Actually the 'new normal' will soon be charging for those bits. Currently the data is free only because administrators don't realize that there is any actual value to it.
If hospital IT departments weren't such shitholes to work in you might be better staffed. HCA is notorious for underpaying IT staff and understaffing their department. In Anchorage they insisted on paying Lower-48 salaries, with the result that the entire IT department quit the same week. If your manager won't ask to increase head count then he's in the wrong position. If he asked and got turned down then he's working for the wrong employer, as are you.
It doesn't hurt that it creates a revenue stream being able to supply that particular model at an inflated price.
I think that is really the reason for it. Computer manufacturers are notorious for this. We had a critical server down with a failed network card. Compaq tech looked inside, said "That's not a Compaq-brand hard drive in bay 3, I can't touch this machine. Take it out and generate another service call." Three hours later he was back and replaced the NIC with a Compaq-branded card that cost three times what it should, and we were charged for both visits. Turned me off of factory warrantee service forever.
From the viewpoint of residents of the Middle East, Central America, or the former Soviet Union those were just the tiniest of pin pricks of retaliation. If 15 million people had been killed in the World Trade Center attacks then it would have been similar to what the population of Iran experienced under our puppet the Shah. Knock off 40 million Americans and you'd be close to the percentage of the population of Central America killed under Reagan and Bush the Elected. There aren't an awful lot of populations around the world where an attack originating from them could be considered 'unprovoked'.
You have no idea what Marxism actually is, do you? Ever read the Communist Manifesto? In what way does the corporatist banking clique currently running the Democratic party resemble the credo "From each, according to his ability, to each according to his needs"?
Surveys show that the vast majority of people think that NASA and foreign aid take up large portions of the Federal budget, a large percentage think that the two aspects take up almost half the budget. Only a small percentage are aware that the Pentagon sucks up over half of Federal spending.
During Hurricane Katrina the government of Cuba sent a ship full of doctors and medical supplies to New Orleans, and Venezuela sent a small tanker of diesel fuel. The US Navy wouldn't let them inside the 20 mile limit, apparently under orders from DC, even though there were people dieing from lack of medical care and hospitals and shelters had run out of fuel for their generators. Pretty much every major disaster other countries offer aid, and it's very rudely refused every time.
Good grief. One bureaucrat on one trip to the Middle East said that one of several goals of that one trip was to annoy one group of people slightly less than the rest of the buffoons sent from DC do on a regular basis, and the wingnuts wind that up to make it NASA's primary reason for existence. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
If it were up to just the Republicans we wouldn't have either, just a half-funded project that was cancelled as soon as the hardware contractors made their money.
There seems to have been more communication between the different regions of Eurasia and Africa in ancient times than is generally realized. China traded as far away as Timbuktu, Marco Polo met Greek engineers in China, spices from India and Indonesia were used in Papal kitchens in the Vatican, tin from Britain was used in Greek bronze, African gold was used in Chinese coinage. Even jade from the Americas showed up in China and American pepper plants in Siam. If goods can travel then so can books and ideas.
What I want to know is when it changed from being "in orbit" to being "on orbit" and why? You can certainly be in a certain orbit, but AFAIK it's impossible to be on an orbit. For some bizarre reason the latter has become more popular the last few years.
To me, "Works with NEST" means "trivially hackable". I have trouble believing that they've come up with a more secure control system than the security and access control companies, and those can be intercepted. Is Nest going to investigate when your house goes offline like a professional security provider will? No.
Care to elaborate? More CO2 prevents heat from radiating into space, the atmosphere warms up. Most of the heating is happening in the ocean. With less temperature differential the oceans are not able to exchange the heat they acquire. Warm surface water cycles into the depths, average temperature of the ocean, and the planet, rises. And continues to rise as long as the ocean is unable to dump the extra heat. Or is there some magical mystical way that the additional heat is not accumulating?
The OP just asked about Tea Party and liberals and I wouldn't consider the Teabaggers "actual conservatives", they're the right's radical wing. I haven't been close enough to the conservative movement to really say whether as a group they wanted real campaign reform or just window dressing like the GOP leadership.
In the Pacific Northwest blackberries have overrun huge expanses of land. When the berries fall off and start to ferment birds of all kinds (including those that don't normally eat much fruit) will congregate and gorge themselves. It's hilarious watching a pheasant stagger to his feet, attempt to take off and crash into a bush.
Look up the definition of 'statistical outlier' and you have your explanation as to why they say that. 1998 was the hottest year on record, so to start counting from there is deliberately dishonest on their part. The trend over the last century and a half that good records exist is clearly upwards.
It's already too late to "make these changes not take place." If we magically stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow it would still be a century before the excess we have already put up there will finally be cycled out into carbonate rocks, peat, and such. Even more fun, the excess heat is cumulative, we're not getting rid of as much as we should and it's just going to build up. Scariest of all is that we seem to be exceeding the temperature that keeps the subsurface methane clathrates stable.
So no, we probably don't have 200 years to deal with it.
Teabaggers will complain about any intrusion into the multinational corporations' god-given right to spend money any way they want. Actual liberals have been crying for campaign finance reform for decades, but the DNC has a stranglehold on control of the party so no movement is likely from that side either.
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You know what they call the guy who graduates dead last in his class at medical school? Doctor.
Actually the 'new normal' will soon be charging for those bits. Currently the data is free only because administrators don't realize that there is any actual value to it.
If hospital IT departments weren't such shitholes to work in you might be better staffed. HCA is notorious for underpaying IT staff and understaffing their department. In Anchorage they insisted on paying Lower-48 salaries, with the result that the entire IT department quit the same week. If your manager won't ask to increase head count then he's in the wrong position. If he asked and got turned down then he's working for the wrong employer, as are you.
It doesn't hurt that it creates a revenue stream being able to supply that particular model at an inflated price.
I think that is really the reason for it. Computer manufacturers are notorious for this. We had a critical server down with a failed network card. Compaq tech looked inside, said "That's not a Compaq-brand hard drive in bay 3, I can't touch this machine. Take it out and generate another service call." Three hours later he was back and replaced the NIC with a Compaq-branded card that cost three times what it should, and we were charged for both visits. Turned me off of factory warrantee service forever.
From the viewpoint of residents of the Middle East, Central America, or the former Soviet Union those were just the tiniest of pin pricks of retaliation. If 15 million people had been killed in the World Trade Center attacks then it would have been similar to what the population of Iran experienced under our puppet the Shah. Knock off 40 million Americans and you'd be close to the percentage of the population of Central America killed under Reagan and Bush the Elected. There aren't an awful lot of populations around the world where an attack originating from them could be considered 'unprovoked'.
Ah, so you haven't read it. It's not that long, check it out. Certainly better-written and more interesting than 'Atlas Shrugged'.
So he's not stupid, just evil. I think I'd prefer stupid.
You have no idea what Marxism actually is, do you? Ever read the Communist Manifesto? In what way does the corporatist banking clique currently running the Democratic party resemble the credo "From each, according to his ability, to each according to his needs"?
Bill Clinton is still the best conservative president of my lifetime. For that matter, the only conservative that wasn't utterly incompetent.
The S&M market?
large portions of the Federal budget
Social Security and Medicaid are not budget items, they're trust funds. Interest is not a budget item either.
Surveys show that the vast majority of people think that NASA and foreign aid take up large portions of the Federal budget, a large percentage think that the two aspects take up almost half the budget. Only a small percentage are aware that the Pentagon sucks up over half of Federal spending.
During Hurricane Katrina the government of Cuba sent a ship full of doctors and medical supplies to New Orleans, and Venezuela sent a small tanker of diesel fuel. The US Navy wouldn't let them inside the 20 mile limit, apparently under orders from DC, even though there were people dieing from lack of medical care and hospitals and shelters had run out of fuel for their generators. Pretty much every major disaster other countries offer aid, and it's very rudely refused every time.
Good grief. One bureaucrat on one trip to the Middle East said that one of several goals of that one trip was to annoy one group of people slightly less than the rest of the buffoons sent from DC do on a regular basis, and the wingnuts wind that up to make it NASA's primary reason for existence. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
If it were up to just the Republicans we wouldn't have either, just a half-funded project that was cancelled as soon as the hardware contractors made their money.
There seems to have been more communication between the different regions of Eurasia and Africa in ancient times than is generally realized. China traded as far away as Timbuktu, Marco Polo met Greek engineers in China, spices from India and Indonesia were used in Papal kitchens in the Vatican, tin from Britain was used in Greek bronze, African gold was used in Chinese coinage. Even jade from the Americas showed up in China and American pepper plants in Siam. If goods can travel then so can books and ideas.
What I want to know is when it changed from being "in orbit" to being "on orbit" and why? You can certainly be in a certain orbit, but AFAIK it's impossible to be on an orbit. For some bizarre reason the latter has become more popular the last few years.
I believe that would make archive.org fall under the same classification as libraries then.
To me, "Works with NEST" means "trivially hackable". I have trouble believing that they've come up with a more secure control system than the security and access control companies, and those can be intercepted. Is Nest going to investigate when your house goes offline like a professional security provider will? No.
Care to elaborate? More CO2 prevents heat from radiating into space, the atmosphere warms up. Most of the heating is happening in the ocean. With less temperature differential the oceans are not able to exchange the heat they acquire. Warm surface water cycles into the depths, average temperature of the ocean, and the planet, rises. And continues to rise as long as the ocean is unable to dump the extra heat. Or is there some magical mystical way that the additional heat is not accumulating?
In what way am I "misunderstanding the problem"?
The OP just asked about Tea Party and liberals and I wouldn't consider the Teabaggers "actual conservatives", they're the right's radical wing. I haven't been close enough to the conservative movement to really say whether as a group they wanted real campaign reform or just window dressing like the GOP leadership.
In the Pacific Northwest blackberries have overrun huge expanses of land. When the berries fall off and start to ferment birds of all kinds (including those that don't normally eat much fruit) will congregate and gorge themselves. It's hilarious watching a pheasant stagger to his feet, attempt to take off and crash into a bush.
Look up the definition of 'statistical outlier' and you have your explanation as to why they say that. 1998 was the hottest year on record, so to start counting from there is deliberately dishonest on their part. The trend over the last century and a half that good records exist is clearly upwards.
It's already too late to "make these changes not take place." If we magically stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow it would still be a century before the excess we have already put up there will finally be cycled out into carbonate rocks, peat, and such. Even more fun, the excess heat is cumulative, we're not getting rid of as much as we should and it's just going to build up. Scariest of all is that we seem to be exceeding the temperature that keeps the subsurface methane clathrates stable.
So no, we probably don't have 200 years to deal with it.
Teabaggers will complain about any intrusion into the multinational corporations' god-given right to spend money any way they want. Actual liberals have been crying for campaign finance reform for decades, but the DNC has a stranglehold on control of the party so no movement is likely from that side either.