i dont think i've come across one educated person who claims wind alone could replace both coal and nuclear power.
i do believe that if both wind AND solar were properly harnessed, and a real push were made to move our energy base from decomposed dinosaurs toward hydrogen based.. i believe we could replace most or all coal plants while also powering our automobiles with hydrogen.
Lets face it, we will still need regional sources of power for night time / non-peak production. Nuclear would be ideal for this--while producing hydrogen with the juice that is not being utilized. Hell, maybe people will then get into the "spirit" of conserving energy when they realize their car fuel is being produced by the same means as their electricial bill and heating/cooling bill.
If politicians had the balls to step up and implement something like this on a 30 year plan, it would be entirely feaseable. Instead, their trying to do the "popular" thing which means not imposing any kind of personal expense on taxpayers. all so that they remain "popular" with the voters, and they keep their easy job of slacking and signing a few things here and there, while backing some bill that their sponcers support.
multibillion dollar corporations dont care about those crimes. therefore, the government does not care.
corrupt form the top down.
government, big business, media (which is sort of BBusiness). their having a wild Menage a Trois, and the people are oblivious to it or just no longer care.
by broadcasting out our location (which we already are doing to a degree) we are saying *fresh planet, ripe for the picking* because you KNOW if they have the technology to come to you in a speedy fashion.... odds are that if they want your planet... they will have it.
but, on the flip side.... assuming there is no "worm hole/warp" technology involved... they get our signal at the speed of light, and even if they could move at 1/10 the speed of light.... there are many solar systems in our galaxy which are MILLIONS of light years away.. so unless their close to start off with (and VERY quiet when we're talking about interstellar noise).... by the time they get to us, we will have had a lot of time for our technology to advance.
that or we'll all have killed ourselves off, and they just inherit a ripe planet...full of monkeys which are in the equivalent feudal age... perfect for enslaving
I fail to see how sharing my wife, home, money, car, and clothes have anything to do with sharing an internet connection?
you dont lose anything tangible if you share an internet connection properly.
its simple: IPSEC (or VPN) your own connection while letting others through unencrypted. if you use WEP, you're screwed from the start if you want privacy, so why pretend.
I plan on implementing a setup verymuch like this in the near future. the only deviance to this will be bandwith throtteling for the unencrypted packets. *GRIN* just incase i get a greedy neighbor.
many people refer to "the internet" as "the web" because it is an interconnecting network which relays information across the interconnecting sections.
a WEB is interconnecting and for the spider, its information is rlayed across these interconnecting sections.
ps: you sound like the grammar nazi who taugh my senior year of nighschool. definitions and english EVOLVE as years go by. deal with it.
Are there any non-profit insurance companies out there? I ask because i find it annoying that we have a tax mandated by the government, yet paid out to private entities.
I do not doubt that insurance companies will try and mandate this as soon as they can convince enough to use it, and it becomes relatively inexpensive to implement en mass.
I would rather spend my money on a non-profit company--i feel they would be less likely they'll ream you trying to make every last buck they can.
from your post: "Frankly I think it's reasonable for a company to "own" my thoughts as related to the core business of that company, and any development activities that pertain to it."
what if its a company like GE? they have their hands in EVERYTHING. I dont think they really have a core business, aside form the GE brandname on probabyl thousands of items. Dont ki yourself if you are going to say GE is an exception. Corproations are continually getting bigger, not smaller.
saying a person should "shop around" for the perfect employer is a bit easier said than done. People with bills to pay, a family to feed, etc, do not always have such a luxory to choose who they want to employ them. over half (i think its quite higher qactually) of all employed people are discontent in their positions. If they are unhappy, dont you think they would change employers if they could get a better one?
its a tricky issue. i agree that if you're employed to think up new design ideas for a car or program or something--then while you are on the job you are obligated to provide what you thought.
If you think of somethign while at home--that is indeed a tricky thing if its directly related to the same car or same application. If its unrelated to work you are currently doing for the company, the employer should have no recourse.
to me, this could be interpereted a couple of different ways:
1.) while you are an employee of said company. 2.) While you are "on the job" or "on company time" (getting paid for your time) at the company.
to me, #1 would be essentially enslaving the persons mind. i dont believe this would be a good option to legalise. For starters, the working population would never agree to such terms if they were flat out offered the kind of future where you very thoughts are not owned by yourself, but corporations are immortal--meaning they have all the time in the world to gradually implement a policy that "the people" will not initially like. it can be implemented first to their most important thinktanks for huge salaries. but it will eventually trickle down to the lowest people--they will just offer lower base salaries. From some quick calculations, with minium wage, it'd take around $62,500 to enslave a mind for a year. Not a lot by corporate standards.
now i dont actually own a cellphone, nor have i ever. i am consitering one though.
its true that i consiter a camera very unappealing. games? who cares, i dont need em. Texting, who cares, but i would tolderate it, its a way to communicate in a omewhat quiet setting w/o annoying the piss out of everyone around you.
What i would find handy is a pda function of being able to write a quick note to myself to remind me about something at such and such a time.
Lastly, call me vain, if i got a cell phone, i would want to be able to use a custom tune for my ringtone (i wouldnt want the capability to store more than 1 song). It drives me crazy when I hear a generic ring, and 5 people look around like deer in headlights, then they all start checking their phones to see if its theirs.
what do you want? Just saying raid can be very vague. Raid can range from no redundancy of data, or quite good redundancy.
that being said---i hope you're talking business needs here--a system with ten 250 GB drives is some serious storage space--not to mention a serious power bill
drives dont take up a ton individually, but ten of them will take up a good amount of juice. you may need very high end or redundant PS too--also, if i'm not mistaken, SATA will use less power than parallel drives--something to consider.
if you have a wad of cash just lying around, and you're wanting to buy "far more storage space than you will expect to need" then you are truely wasting your money. i'd just get a bit more than what you will expect to need within a couple years time, and then just rebuild the the thing a few years later when you actually need more space. the increase in storage space you will get a couple years from now will blow away what you currently can get. Just something to consiter.
On second thought, those warez servers on a fat pipe can fil up fast--ya may as well be prepared.
ideally, yes, only recovering addicts who WANT IT, should be given this.
i have a funny feeling that eventually some self rightous parents will decide they know whats best for their children, and push to legalise it so that parents can have their children immunised.
side effects--who cares! we can protect the children from drugs! drugs are bad! BAD BAD! satanic bad!... Arg, its time to go to my doctor now, this headache is killing me, and the asprin just isnt working.
its doubtful that the average person who uses a library will prefer to listen to classical music half of the time.
Its a shame that this happened, if there was more modern music in the libraries, then youth may be more willing to go there willingly.
"For God's sake, will they ever learn and stop acting like spoiled children?"
Do you know of any spoiled children that just one day became cultured or respectable? I sure dont. Generally, it takes some life altering experience before a spoiled, well-off individual will take a look back and realise how well-off they really were--and that maybe they dont have to be a fecal matter hole to everyone else to enjoy what they have.
i love the fact that our govt expects soldiers to use military items which are known to have significant health risks in the near and long term.
its one thing to put our soldiers into situations where the enemy may cause harm to the soldiers, but when our government(military) promotes (mandates) the use of items, equipment, chemicals, etc which are known to cause long term harm to the soldiers, i think we have to question the morals of those who are in charge of this country.
and no i am not referring to just these potentially new rations--the military has a chronic record of exposing out troops to known dangers.
I do agree with you--after blowing iraq's infrastructure to bits, and toppeling their government--we CAN NOT pull out until iraq is stabalized.
I am highly critical of our government's course of action. If we are trying to help Iraq, then why are we using weapons that are poisoning their cities?
One more thing i would like to correct my first post: While we did not initilly invade iraq on the premesis of "helping iraq". We invaded because we were told that iraq posed an immediate danger to the US. That if we did not take out saddam--a WMD strike would be imminent on us soil. the whole "helping the people" got brough into the mix after we found out he had jack for weapons.
(either way, i was highly against the war)
this poster threat is currently marked as flaimbait, but this prettymuch the truth.
DU is some nasty stuff, and US troops are highly advised against going anywhere NEAR places they shot up with DU rounds.
Depleted is not truely depleted--its 60% as radioactive are uranium ore. thats still pretty radioactive.
I find it shameful that the US is not only exposing our troops to this known danger, but its also shooting this stuff in iraq cities!
I fear that in 10-20 years, after iraq has (mostly) stabalised--the people of iraq will hate us for poisoning their cities.
I dont care how much of a military benifit DU has. its costs are too high when you factor in the aftermath--ESPECIALLY IN A COUNTRY WE ARE (supposedly) TRYING TO HELP!
I tend to believe software patents in software, as a rule, are bad.
user interface patents and methods of business in particular are abhorent. one click patents, double click patents--PuHLEASE! there's no inovation there.
you are correct that solar may have cloudy days and turbines can face calm days.
but just think for a moment--solar still generates SOME power on cloudy days. turbines can produce some energy as well on the days that arent ideal. i dont know at what point turbines become useless, but it has to be a pretty calm day.
The point is it mitigate your resources in many locations. if every roof had had solar panels over their shingles, and every telephone/power pole had a mini turbine ontop of it, then i ask you--how often is it pitch black and dead calm out EVERYWHERE--night time?--even then the clam is usually localised.
clouds move, and so do wind patterns. energy can be shipped from the sunny spots to the cloudy, and so on and so forth.
Excess energy from all of those turbines and roofs---well if we ever get to a hydrogen economy--there wont be such a thing--it will go toward electrolosis for hydrogen production.
speratic nuclear plants can pickup the energy needs of nighttime hours and such--hell if it was a true hydrogen economy, people would just use some hyrdogen to make their electricity, also, maybe we'd see an end to the excessive use of streetlights littering towns and cities. Their great untill about 10:00 pm, but cmon, after that its an annoyance.
nuclear has and will continue to have its place, but in my opinion it should be used as a backup for when the more "green" methods cant put out enough juice.
4 weeks later you're driving down the highway and you hit a pothole, and your car just falls apart right as you hit the potole. I'm talking weels fall off, doors fall off, classic cartoon fall apart style.
luckily, the car does not maim you--but you happen to have the painting of the mona lisa in your back seat, and it gets destroyed.
Would you claim that ford owes you for the car AND the mona lisa?
or would you just take it and say. "aah, those potholes. I knew they were on the road, but sheesh! i should have known better not to hit that thing--regardless if i was boxed in such that i couldnt even swerve to miss it"
potholes are a part of life on a road. Some places have fewer, some have more, you can sometimes miss them--but when you enevitable hit one--Sure, a particularily bad one may misalign the wheel, perhaps damage the tire, but i would EXPECT nothing worse than that to happen. i would be outraged if my whole damn car fell apart after hitting a pothole, and also caused damage to my property.
i choose to record to an encrypted file where the password is chosent by/dev/random
"yessir your honour, we did record the broadcast, and it is right here. the only prolem is we encryptped the contents, and we dont know the password--you are, however, welcome to brute force it"
You are correct, there are many people who simply wish to freeload.
at the same time, there are many more who believe that software (in general) is highly overpriced, and thus they are being severely ripped off (and will not tolerate being ripped off).
People will tend to buy what their familiar with:
OS $200 office suite $400 Antivirus package 40/yr. Internet Access 120-500/yr.
Looking it at through most users eyes, You're looking at a minium of $800 in nothing tangible in their first year of having their PC. This is just for the 'essentials' a computer should have.
compare that price to the $500 their friend can build a good "barebones" pc for them, and its no wonder people feel that their getting ripped off.
Look at it this way: $800 for 4 cd's vs $500 for a whole pc!
If companies sold software to consumers at the price that they sell to OEM's, a lot more people would be a lot more willing to shell out for their favorite software package. at least, that is what i believe.
i have no links, but i seem to recall after one of the deep blue matches a few years back, the human commented to the effect that some of the plays the computer made--it made the player wonder if there was truely an intelligence playing against him, because the route (trap) the computer setup became so utterly unique to what this player had experienced before in any computer or human chess game.
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i dont think i've come across one educated person who claims wind alone could replace both coal and nuclear power.
.. i believe we could replace most or all coal plants while also powering our automobiles with hydrogen.
i do believe that if both wind AND solar were properly harnessed, and a real push were made to move our energy base from decomposed dinosaurs toward hydrogen based
Lets face it, we will still need regional sources of power for night time / non-peak production. Nuclear would be ideal for this--while producing hydrogen with the juice that is not being utilized. Hell, maybe people will then get into the "spirit" of conserving energy when they realize their car fuel is being produced by the same means as their electricial bill and heating/cooling bill.
If politicians had the balls to step up and implement something like this on a 30 year plan, it would be entirely feaseable. Instead, their trying to do the "popular" thing which means not imposing any kind of personal expense on taxpayers. all so that they remain "popular" with the voters, and they keep their easy job of slacking and signing a few things here and there, while backing some bill that their sponcers support.
dont be silly.
multibillion dollar corporations dont care about those crimes. therefore, the government does not care.
corrupt form the top down.
government, big business, media (which is sort of BBusiness). their having a wild Menage a Trois, and the people are oblivious to it or just no longer care.
on the flip side.
by broadcasting out our location (which we already are doing to a degree) we are saying *fresh planet, ripe for the picking* because you KNOW if they have the technology to come to you in a speedy fashion.... odds are that if they want your planet... they will have it.
but, on the flip side.... assuming there is no "worm hole/warp" technology involved... they get our signal at the speed of light, and even if they could move at 1/10 the speed of light.... there are many solar systems in our galaxy which are MILLIONS of light years away.. so unless their close to start off with (and VERY quiet when we're talking about interstellar noise).... by the time they get to us, we will have had a lot of time for our technology to advance.
that or we'll all have killed ourselves off, and they just inherit a ripe planet...full of monkeys which are in the equivalent feudal age... perfect for enslaving
I fail to see how sharing my wife, home, money, car, and clothes have anything to do with sharing an internet connection?
you dont lose anything tangible if you share an internet connection properly.
its simple: IPSEC (or VPN) your own connection while letting others through unencrypted. if you use WEP, you're screwed from the start if you want privacy, so why pretend.
I plan on implementing a setup verymuch like this in the near future. the only deviance to this will be bandwith throtteling for the unencrypted packets. *GRIN* just incase i get a greedy neighbor.
many people refer to "the internet" as "the web" because it is an interconnecting network which relays information across the interconnecting sections.
a WEB is interconnecting and for the spider, its information is rlayed across these interconnecting sections.
ps:
you sound like the grammar nazi who taugh my senior year of nighschool. definitions and english EVOLVE as years go by. deal with it.
Are there any non-profit insurance companies out there? I ask because i find it annoying that we have a tax mandated by the government, yet paid out to private entities.
I do not doubt that insurance companies will try and mandate this as soon as they can convince enough to use it, and it becomes relatively inexpensive to implement en mass.
I would rather spend my money on a non-profit company--i feel they would be less likely they'll ream you trying to make every last buck they can.
from your post: "Frankly I think it's reasonable for a company to "own" my thoughts as related to the core business of that company, and any development activities that pertain to it."
what if its a company like GE? they have their hands in EVERYTHING. I dont think they really have a core business, aside form the GE brandname on probabyl thousands of items. Dont ki yourself if you are going to say GE is an exception. Corproations are continually getting bigger, not smaller.
saying a person should "shop around" for the perfect employer is a bit easier said than done. People with bills to pay, a family to feed, etc, do not always have such a luxory to choose who they want to employ them. over half (i think its quite higher qactually) of all employed people are discontent in their positions. If they are unhappy, dont you think they would change employers if they could get a better one?
its a tricky issue. i agree that if you're employed to think up new design ideas for a car or program or something--then while you are on the job you are obligated to provide what you thought.
If you think of somethign while at home--that is indeed a tricky thing if its directly related to the same car or same application. If its unrelated to work you are currently doing for the company, the employer should have no recourse.
"while employed here"
to me, this could be interpereted a couple of different ways:
1.) while you are an employee of said company.
2.) While you are "on the job" or "on company time" (getting paid for your time) at the company.
to me, #1 would be essentially enslaving the persons mind. i dont believe this would be a good option to legalise. For starters, the working population would never agree to such terms if they were flat out offered the kind of future where you very thoughts are not owned by yourself, but corporations are immortal--meaning they have all the time in the world to gradually implement a policy that "the people" will not initially like. it can be implemented first to their most important thinktanks for huge salaries. but it will eventually trickle down to the lowest people--they will just offer lower base salaries. From some quick calculations, with minium wage, it'd take around $62,500 to enslave a mind for a year. Not a lot by corporate standards.
now i dont actually own a cellphone, nor have i ever. i am consitering one though. its true that i consiter a camera very unappealing. games? who cares, i dont need em. Texting, who cares, but i would tolderate it, its a way to communicate in a omewhat quiet setting w/o annoying the piss out of everyone around you. What i would find handy is a pda function of being able to write a quick note to myself to remind me about something at such and such a time. Lastly, call me vain, if i got a cell phone, i would want to be able to use a custom tune for my ringtone (i wouldnt want the capability to store more than 1 song). It drives me crazy when I hear a generic ring, and 5 people look around like deer in headlights, then they all start checking their phones to see if its theirs.
what do you want? Just saying raid can be very vague. Raid can range from no redundancy of data, or quite good redundancy.
that being said---i hope you're talking business needs here--a system with ten 250 GB drives is some serious storage space--not to mention a serious power bill
drives dont take up a ton individually, but ten of them will take up a good amount of juice. you may need very high end or redundant PS too--also, if i'm not mistaken, SATA will use less power than parallel drives--something to consider.
if you have a wad of cash just lying around, and you're wanting to buy "far more storage space than you will expect to need" then you are truely wasting your money. i'd just get a bit more than what you will expect to need within a couple years time, and then just rebuild the the thing a few years later when you actually need more space. the increase in storage space you will get a couple years from now will blow away what you currently can get. Just something to consiter.
On second thought, those warez servers on a fat pipe can fil up fast--ya may as well be prepared.
ideally, yes, only recovering addicts who WANT IT, should be given this.
... Arg, its time to go to my doctor now, this headache is killing me, and the asprin just isnt working.
i have a funny feeling that eventually some self rightous parents will decide they know whats best for their children, and push to legalise it so that parents can have their children immunised.
side effects--who cares! we can protect the children from drugs! drugs are bad! BAD BAD! satanic bad!
its doubtful that the average person who uses a library will prefer to listen to classical music half of the time. Its a shame that this happened, if there was more modern music in the libraries, then youth may be more willing to go there willingly.
"For God's sake, will they ever learn and stop acting like spoiled children?"
Do you know of any spoiled children that just one day became cultured or respectable? I sure dont. Generally, it takes some life altering experience before a spoiled, well-off individual will take a look back and realise how well-off they really were--and that maybe they dont have to be a fecal matter hole to everyone else to enjoy what they have.
i love the fact that our govt expects soldiers to use military items which are known to have significant health risks in the near and long term. its one thing to put our soldiers into situations where the enemy may cause harm to the soldiers, but when our government(military) promotes (mandates) the use of items, equipment, chemicals, etc which are known to cause long term harm to the soldiers, i think we have to question the morals of those who are in charge of this country. and no i am not referring to just these potentially new rations--the military has a chronic record of exposing out troops to known dangers.
Bush: tastes like chicken!
Kerry: the other white meat!
dont be silly, we're not the cattle of the universe. we have dexterous fingers, an opposable thumb (i think thats the term)!
we are no cattle of the universe--but we would probably make damn good slaves to cater to our new overlord's every need!
I do agree with you--after blowing iraq's infrastructure to bits, and toppeling their government--we CAN NOT pull out until iraq is stabalized. I am highly critical of our government's course of action. If we are trying to help Iraq, then why are we using weapons that are poisoning their cities? One more thing i would like to correct my first post: While we did not initilly invade iraq on the premesis of "helping iraq". We invaded because we were told that iraq posed an immediate danger to the US. That if we did not take out saddam--a WMD strike would be imminent on us soil. the whole "helping the people" got brough into the mix after we found out he had jack for weapons. (either way, i was highly against the war)
this poster threat is currently marked as flaimbait, but this prettymuch the truth. DU is some nasty stuff, and US troops are highly advised against going anywhere NEAR places they shot up with DU rounds. Depleted is not truely depleted--its 60% as radioactive are uranium ore. thats still pretty radioactive. I find it shameful that the US is not only exposing our troops to this known danger, but its also shooting this stuff in iraq cities! I fear that in 10-20 years, after iraq has (mostly) stabalised--the people of iraq will hate us for poisoning their cities. I dont care how much of a military benifit DU has. its costs are too high when you factor in the aftermath--ESPECIALLY IN A COUNTRY WE ARE (supposedly) TRYING TO HELP!
I tend to believe software patents in software, as a rule, are bad. user interface patents and methods of business in particular are abhorent. one click patents, double click patents--PuHLEASE! there's no inovation there.
what kind of repair is needed on regular a regular basis? I kind of assumed that wind turbines were pretty low maintinance.
you are correct that solar may have cloudy days and turbines can face calm days.
but just think for a moment--solar still generates SOME power on cloudy days. turbines can produce some energy as well on the days that arent ideal. i dont know at what point turbines become useless, but it has to be a pretty calm day.
The point is it mitigate your resources in many locations. if every roof had had solar panels over their shingles, and every telephone/power pole had a mini turbine ontop of it, then i ask you--how often is it pitch black and dead calm out EVERYWHERE--night time?--even then the clam is usually localised.
clouds move, and so do wind patterns. energy can be shipped from the sunny spots to the cloudy, and so on and so forth.
Excess energy from all of those turbines and roofs---well if we ever get to a hydrogen economy--there wont be such a thing--it will go toward electrolosis for hydrogen production.
speratic nuclear plants can pickup the energy needs of nighttime hours and such--hell if it was a true hydrogen economy, people would just use some hyrdogen to make their electricity, also, maybe we'd see an end to the excessive use of streetlights littering towns and cities. Their great untill about 10:00 pm, but cmon, after that its an annoyance.
nuclear has and will continue to have its place, but in my opinion it should be used as a backup for when the more "green" methods cant put out enough juice.
ok, so you buy a sporty ford road car.
4 weeks later you're driving down the highway and you hit a pothole, and your car just falls apart right as you hit the potole. I'm talking weels fall off, doors fall off, classic cartoon fall apart style.
luckily, the car does not maim you--but you happen to have the painting of the mona lisa in your back seat, and it gets destroyed.
Would you claim that ford owes you for the car AND the mona lisa?
or would you just take it and say. "aah, those potholes. I knew they were on the road, but sheesh! i should have known better not to hit that thing--regardless if i was boxed in such that i couldnt even swerve to miss it"
potholes are a part of life on a road. Some places have fewer, some have more, you can sometimes miss them--but when you enevitable hit one--Sure, a particularily bad one may misalign the wheel, perhaps damage the tire, but i would EXPECT nothing worse than that to happen. i would be outraged if my whole damn car fell apart after hitting a pothole, and also caused damage to my property.
i choose to record to an encrypted file where the password is chosent by /dev/random
"yessir your honour, we did record the broadcast, and it is right here. the only prolem is we encryptped the contents, and we dont know the password--you are, however, welcome to brute force it"
You are correct, there are many people who simply wish to freeload.
at the same time, there are many more who believe that software (in general) is highly overpriced, and thus they are being severely ripped off (and will not tolerate being ripped off).
People will tend to buy what their familiar with:
OS $200
office suite $400
Antivirus package 40/yr.
Internet Access 120-500/yr.
Looking it at through most users eyes, You're looking at a minium of $800 in nothing tangible in their first year of having their PC. This is just for the 'essentials' a computer should have.
compare that price to the $500 their friend can build a good "barebones" pc for them, and its no wonder people feel that their getting ripped off.
Look at it this way: $800 for 4 cd's vs $500 for a whole pc!
If companies sold software to consumers at the price that they sell to OEM's, a lot more people would be a lot more willing to shell out for their favorite software package. at least, that is what i believe.
i have no links, but i seem to recall after one of the deep blue matches a few years back, the human commented to the effect that some of the plays the computer made--it made the player wonder if there was truely an intelligence playing against him, because the route (trap) the computer setup became so utterly unique to what this player had experienced before in any computer or human chess game.