Probably nothing. Only Congress can properly address this. The Directory of the FBI is appointed by the President. What do you think the FBI thinks about it?
I'm adamantly opposed to any required data retention such as mail logs, web logs, etc. Especially since according to your emails you have been chatting with a "tired gilr" and sent before and after photos of yourself to some web site.
So the administration that can't keep its own email records in accordance with Federal Law wants to pass a NEW Federal Law mandating that all of OUR records be retained for 2 years?
How is this any different than, say, Ford discontinuing its Aerostar minivan line? When Ford discontinues the Aerostar your kids and your aging poodle with the bladder control problem won't be locked inside with no way to get out. That is assuming that you want to listen to your kids or the dog again.
Reusing old parts is excellent (remember - reduce, reuse, recycle...in that order), and likely far greener than new turbines even if less efficient. Why in that order? Why not reuse, recycle, reduce? I guess it depends on whether you have it already or not - reuse, recycle, reduce would tend to imply that you already had "it" whereas reduce, reuse, recycle would mean that you chose not to get "it" in the first place:)
I does work on a small scale. It works on a larger scale in Spain (by the same company putting a new plant in AZ).
How come more money in the form of credits and tax breaks goes to fossil fuels than solar? Do they still need to be researched? Are fossil fuels still so much in their infancy that they have to be funded this way? This particular technology is fairly "new". It's not the solar cell from your second grade calculator, it's a solar(heat) powered turbine.
As long as we're assuming why don't we assume that power companies might be encouraged to build these on land that they already own and that power companies will spend their own money (or their customers' own money) on building this out if only the pump can be primed? The idea is not that it will cost a ton of money (it likely will) it's a question of what will it take to motivate companies to shift the source of their electrical production.
Also from TFA:
That means Congress and the president must renew the 30 percent solar energy investment tax credit through 2016. After all, it's the least they can do. From 2002 to 2007, fossil fuels received almost $14 billion in electricity-related tax subsides, whereas renewables received under $3 billion. From 1948 to today, nuclear energy R&D exceeded $70 billion, whereas R&D for renewables was about $10 billion. and
Another useful incentive would be loan guarantees, a program that could be retired once we have a price for carbon dioxide. CSP has no fuel cost, and low operations and maintenance costs, but it has high upfront capital costs. Loan guarantees can reduce the risks of the first big plants at little or no cost to the taxpayer. It doesn't pay yet because it's new technology and loan guarantees vs. subsidies are the biggest possible incentives. Even with record profits the oil companies are receiving tax breaks to continue producing oil. Why not throw a bone to technology that has to potential to be completely non-polluting (water and sunlight), cheap and widely available?
Forget subsidizing this with tax dollars. I have a few bucks to invest. Let me buy some stock. Or how about some energy bonds? The US sold war bonds during WWII, let us buy Alternative Energy Bonds for investing in solar and geo and fuel cells. APS (mentioned in the article) does have a program where you can "invest" in the solar power plant development through an additional fee on your monthly bill. It's completely voluntary and it's been a while since I read up on it, but the idea was to contribute to the overall development of solar energy plants - there was a return of some kind too.
Does that mean If I throw a heap of the CDs into hte street and a cop comes along and asks who is littering, I can tell them the CDs belong to AOL and he will send them a fine?
Replace CD's with hazardous waste and AOL w/ producer of said waste, and yes they(the producer) would be on the hook for the waste. I thought AOL CDs were hazardous waste.
Did you try flashing it back?!
Bricked is such an overly used term. people give up too easily!
Bricking should be followed up by some sort of qualifier, indicating the depths to which you've sunk to try to breath new life into the device.
PLEASE don't sell us short! It stopped responding completely. Power cycles, animal sacrifices, etc. and had a reddish glow from inside the unit. It was confirmed dead by Qwest and Netcraft and Qwest sent me a new unit.
lol, me and my 10 year-old cisco 675 are impressed;)
Sigh
A URL should be an address, a picture should be a picture, and a song should be a song and none of the above should be DOING anything:( I bricked my 675 with a firmware update so I'm stuck with the 678.
Did no one test the sample code before publication?!
This is one of those things that I just can't understand. I ran into this same thing when trying to get up to speed on C++ on Windows a few years back. I picked up a copy of Visual C++.NET Bible (only to find out it had almost nothing to do with.NET) and found it's examples were completely bug ridden. I found one example that had something like 20 bugs in it.
One would think on the web where fast publication generally happens you might see this. But in an introductory text, where examples will cause profound confusion, you would think they could at least do a single editorial debug pass through it. More so, it's a freaking dead-tree book, if you are going to publish something that will last for years, and it has your name on the cover, try checking the examples!
BTW, for those who think O'reilly is immune to this, it's not - I have a number of O'reilly texts I bought based on their rep only to find out they published a useless doorstop.
The things this reviewer complained about the most seemed to me to depend on environmental settings and would be very server specific. He complained about short tags (there are many scripts that rely on short tags, good bad or ugly)when short tags can be set in the server configuration. And complaining about the difference in quoting styles and the difference between print and echo? The review lost any sense of objectivity when he started picking nits.
I know that you were trying to be funny, but around here there are a lot of people without a bank account of any kind. It's due to a mistrust of the government (Native Americans) a lack of financial education (bouncing checks and then being unable to open a new account due to credit history checks by the new bank) and the fact that cash is handy.
Then there are the automated responses to mailing lists that people have signed up for. If you are going to participate on a mailing list, disable the "prove yourself" email.
In other words, MS stopped supporting EVERYONE doing things with Win98 and ME. Which sounds pretty consistent with an EOL policy.
It's probably more like, "if you want to keep selling current software you will NOT support anything before X" which might sound consistent with EOL but also sounds consistent with suspect tactics due to the fact that they are monopolists. The way I read between the lines HP would be happy to have their printer working on any operating system. On their driver download page they list Windows, OSX and Linux. The links to ME and Win98 have a we're sorry message. The link to Linux goes off to the hplip project. I get that EOL means no new software but this method of EOLing software has nothing to do with new software, it has to do with preventing working software from being available.
How about the HP printers that come with a piece of paper that states, "If you still have the Windows CD with Windows 95/98 drivers hang onto like it's Gold! We can't send you a replacement disk or allow you to download drivers from the HP website because Bill Gates won't let us." Of course they also have a link to the hplip propject on their website, just in case you use *nix.
If it hadn't been for the *nix link, I would have had to trash several machines just to print.
I like the free or open range concept of "property" and whether anyone has the "right" to walk on your property. Here in Arizona the law (physical) says that if don't want animals grazing on your land (people wandering around) you need to fence them out. If you fail to properly fence them out, then they have free range on your land - can eat your grass, etc. That doesn't mean anyone can just wander all over your land(site) just the parts that aren't fenced off.
Wasn't there an unwritten debating law stating that anybody who brings porn into a discussion instantly loses that discussion?
Only if you keep it hidden below your podium and don't show it to your opponent, while furtively peaking yourself or you inadvertently drool down the front of your shirt (assuming you are wearing one)
No it decreased the power of the other two branches, because they can only act with the approval of the Judicial Branch - not striking down a law is a tacit approval. To play devil's advocate - why can't the President serve as an arbitor of Constitutionality by rejecting the execution of a law?
The President serves as an arbiter of Constitutionality by vetoing the bill, not by rejecting the "execution" of it. If the President wishes to reject the execution, it is up to him/her to draft a new law rescinding the old one. Or do like they've always done and let the Court strike down the law based upon Constitutional arguments.
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Probably nothing. Only Congress can properly address this. The Directory of the FBI is appointed by the President. What do you think the FBI thinks about it?
It also said the biggest proponent was FBI director Mueller and Alberto Gonzalez
So the administration that can't keep its own email records in accordance with Federal Law wants to pass a NEW Federal Law mandating that all of OUR records be retained for 2 years?
IANAL but that's kinda how I read it too. Yes, they are asking for their identities.
Try this
I does work on a small scale. It works on a larger scale in Spain (by the same company putting a new plant in AZ). How come more money in the form of credits and tax breaks goes to fossil fuels than solar? Do they still need to be researched? Are fossil fuels still so much in their infancy that they have to be funded this way? This particular technology is fairly "new". It's not the solar cell from your second grade calculator, it's a solar(heat) powered turbine.
As long as we're assuming why don't we assume that power companies might be encouraged to build these on land that they already own and that power companies will spend their own money (or their customers' own money) on building this out if only the pump can be primed? The idea is not that it will cost a ton of money (it likely will) it's a question of what will it take to motivate companies to shift the source of their electrical production.
Replace CD's with hazardous waste and AOL w/ producer of said waste, and yes they(the producer) would be on the hook for the waste. I thought AOL CDs were hazardous waste.
Sigh
A URL should be an address, a picture should be a picture, and a song should be a song and none of the above should be DOING anything
Did no one test the sample code before publication?!
This is one of those things that I just can't understand. I ran into this same thing when trying to get up to speed on C++ on Windows a few years back. I picked up a copy of Visual C++ .NET Bible (only to find out it had almost nothing to do with .NET) and found it's examples were completely bug ridden. I found one example that had something like 20 bugs in it.
One would think on the web where fast publication generally happens you might see this. But in an introductory text, where examples will cause profound confusion, you would think they could at least do a single editorial debug pass through it. More so, it's a freaking dead-tree book, if you are going to publish something that will last for years, and it has your name on the cover, try checking the examples!
BTW, for those who think O'reilly is immune to this, it's not - I have a number of O'reilly texts I bought based on their rep only to find out they published a useless doorstop.
The things this reviewer complained about the most seemed to me to depend on environmental settings and would be very server specific. He complained about short tags (there are many scripts that rely on short tags, good bad or ugly)when short tags can be set in the server configuration. And complaining about the difference in quoting styles and the difference between print and echo? The review lost any sense of objectivity when he started picking nits.I know that you were trying to be funny, but around here there are a lot of people without a bank account of any kind. It's due to a mistrust of the government (Native Americans) a lack of financial education (bouncing checks and then being unable to open a new account due to credit history checks by the new bank) and the fact that cash is handy.
Then there are the automated responses to mailing lists that people have signed up for. If you are going to participate on a mailing list, disable the "prove yourself" email.
It's probably more like, "if you want to keep selling current software you will NOT support anything before X" which might sound consistent with EOL but also sounds consistent with suspect tactics due to the fact that they are monopolists. The way I read between the lines HP would be happy to have their printer working on any operating system. On their driver download page they list Windows, OSX and Linux. The links to ME and Win98 have a we're sorry message. The link to Linux goes off to the hplip project. I get that EOL means no new software but this method of EOLing software has nothing to do with new software, it has to do with preventing working software from being available.
I haven't searched the site to determine if they specifically outline the policy but I did scan the flier.
How about the HP printers that come with a piece of paper that states, "If you still have the Windows CD with Windows 95/98 drivers hang onto like it's Gold! We can't send you a replacement disk or allow you to download drivers from the HP website because Bill Gates won't let us." Of course they also have a link to the hplip propject on their website, just in case you use *nix.
If it hadn't been for the *nix link, I would have had to trash several machines just to print.
I like the free or open range concept of "property" and whether anyone has the "right" to walk on your property. Here in Arizona the law (physical) says that if don't want animals grazing on your land (people wandering around) you need to fence them out. If you fail to properly fence them out, then they have free range on your land - can eat your grass, etc. That doesn't mean anyone can just wander all over your land(site) just the parts that aren't fenced off.
Only if you keep it hidden below your podium and don't show it to your opponent, while furtively peaking yourself or you inadvertently drool down the front of your shirt (assuming you are wearing one)
Was this supposed to be modded funny? I couldn't tell.
The President serves as an arbiter of Constitutionality by vetoing the bill, not by rejecting the "execution" of it. If the President wishes to reject the execution, it is up to him/her to draft a new law rescinding the old one. Or do like they've always done and let the Court strike down the law based upon Constitutional arguments.