How much they charge is a bit of an anti-capitalistic tack to take isn't it? They will profit from a high market price instead of selling at cost will they not? The important question here for any sort of meaningful comparison is how much do they cost to run over a period of time.
The other thing to consider is that these things fill a niche instead of the entire power basket so they have to be compared against little gas turbines instead of 1TW nuclear powered units. If you have nukes they run as close to 24/7/365 as you can due to ramp up times, how long the fuel rods will last etc, so comparing the little windmills that fill in the gaps to those is very misleading.
My Sig spits 40 cal lead... be a grown-up
Oh yes, very grown up:) How about taking a mature approach instead of railing against people who see a business opportunity here? The days of central socialist style state control of power systems are gone and there is a niche for small companies with small units of gas, wind, solar or whatever makes money.
It's slashdot not talk radio so how about numbers in megawatts instead of "enough to power X homes" or volkswagens per libraries of congress or similar utterly useless descriptions?
Indeed a very large number are like that so assuming all is very close to the truth. For some reason a lot of people don't see Trump as one despite his decades of being mixed up in politics.
Trump talks like a walking conspiracy theory. If he wasn't born rich he's just be considered a crazy person muttering on a street corner.
So some apologists make noise about it just being the deal-making random act he does to confuse enemies - fair enough - but do you understand that if it is true he considers the voters an enemy to be tricked?
Research yes - in production not a lot so the "hire better people" just shows ignorance fuelled smugness on your part. And spalling covers a lot of things including exciting high speed spalling when molten metal runs across a concrete floor - what fun!
as long as they are funded by a voluntary tax on anyone who supports funding them.
That pretty well sums up why California has had a long series of financial problems. It's a situation where people will not vote for anything that will give the state the revenue it needs to function. Unless there is LSD in the water there (which would explain Californian politics) you can expect a similar situation if you expect people to band together and contribute enough to provide a functional level of infrastructure. Consider someone like Rupert Murdoch. From the speeches he has delivered (eg. Bowyer lecture a few years ago) he thinks a very wide range of government services are necessary for modern society to operate effectively, but he wants somebody else to pay for it and is one of the major tax evaders in the western world. It's not just him, nearly everyone can think of a reason why it's better to avoid a voluntary tax than pay it.
Also why the hair splitting anyway? With Snowden and many others we know about there is plenty of movement between those two agencies, plus I was giving an example where cowardly spooks were hiding behind their state granted secrecy while acting directly against the values of the state they worked for to do a task that damaged the state when it was found out. Holding public servants acting against the state to account is IMHO the opposite of treason.
Snowden and Manning put Country before King - the American way, instead of the Imperial/aristocratic approach of bowing down before the King and all their men whether they do wrong or not.
Good point I'd have to be in the mood. The stuff coming out with the centenaries of WWI is of course a good reminder that anything that even attempts to be accurate about warfare is going to be gruesome (which really pissed off that reviewer didn't it?), but tanks are so interesting. I think it would be worth it just to see a real tiger tank moving around.
Utopia, American Style, is turning out to be a hell for most people
I'm certainly seeing that around the place. I've never really been poor but had a rural upbringing as if I was in some ways so knowing how to cope with little has got me through some patches of unemployment and other problems - however I keep getting others asking me to help them out who have never learned to cope. I've seen so many people out there who have become poor but still spend on luxuries because they still want to chase that utopia - expensive special lounge movie tickets but then not even enough for a tin of beans to eat at the end of the week.
Kind of the point. The original satire that provides the name isn't very long and is on the net so is worth a read. Keep in mind that Moore was a lawyer by profession when you get to the bit about the society so enlightened that it does not need lawyers and you'll start to get the point.
A utopia needs perfect people and is likely to be hell on earth for those who are not perfect (eg. kids growing up). Part of the early history of American settlement is little utopian colonies either changing to deal with reality or eating themselves from the inside - Salem witch trials and far worse.
but because their carefully coded moral decision framework makes a decision that is arguably right, but so horrific that the human population rebel
We've already seen that stuff in reality. Forced birth control in Ecuador a few years back fits that apart from the rebellion bit since it was carefully carried out on those least able to rebel. Even though it was human beings setting the policy it was due to a policy shaped by a mathematician as if it was computer code.
Has Microsoft learned nothing in the past two decades?
Due to staff turnover they have not. Hence WinME, Vista, Win8 when they have a new batch of people and Win2K/XP and Win7 when that batch have gained some experience.
They tried at some point but the geo-blocker fell over and then ONE router owned by a different company (so thus untouchable until their staff arrived) fell over. Isn't outsourcing to the "cloud" wonderful?
These days IBM has little more than a shopfront in Australia while most of their workers are in mainland China. Source: a few ex-IBM guys I know who flew to China a few years back to train their replacements. As for their record, one of the things the above poster is referring to is a payroll system fuckup so bad that it was the major cause of a government getting voted out of office for three years despite the alternative being a bunch of corrupt idiots.
Since the advertising all used the term "census night" it's very likely that most people logged in a bit after sunset no matter what their work commitments were. I was under the mistaken impression that the site would not be live in the morning based on that advertising.
Those assurances are being brought to you by the same government that announced that they had found the missing airliner in the Indian Ocean last year. If they say something you have to wait until someone else confirms it before you can treat it as anything other than gossip.
If they are fucking up everywhere it doesn't matter where the wrongdoings of these tax thieves are located. Should we really excuse, as one of many examples leaked, the spooks who set up and paid for a young boy to be gifted to a important contact as a sex slave just because the contact was in Afganistan. Do you really want that stuff done in your name with your tax dollars left alone just because the US agency doing it was not in the USA? Do you really want this stuff to be as acceptable as it is to the Russians to have someone in London killed off with Polonium to leave a very obvious calling card?
He revealed it to another American citizen who then told the world. Even splitting hairs like the comment above doesn't fit because the journalist is not being prosecuted for revealing what the NSA is doing abroad. He blew the whistle on a bunch of corrupt tax thieves who just happen to be spooks who can pretend that anyone that opposes them personally is an enemy of the entire Western World.
A factor to consider is that the US has a very good reputation for postgraduate study so a lot of people go there. On the undergraduate level, not so much, hence skewing the numbers even more with not so many locals moving on to postgraduate study (plus they are competing with the cream from everywhere else). I'm getting that second hand from some friends who were appalled by the undergraduates they had to teach in the USA, but then I'm been pretty appalled at times elsewhere so it may not be a general case.
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The important question here for any sort of meaningful comparison is how much do they cost to run over a period of time.
The other thing to consider is that these things fill a niche instead of the entire power basket so they have to be compared against little gas turbines instead of 1TW nuclear powered units. If you have nukes they run as close to 24/7/365 as you can due to ramp up times, how long the fuel rods will last etc, so comparing the little windmills that fill in the gaps to those is very misleading.
Oh yes, very grown up :)
How about taking a mature approach instead of railing against people who see a business opportunity here? The days of central socialist style state control of power systems are gone and there is a niche for small companies with small units of gas, wind, solar or whatever makes money.
It's slashdot not talk radio so how about numbers in megawatts instead of "enough to power X homes" or volkswagens per libraries of congress or similar utterly useless descriptions?
Indeed a very large number are like that so assuming all is very close to the truth.
For some reason a lot of people don't see Trump as one despite his decades of being mixed up in politics.
That's avoidance - very blatant outright evasion using political connections to keep tax agencies at bay is a different story.
Trump talks like a walking conspiracy theory.
If he wasn't born rich he's just be considered a crazy person muttering on a street corner.
So some apologists make noise about it just being the deal-making random act he does to confuse enemies - fair enough - but do you understand that if it is true he considers the voters an enemy to be tricked?
Research yes - in production not a lot so the "hire better people" just shows ignorance fuelled smugness on your part.
And spalling covers a lot of things including exciting high speed spalling when molten metal runs across a concrete floor - what fun!
A union once bit his sister.
Don't expect anything coherent about unions from someone in the USA that has grown up on shock-jock radio.
That pretty well sums up why California has had a long series of financial problems. It's a situation where people will not vote for anything that will give the state the revenue it needs to function. Unless there is LSD in the water there (which would explain Californian politics) you can expect a similar situation if you expect people to band together and contribute enough to provide a functional level of infrastructure.
Consider someone like Rupert Murdoch. From the speeches he has delivered (eg. Bowyer lecture a few years ago) he thinks a very wide range of government services are necessary for modern society to operate effectively, but he wants somebody else to pay for it and is one of the major tax evaders in the western world. It's not just him, nearly everyone can think of a reason why it's better to avoid a voluntary tax than pay it.
Also why the hair splitting anyway? With Snowden and many others we know about there is plenty of movement between those two agencies, plus I was giving an example where cowardly spooks were hiding behind their state granted secrecy while acting directly against the values of the state they worked for to do a task that damaged the state when it was found out.
Holding public servants acting against the state to account is IMHO the opposite of treason.
Snowden and Manning put Country before King - the American way, instead of the Imperial/aristocratic approach of bowing down before the King and all their men whether they do wrong or not.
Good point I'd have to be in the mood. The stuff coming out with the centenaries of WWI is of course a good reminder that anything that even attempts to be accurate about warfare is going to be gruesome (which really pissed off that reviewer didn't it?), but tanks are so interesting.
I think it would be worth it just to see a real tiger tank moving around.
I did. Putting your words in my mouth can not be blamed on me.
Not the same. Real horror in Ecuador - dragging women off the streets at random in poor areas for forced sterilization often without anaesthetic.
I'm certainly seeing that around the place. I've never really been poor but had a rural upbringing as if I was in some ways so knowing how to cope with little has got me through some patches of unemployment and other problems - however I keep getting others asking me to help them out who have never learned to cope. I've seen so many people out there who have become poor but still spend on luxuries because they still want to chase that utopia - expensive special lounge movie tickets but then not even enough for a tin of beans to eat at the end of the week.
Kind of the point.
The original satire that provides the name isn't very long and is on the net so is worth a read.
Keep in mind that Moore was a lawyer by profession when you get to the bit about the society so enlightened that it does not need lawyers and you'll start to get the point.
A utopia needs perfect people and is likely to be hell on earth for those who are not perfect (eg. kids growing up). Part of the early history of American settlement is little utopian colonies either changing to deal with reality or eating themselves from the inside - Salem witch trials and far worse.
We've already seen that stuff in reality. Forced birth control in Ecuador a few years back fits that apart from the rebellion bit since it was carefully carried out on those least able to rebel. Even though it was human beings setting the policy it was due to a policy shaped by a mathematician as if it was computer code.
Due to staff turnover they have not. Hence WinME, Vista, Win8 when they have a new batch of people and Win2K/XP and Win7 when that batch have gained some experience.
The sex slave thing was very well documented in the Manning leak and I said "spooks" not NSA so piss off attempting to put words in my mouth.
They tried at some point but the geo-blocker fell over and then ONE router owned by a different company (so thus untouchable until their staff arrived) fell over.
Isn't outsourcing to the "cloud" wonderful?
These days IBM has little more than a shopfront in Australia while most of their workers are in mainland China. Source: a few ex-IBM guys I know who flew to China a few years back to train their replacements.
As for their record, one of the things the above poster is referring to is a payroll system fuckup so bad that it was the major cause of a government getting voted out of office for three years despite the alternative being a bunch of corrupt idiots.
Since the advertising all used the term "census night" it's very likely that most people logged in a bit after sunset no matter what their work commitments were. I was under the mistaken impression that the site would not be live in the morning based on that advertising.
Those assurances are being brought to you by the same government that announced that they had found the missing airliner in the Indian Ocean last year.
If they say something you have to wait until someone else confirms it before you can treat it as anything other than gossip.
If they are fucking up everywhere it doesn't matter where the wrongdoings of these tax thieves are located. Should we really excuse, as one of many examples leaked, the spooks who set up and paid for a young boy to be gifted to a important contact as a sex slave just because the contact was in Afganistan.
Do you really want that stuff done in your name with your tax dollars left alone just because the US agency doing it was not in the USA?
Do you really want this stuff to be as acceptable as it is to the Russians to have someone in London killed off with Polonium to leave a very obvious calling card?
He revealed it to another American citizen who then told the world. Even splitting hairs like the comment above doesn't fit because the journalist is not being prosecuted for revealing what the NSA is doing abroad.
He blew the whistle on a bunch of corrupt tax thieves who just happen to be spooks who can pretend that anyone that opposes them personally is an enemy of the entire Western World.
A factor to consider is that the US has a very good reputation for postgraduate study so a lot of people go there. On the undergraduate level, not so much, hence skewing the numbers even more with not so many locals moving on to postgraduate study (plus they are competing with the cream from everywhere else).
I'm getting that second hand from some friends who were appalled by the undergraduates they had to teach in the USA, but then I'm been pretty appalled at times elsewhere so it may not be a general case.
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