So you didn't read the link I posted, just used it as a ladder to climb up on your soap box?
Some of the biggest components of the Gates Foundation are Birth Control and Education.
You know, people have been predicting that we will exceed the carrying capacity of the earth, and be forced to put more marginal land under the plow since Thomas Malthus, about two hundred years ago.
Yet we are using LESS land these days, growing more food, and growing it cheaper. There is not a world wide shortage of food. (There are distribution problems).
If a theory was wrong when it was first published, has been wrong for 200 years, don't you think its time to get a new theory?
Atkins wasn't a fad, just ahead of its time, and in fact its now called by by a different name and low carb diets are finally accepted as the only real and rational way to lose weight.
companies that are dumping all their clients due to ObamaCare will be forced to continue selling their current plans.
FORCED? Are you daft?
The insurance companies would be happy to do just that, and their customers would be happy to buy them just like they did before. There is no FORCE involved in allowing these plans to be sold.
It was the ObamaCare rules made these plans illegal.
You seem to have a major misunderstanding of what is going on, and just how big a helping of half baked Crow Pie Feinstein is being forced to eat when she introduced her bill.
Obviously this is a way to flip the bird at capitalism and most major banking cartels. However it's likely not the right way.
Really? Likely not the best way?
Banking cartels have nothing to do with this, and they aren't the ones getting hurt.
The Venezuelan importers have to buy inventory with real dollars, nobody will give them credit any more since they nationalized everything. So the Importers are done. Out of business. They will take their last few squirreled away dollars and simply leave. (None of these importers is dumb enough to keep money in Venezuelan banks.)
No more imports for Venezuela. The banking cartels won't notice a thing.
Yes and as stupid as it sounds. This will work for a short while. Every person of means is probably desperately trying to leave. Once the "bargains" are gone, there will be no more product. Price controls drive growth into the ground and set the stage to inflation when they are released. Next comes wage control, then shortages, rise in crime (fueled by black markets), persecution of the wealthy, then hollowing out the middle class, and finally riots and needless death.
But that should not be happening in a country with a highly marketable commodity (oil). The nationalization of the oil industry has not been able to maintain previous levels after US and Dutch oil techs were driven out of the country, and production has fallen off by a quarter, and exports fallen off by half since Chavez came to power.
Nationalization has been a major fiasco.
Venezuela depends on the United States to buy 40 percent of its exports because US Gulf of Mexico refineries were designed to process low-quality Venezuelan and Mexican crudes that most refineries around the world cannot easily handle. But in recent years, the United States has been replacing its imports of Latin American crudes with oil from Canadian oil sands fields, which is similarly heavy.
American imports of Venezuelan oil have declined to just under a million barrels a day, from 1.7 million barrels a day in 1997, according to the Energy Department. And while Venezuelan exports of oil are in decline, its dependency on American refineries for refined petroleum products has grown to nearly 200,000 barrels a day because of several recent Venezuelan refinery accidents.
And those (nationalized) refineries aren't going to be fixed by Big Oil. Fool them once. They have a long memory.
It's enough if you exchange the Venezuelan currency to dollars at the official exchange rate. Of course only a complete fool would exchange dollars for bolivars at the official exchange rate. If you do at the rate people who actually do have dollars will agree to, then the store is only getting like 10% of what they paid for the electronics.
No, you didn't read the story. Importers specifically said they could not purchase replacements of the TVs Washers/Dryers at the official exchange rates.
Importers complain that there is such a shortage of dollars they are having to buy them on the black market to import inventory at a good price. If they were to charge clients based on obtaining the dollars at the official rate, they say they would make no profit.
If you buy on the black market with dollars, you can get a washer/dryer cost $650, which is about what you would pay in the states shopping at the low end devices at Lowes or Sears. But at the official exchange rate, re-sellers can't survive.
So, the importers will simply not import. It really is that simple.
Its a political ploy by a party facing an election, and the currency will be devalued shortly after the election is held. For all the oil money Venezuela makes, they have never gotten a grasp of basic economics. If they want a command economy, they are going to have to start manufacturing their own goods, because nobody will sell to their importers at dictated prices.
I had a friend in College from Australia. He found he always had digestive problems returning home for a visit after every semester. A semester was just long enough for his native flora to die off, and it took a day or three of cramps and trots (a bad case of the "dampass" as he called it) to get his gut primed again.
So he got these pills from his doctor, who got them from the military, and would take them on the flight home. They were nothing more than "seed stock" for his gut. This was back in the 60s and apparently Australian Diet of that era was just enough different from American fare that some people had trouble adjusting.
How is this distinctly more efficient than simply using sunlight to warm water, which evaporates, and collecting the fresh water that condenses? Desalination plants work like this, except they tend to use energy from some other source to boil the incoming seawater.
Efficiency isn't one of the claims being made here. In fact TFA indicates that at the lease an order of magnitude improvement is required to get this anywhere near competitive.
But they do mention that the highest temperature required is 30C, with is well withing what you can collect with nothing more than greenhouse, and a heck of a lot lest than evaporator processes need.
However, the summary jumped to conclusions about the seawater bit.
The device also struggles with desalinating seawater, which has a salt concentration about 17 times greater than the team’s test solution, As a result, he says the current method would be most useful for purifying industrial wastewater streams that have a lower salt concentration.
It quickly becomes apparent that the Gates foundation can get more money and programs into the hands of the poorest people in the world by completely bypassing government at all levels. Apparently WillAffleckUW thinks that Gates should strip 20% off of the top of the billions he spends and use it to beef up the US Military, and another 60% to fund US based welfare programs, and maybe allocate 1% to his programs in Africa, South America, and elsewhere around the world. That's how government does it. All Hail Glorious Government.
The knee-jerk response that Religion is the source of all problem indicates a very poor grasp of history of the last hundred years. Religion is at best used as an excuse, but was never the principal cause of any major conflict since the Crusades.
We don't use the simple smart test, or the vendor's test. We either use the linux version of smartctl (smartctl -a/dev/sda ) or a third party one for windows.
By the way you have to find a way to get around the so called "raid controllers" that most manufacturers use on consumer grade machines, because it masks stuff that is happening at the hardware level. You need to talk to the drive directly, not to some fake-raid controller.
If you are sure that they were a relatively new model, and the refurb was a FACTORY refurb, that might be a good method. If Joe Stocking Clerk did the refurb, who knows what you will get.
When installing, and periodically there after, It is wise to run something like smartctl -a/dev/sd? on your drives and check the power on hours and power cycle count. (Not to mention the reallocated sector count and spin retry).
You would be surprised how many refurbs are actually fairly heavily used, with a lot of hours.
My current server's raid array is averaging 5.9 years, but has only seen 53 power cycles over that time. I actually tend to believe (without a great deal of evidence) that power cycles are harder on drives than running constantly.
Google actually did a similar study some years ago. Their study of over 100,000 drives largely agreed with the present study, right down to the three-node distribution of failures over time.
everything that does anything similar is illegal... just look at weed...
Weed's only illegal because you ALLOW it to be. Washington and Colorado have made it not illegal, Oregon and Alaska likely to to follow soon, with a whole raft of other states after that
So instead of whining about it, start collecting signatures.
Not updating a field is not the same thing as falsifying data.
Do you force them to key in a new name and address and gender with each patient visit, or do you trust Joe K Sixpack is still male each time he walks in the door? And if you DON'T check his pants again, and just LEAVE the M in his file, is that Falsifying Data?
Every measurement would be dated anyway, and you simply don't update the date or the data. Its not falsification.
You also need to pay attention to the stuff you see them doing that seemingly does not involve your system.
You will occasionally hear or see they do something in passing, maybe as simple as entering a name and address not only in your system, but also in some other parallel system such as a "rolodex" or simple spread sheet, and when you ask why, you find out that your system never made a provision for printing mailing labels, or the information they need for some obscure report takes way too long to find using your system.
Often you can accommodate these functions with a few lines of code, greatly improving acceptance of the system. (Someone is sure to jump up and scream "Feature Creep", but extensive or expensive additions aren't what is being mentioned here).
Also, don't forget to look into their Closet of Anxieties, those things they only mention while grumbling about their lot in life.
You could of course determine in advance what would be dangerous, but that would require you to know a little something about the subject matter you develop for, rather than being an automaton cranking out mindbogglingly monotonous and un-intuitive code.
When the people who use the system start being perceived as working FOR the system, instead of the system working for them, the first thing that happens is they start looking for shortcuts, and ways to circumvent your elaborately constructed labyrinth.
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But importers ARE being forced to, and now they are being forced to sell their goods at those prices as well, so there will be no more imports.
So you didn't read the link I posted, just used it as a ladder to climb up on your soap box?
Some of the biggest components of the Gates Foundation are Birth Control and Education.
You know, people have been predicting that we will exceed the carrying capacity of the earth, and be forced to put more marginal land under the plow since Thomas Malthus, about two hundred years ago.
Yet we are using LESS land these days, growing more food, and growing it cheaper. There is not a world wide shortage of food. (There are distribution problems).
If a theory was wrong when it was first published, has been wrong for 200 years, don't you think its time to get a new theory?
Atkins wasn't a fad, just ahead of its time, and in fact its now called by by a different name and low carb diets are finally accepted as the only real and rational way to lose weight.
Why in gods name would a company that backdoored their entire crypto stack to the NSA worry that
some crypto code is weak?
They already seized the entire oil industry, railroads, paper mills.
Nobody will invest in Venezuela any more.
Detroit has been run by Democrats for decades.
Yes, he was tongue in cheek.
companies that are dumping all their clients due to ObamaCare will be forced to continue selling their current plans.
FORCED?
Are you daft?
The insurance companies would be happy to do just that, and their customers would be happy to buy them just like they did before.
There is no FORCE involved in allowing these plans to be sold.
It was the ObamaCare rules made these plans illegal.
You seem to have a major misunderstanding of what is going on, and just how big a helping of half baked Crow Pie Feinstein is being forced to eat when she introduced her bill.
Obviously this is a way to flip the bird at capitalism and most major banking cartels. However it's likely not the right way.
Really? Likely not the best way?
Banking cartels have nothing to do with this, and they aren't the ones getting hurt.
The Venezuelan importers have to buy inventory with real dollars, nobody will give them credit any more since they nationalized everything.
So the Importers are done. Out of business. They will take their last few squirreled away dollars and simply leave. (None of these importers is dumb enough to keep money in Venezuelan banks.)
No more imports for Venezuela. The banking cartels won't notice a thing.
Yes and as stupid as it sounds. This will work for a short while. Every person of means is probably desperately trying to leave. Once the "bargains" are gone, there will be no more product. Price controls drive growth into the ground and set the stage to inflation when they are released. Next comes wage control, then shortages, rise in crime (fueled by black markets), persecution of the wealthy, then hollowing out the middle class, and finally riots and needless death.
But that should not be happening in a country with a highly marketable commodity (oil). The nationalization of the oil industry has not been able to maintain previous levels after US and Dutch oil techs were driven out of the country, and production has fallen off by a quarter, and exports fallen off by half since Chavez came to power.
Nationalization has been a major fiasco.
Venezuela depends on the United States to buy 40 percent of its exports because US Gulf of Mexico refineries were designed to process low-quality Venezuelan and Mexican crudes that most refineries around the world cannot easily handle. But in recent years, the United States has been replacing its imports of Latin American crudes with oil from Canadian oil sands fields, which is similarly heavy.
American imports of Venezuelan oil have declined to just under a million barrels a day, from 1.7 million barrels a day in 1997, according to the Energy Department. And while Venezuelan exports of oil are in decline, its dependency on American refineries for refined petroleum products has grown to nearly 200,000 barrels a day because of several recent Venezuelan refinery accidents.
And those (nationalized) refineries aren't going to be fixed by Big Oil. Fool them once. They have a long memory.
It's enough if you exchange the Venezuelan currency to dollars at the official exchange rate. Of course only a complete fool would exchange dollars for bolivars at the official exchange rate. If you do at the rate people who actually do have dollars will agree to, then the store is only getting like 10% of what they paid for the electronics.
No, you didn't read the story. Importers specifically said they could not purchase replacements of the TVs Washers/Dryers at the official exchange rates.
Importers complain that there is such a shortage of dollars they are having to buy them on the black market to import inventory at a good price. If they were to charge clients based on obtaining the dollars at the official rate, they say they would make no profit.
If you buy on the black market with dollars, you can get a washer/dryer cost $650, which is about what you would pay in the states shopping at the low end devices at Lowes or Sears. But at the official exchange rate, re-sellers can't survive.
So, the importers will simply not import. It really is that simple.
Its a political ploy by a party facing an election, and the currency will be devalued shortly after the election is held. For all the oil money Venezuela makes, they have never gotten a grasp of basic economics. If they want a command economy, they are going to have to start manufacturing their own goods, because nobody will sell to their importers at dictated prices.
Pretty much covered by the first respondent.
I had a friend in College from Australia. He found he always had digestive problems returning home for a visit after every semester. A semester was just long enough for his native flora to die off, and it took a day or three of cramps and trots (a bad case of the "dampass" as he called it) to get his gut primed again.
So he got these pills from his doctor, who got them from the military, and would take them on the flight home. They were nothing more than "seed stock" for his gut. This was back in the 60s and apparently Australian Diet of that era was just enough different from American fare that some people had trouble adjusting.
Well, that is the fate of gut bacteria, is it not? Seems they are "born" late in life.
Maybe the Gut bacteria found the soylent concoction particularly tasty and were eating more of it than the human, hence the weight loss.
How is this distinctly more efficient than simply using sunlight to warm water, which evaporates, and collecting the fresh water that condenses? Desalination plants work like this, except they tend to use energy from some other source to boil the incoming seawater.
Efficiency isn't one of the claims being made here. In fact TFA indicates that at the lease an order of magnitude improvement is required to get this anywhere near competitive.
But they do mention that the highest temperature required is 30C, with is well withing what you can collect with nothing more than greenhouse, and a heck of a lot lest than evaporator processes need.
However, the summary jumped to conclusions about the seawater bit.
The device also struggles with desalinating seawater, which has a salt concentration about 17 times greater than the team’s test solution, As a result, he says the current method would be most useful for purifying industrial wastewater streams that have a lower salt concentration.
.
So, not really practical at this time.
Why do you care that they're paying fewer taxes, when they're getting the wealth to the people who need it more directly?
Exactly right.
Giving money to government is the LEAST efficient way to improve the lives of the poor.
Look at the graphic on this page: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258 as to where your federal tax dollars go.
Compare that to where the Gates Foundation spends their money.
It quickly becomes apparent that the Gates foundation can get more money and programs into the hands of the poorest people
in the world by completely bypassing government at all levels. Apparently WillAffleckUW thinks that Gates should strip 20% off of the
top of the billions he spends and use it to beef up the US Military, and another 60% to fund US based welfare programs, and maybe allocate
1% to his programs in Africa, South America, and elsewhere around the world. That's how government does it. All Hail Glorious Government.
His aid does not cross borders if the government has decided public research paid for by taxpayers should not be locked up by mega-corps.
Citation needed.
If you look at what the Gates Foundation does, and where they do it I think you will find yourself guilty of a cheap shot of the most misguided kind.
Mod parent up.
The knee-jerk response that Religion is the source of all problem indicates a very poor grasp of history of the last hundred years.
Religion is at best used as an excuse, but was never the principal cause of any major conflict since the Crusades.
We don't use the simple smart test, or the vendor's test. We either use the linux version of smartctl (smartctl -a /dev/sda )
or a third party one for windows.
By the way you have to find a way to get around the so called "raid controllers" that most manufacturers use on consumer grade machines, because it masks stuff that is happening at the hardware level. You need to talk to the drive directly, not to some fake-raid controller.
If you are sure that they were a relatively new model, and the refurb was a FACTORY refurb, that might be a good method. If Joe Stocking Clerk did the refurb, who knows what you will get.
When installing, and periodically there after, It is wise to run something like smartctl -a /dev/sd? on your drives and check the power on hours and power cycle count. (Not to mention the reallocated sector count and spin retry).
You would be surprised how many refurbs are actually fairly heavily used, with a lot of hours.
My current server's raid array is averaging 5.9 years, but has only seen 53 power cycles over that time. I actually tend to believe (without a great deal of evidence) that power cycles are harder on drives than running constantly.
Google actually did a similar study some years ago. Their study of over 100,000 drives largely agreed with the present study, right down to the three-node distribution of failures over time.
everything that does anything similar is illegal... just look at weed...
Weed's only illegal because you ALLOW it to be.
Washington and Colorado have made it not illegal, Oregon and Alaska likely to to follow soon, with a whole raft of other states after that
So instead of whining about it, start collecting signatures.
Personally, I'd rather drink than smoke.
Mere mention of it here reminds me how much I miss the byline that Slashdot used to carry:
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"
Not updating a field is not the same thing as falsifying data.
Do you force them to key in a new name and address and gender with each patient visit, or do you trust Joe K Sixpack is still male each time he walks in the door? And if you DON'T check his pants again, and just LEAVE the M in his file, is that Falsifying Data?
Every measurement would be dated anyway, and you simply don't update the date or the data. Its not falsification.
You also need to pay attention to the stuff you see them doing that seemingly does not involve your system.
You will occasionally hear or see they do something in passing, maybe as simple as entering a name and address not only in your system, but also in some other parallel system such as a "rolodex" or simple spread sheet, and when you ask why, you find out that your system never made a provision for printing mailing labels, or the information they need for some obscure report takes way too long to find using your system.
Often you can accommodate these functions with a few lines of code, greatly improving acceptance of the system. (Someone is sure to jump up and scream "Feature Creep", but extensive or expensive additions aren't what is being mentioned here).
Also, don't forget to look into their Closet of Anxieties, those things they only mention while grumbling about their lot in life.
And your sales would be a lot better too.
You could of course determine in advance what would be dangerous, but that would require you to know a little something about the subject matter you develop for, rather than being an automaton cranking out mindbogglingly monotonous and un-intuitive code.
When the people who use the system start being perceived as working FOR the system, instead of the system working for them, the first thing that happens is they start looking for shortcuts, and ways to circumvent your elaborately constructed labyrinth.