, I know. Their pants are on fire.