Greed of phone companies is currently a very effective barrier to that. For it to phone home (literally) non-trivial cash has to be put up for each device. That may change and may already be worked around via opportunistic connection to free WiFi if the device is at some point in range, but for now it's a distant worry.
The only problem with that is GWB was largely kept in check by the last vestige of the old GOP guard in the Senate. They didn't do crazy shit.
That "old guard" were pushing to invade Iraq for years and finally got a chance to do it when some Saudis led by a guy given shelter in Afganistan got up to no good. Sounds crazy to me. There is far crazier but I think things will be stuck at that level. It's best to remember that a lot of the really crazy shit is about throwing a spanner in the works when somebody else is running a government, so if they end up as "the dog that caught the bus" they just won't know what to do next such plans. Expect plenty of jobs for cronies and keeping seats warm while pocketing cash.
On the last issue it really depends on how far someone wants to go so while he is technically correct it's pointless. If an enemy wants to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere above the USA as an EMP weapon then there would already be far worse things to worry about.
The commercial software industry pretty well started with Gates and others dumpster diving for other people's code and closing off previously freely available software that other people had written. The figures that are not "wild west" were either giving their stuff away with hardware or publishing it freely from academia.
The same reason they paid a Star Trek set designer to build an operations room. Toy soldiers employed due to who they got drunk with in school playing at being James Bond.
Part of the reasoning behind it back in the bad old days was to stop pedophiles from becoming scout leaders and having an instant way to dismiss them on suspicion. Bigotry was also a thing but that was the main issue. As for the kids being gay, sexuality is supposed to not be an issue in scout activities unless something has gone seriously wrong, but for some reason the bigotry spread to picking on kids as an unintended consequence.
The trouble with SJW in my opinion is that they only destroy, they never create
Of course they do, imaginary strawmen are whatever you want them to be.
That's what the NRA keeps on saying about this place as if "Mad Max" was real. Why don't you and Oliver North of the NRA go off and found your own Kingdom somewhere and get income from selling weapons to terrorists instead of taxation? He's raised money that way before so you've got a head start.
Now that kids is why you don't tell any device that doesn't need to get out on the net what the gateway address is.
If you need to access it via the internet, then fair enough, but now we've got yet another example as to why we should use firewall settings to make sure they can only contact what you want them to contact.
How strange. Maybe I was wrong about the cocaine addled bit, something is definitely wrong and it's not just a limited understanding of the English language. By the way, I live in a place with no estate tax.
Silly language tricks and trying to dumb it down to a "newspeak" sort of phrase like "taxation is theft" is pointless. You are not a cocaine addled former DJ and this is not Fox so you have no excuse to go on like that.
Like it or not we've had civilisation for a few thousand years instead of just hunter gatherers and people have to work together to make it work, with things like taxation and tithing as a symptom of that. It would be nice if we could all help out with barn raisings and so on instead of having to pay tax but society is a little bit too complicated for that to work out.
No because that would be like calling a car a capable horse:) If it's used for the same purpose it's still a different thing.
You've reminded me of a superhero movie where the villian was secretly building a giant capacitor plant instead of a power station. The scriptwriters did not get how awesome such a thing would be and how we could get away from the artifact of base load with such a thing and instead just follow demand without offering discounts for night use etc. Pump storage does that sort of job but is very lossy.
I suggest you enrol to vote and maybe do something about it instead of putting up with that shit. Land of the free my arse. Don't need to wear a seatbelt so have the right to die stupid but you can't have a water tank? If you all got off your backsides and voted those few that play at politics couldn't put such things over on you.
It depends where you live. For some people I know it was 2002 since the utility wanted thousands to run a line in. Now it's looking like it's going to happen in the suburbs in some areas due to blatant price gouging. It may be expensive to go offgrid but it's starting to get to be very expensive to stay on the grid in some areas, especially when you get conflicts of interest with governments having electricity companies as a major source of revenue (eg. in Australia).
True, it's looking like Reagan all over again in terms of popularity but far more scary in terms of what Trump is saying. The only upside is Trump knows he's just spinning bullshit with things like Mexico paying for some sort of wall and all the rest of the blatant salesmanship.
Our enemies in the middle east who take Trump's word as being real probably think Bin Laden has won and America has doomed itself. America is not doomed if Trump wins because the batshit insane suggestions are just "spin" and he'll act like all the other born to old money crony capitalist Republicans instead of some sort of dangerous radical. Expect something like Baby Bush's administration except maybe Trump will turn up for work more often.
It's not confusion it's why the shale companies got some government help in the early stages. While some may scream "corporate welfare" it was a manifestation of a policy to not be so much at the mercy of the actions of other nations. It's often not expressed so plainly because Carter did so and lost in a landslide.
without wrecking the reservoir and leaving the remaining oil unrecoverable
It's a medieval kingdom with a short term view depending on bread and circuses to avoid being lynched. With that in mind, what choice do you think they made? Crushing competition from US shale trumps whatever happens in ten years time.
It took well over a decade of work before they were viable in the first place. It will take less next time but it will still take years. It's not turning on a switch, it's assembling a group of people and equipment after securing the funds to do the task. Getting the funds is going to be difficult due to the previous failure.
when the price gets right we will extract those again and make a killing
I keep hearing that a lot but have not seen it in the last three decades. Even relatively trivial operations such as extracting from a coal fired power stations' ash dam do not seem to be happening.
Subsidizing the dinosaur burning car industry is "corporate welfare" but subsidizing EV ownership is... what exactly?
Giving someone other than an incumbent a chance. Not doing it results in things like Ford and GM sitting around until the Japanese and Europeans showed the consequences of having nothing but complacent incumbents run by trust fund babies.
The question is do we try to have a local industry or do we just wait until China owns the market and sells EVs to us.
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My point is that if someone detonates a nuke over the USA it's not going to be the only thing they do, hence "far worse things to worry about".
Greed of phone companies is currently a very effective barrier to that. For it to phone home (literally) non-trivial cash has to be put up for each device.
That may change and may already be worked around via opportunistic connection to free WiFi if the device is at some point in range, but for now it's a distant worry.
That "old guard" were pushing to invade Iraq for years and finally got a chance to do it when some Saudis led by a guy given shelter in Afganistan got up to no good. Sounds crazy to me. There is far crazier but I think things will be stuck at that level. It's best to remember that a lot of the really crazy shit is about throwing a spanner in the works when somebody else is running a government, so if they end up as "the dog that caught the bus" they just won't know what to do next such plans. Expect plenty of jobs for cronies and keeping seats warm while pocketing cash.
On the last issue it really depends on how far someone wants to go so while he is technically correct it's pointless. If an enemy wants to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere above the USA as an EMP weapon then there would already be far worse things to worry about.
The commercial software industry pretty well started with Gates and others dumpster diving for other people's code and closing off previously freely available software that other people had written. The figures that are not "wild west" were either giving their stuff away with hardware or publishing it freely from academia.
Soon trump will try to put a stop to this.
By deploying an entire Internet of cats?
That's what it's for. We have Cat6 cable now after all.
That generation is dead.
The same reason they paid a Star Trek set designer to build an operations room.
Toy soldiers employed due to who they got drunk with in school playing at being James Bond.
Of course they do, imaginary strawmen are whatever you want them to be.
That's what the NRA keeps on saying about this place as if "Mad Max" was real. Why don't you and Oliver North of the NRA go off and found your own Kingdom somewhere and get income from selling weapons to terrorists instead of taxation? He's raised money that way before so you've got a head start.
Now that kids is why you don't tell any device that doesn't need to get out on the net what the gateway address is.
If you need to access it via the internet, then fair enough, but now we've got yet another example as to why we should use firewall settings to make sure they can only contact what you want them to contact.
How strange. Maybe I was wrong about the cocaine addled bit, something is definitely wrong and it's not just a limited understanding of the English language.
By the way, I live in a place with no estate tax.
Silly language tricks and trying to dumb it down to a "newspeak" sort of phrase like "taxation is theft" is pointless.
You are not a cocaine addled former DJ and this is not Fox so you have no excuse to go on like that.
Like it or not we've had civilisation for a few thousand years instead of just hunter gatherers and people have to work together to make it work, with things like taxation and tithing as a symptom of that. It would be nice if we could all help out with barn raisings and so on instead of having to pay tax but society is a little bit too complicated for that to work out.
No because that would be like calling a car a capable horse :)
If it's used for the same purpose it's still a different thing.
You've reminded me of a superhero movie where the villian was secretly building a giant capacitor plant instead of a power station. The scriptwriters did not get how awesome such a thing would be and how we could get away from the artifact of base load with such a thing and instead just follow demand without offering discounts for night use etc. Pump storage does that sort of job but is very lossy.
I suggest you enrol to vote and maybe do something about it instead of putting up with that shit.
Land of the free my arse. Don't need to wear a seatbelt so have the right to die stupid but you can't have a water tank? If you all got off your backsides and voted those few that play at politics couldn't put such things over on you.
It depends where you live. For some people I know it was 2002 since the utility wanted thousands to run a line in. Now it's looking like it's going to happen in the suburbs in some areas due to blatant price gouging.
It may be expensive to go offgrid but it's starting to get to be very expensive to stay on the grid in some areas, especially when you get conflicts of interest with governments having electricity companies as a major source of revenue (eg. in Australia).
True, it's looking like Reagan all over again in terms of popularity but far more scary in terms of what Trump is saying. The only upside is Trump knows he's just spinning bullshit with things like Mexico paying for some sort of wall and all the rest of the blatant salesmanship.
Our enemies in the middle east who take Trump's word as being real probably think Bin Laden has won and America has doomed itself. America is not doomed if Trump wins because the batshit insane suggestions are just "spin" and he'll act like all the other born to old money crony capitalist Republicans instead of some sort of dangerous radical.
Expect something like Baby Bush's administration except maybe Trump will turn up for work more often.
It's not confusion it's why the shale companies got some government help in the early stages. While some may scream "corporate welfare" it was a manifestation of a policy to not be so much at the mercy of the actions of other nations.
It's often not expressed so plainly because Carter did so and lost in a landslide.
It's a medieval kingdom with a short term view depending on bread and circuses to avoid being lynched. With that in mind, what choice do you think they made? Crushing competition from US shale trumps whatever happens in ten years time.
Yes but not for a few years yet and they are killing their competition along the way.
It took well over a decade of work before they were viable in the first place. It will take less next time but it will still take years. It's not turning on a switch, it's assembling a group of people and equipment after securing the funds to do the task. Getting the funds is going to be difficult due to the previous failure.
I keep hearing that a lot but have not seen it in the last three decades. Even relatively trivial operations such as extracting from a coal fired power stations' ash dam do not seem to be happening.
Precisely.
Only this goes way beyond the usual.
Plus also filling the jobs of all those people who used to operate them but were laid off.
It is a big deal.
Giving someone other than an incumbent a chance. Not doing it results in things like Ford and GM sitting around until the Japanese and Europeans showed the consequences of having nothing but complacent incumbents run by trust fund babies.
The question is do we try to have a local industry or do we just wait until China owns the market and sells EVs to us.
That's going to take a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni