Tactical weapons research...taking out military targets. That's worth researching. It can make war more humane while making our military force more powerful.
But I don't see any advantages in having nuclear weapons more devasting than what we already have.
They ARE researching tactical nukes. It has been easy to make larger and more powerful nukes. I think China detonated a 100 Megaton or one in the atmosphere at one point. We KNOW NOW how to make larger nukes. Its making small efficient nukes that are hard. Like ones that are weaker than 20 kilotons. (Remember I SAID EFFICIENT). In nuclear weapons, 1-10 kilotons is not that easy to produce without having a lot of fallout. Tactical nukes are on the wish list of weapons.
Remember kiddies, the first nuclear weapon ever used was detonated in New Mexico,U.S.
Really? You can sidestep congress and just pass those things on your own?
Actually, The President can sidestep Congress and use "Execuitive Orders" to do just about anything he dam well pleases. And ALL presidents have used this method for passing things into law quickly. The execuitive branch has the power to overturn it and Congress can always pass a law that (if it isn't vetoed) overturns it. Also, the next President can execuitive order a previous one to oblivion. SO yess, The President can sidestep Congress. It's just usually frowned upon in some cases.
And many more people would have died in WWII if we hadn't of developed it.
And then Reagan went and tripled the debt
I seem to remember he cut inflation from 12% to under 3% and had a low of 0% too.
Besides, Social Security comes in at just under $500 billion (http://www.budgetsim.org/cgi-bin/NBS/report.budge t04.pl#Social%20security)
Why not blame the $280 debt interest on that?
About the only problem the US has had has been 3 mile island. The reactor actually had a melt down and I've gotten more radiation flying than I would have standing outside the plant at the time of the accident. Nuclear can be made very environmetnally friendly as soon as we start recycling the waste. So, yeah. Lets bring on the Nukes, and I wouldn't mind living near one.
As one of my friends enjoys to point out, he never pays any attention to people who say that "Oh no, it's the end of the world, we're going to run out of in X years. Civilization is going to collapse, what will we do." Why may you ask? It's cause people said the exact same thing around 1900 about Whale Oil. And ya know what? We switched to Crude Oil. So when the same thing happens to Crude, we will find something else by then.
Look at what is included in present military:
DoE Nuclear Weapons $17B What Dept. of Energy weapons?
50% NASA $8B NASA is a CIVILIAN operation
International Security $8B
50% Homeland Security $16B
Ex. Off. Pres. $10B
And past military:
Veterans' Benefits $69B - And they complain about homeless vets below too
Interest on National Debt $280B and why do they include this under MILITARY AT ALL
we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated
And we'd all be speaking German, Japanese or Russian right now in the US.
Remember that the STATES, Counties, Cities and We mustn't forget the private religious schools are the main spenders or money when it comes to education. The Federal Government hasn't been in education that long. And there are many who think that education belongs in the hands of the states and below and out of the hands of the feds. So don't compare Federal Education Spending to Federal Deffense Spending. Unless you want to total all the money spent on Education by everyone.
Of course make vehicles and other tools more efficient through technology and consumer choices.
They are more efficient. Think a car from the 70's got 30 miles to the gallon? I don't think so. And mine today gets 30mpg city driving. Just about everything is being made more efficient today as a policy, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT CONSUMERS WANT. Give a factory a chance to buy a piece of equipment that is 1% more electrically efficient when they are replacing old equipment and they will. As long as they will save more money in the efficiency than the equipment costs over the life of the equipment (20 years or more in many cases).
Provide incentives for using electricity in off peak hours of power consumption (or rather penalties for using electricity during peak usage periods.) THere are penalties for using electricity during peak usage periods. For anyone who uses large amounts of Electicity (Factorires, Colleges [dorms,campuses], Office Buildings), it costs more during peak periods than off peak periods (and the more you use the proportionally more you pay) for it. If you want to understand why, its cause the more electricity they have to supply over the power lines the more power loss there is in the lines.
So, moot point, there already is and has been encouragement and penalties for a while now.
More like they've solved something that has been solved before. Repeatedly. I have seen windows progs run on macs. And linux on windows and vice versa. I have yet to see efficient running of mac on Intel/AMD chips.
I'm glad they finally brought back the zips of the packages that don't require install. Me and a couple of people I know like to be able to have a fresh browser for things that we can delete imediately afterwards. Like for sites that require cookies and we want to delete the cookies afterwards.
How would you deal with the income tax?
Flat Tax?
Progressive Tax?
Eliminate it alltogether and go to something else entirely (like a sales tax)?
And most importantly, why would you choose that?
1) you require that the winner be elected by 50+% of the vote, rather than just a simple majority
Last time I checked majority meant greater than 50%. I think what you mean is "rather than more votes than any other person". As to accomplishing this, that would require the elimination of the electoral college altogether, and going to a "Popular Vote" system. Something I am not against. But make sure you phrase what you mean correctly next time.
Note that they only did Intel to Intel or Intel to MAC emulation. When they can allow a Mac program to run effieciently on an Intel chip, I will be impressed. From what I understand, the main problem running Mac software on Intel is that Macs have many many more registers.
Have you ever heard of Larry Niven's "ARM"? In his stories they are the technology police of the UN (who run the planet) and are charged with suppressing all new dangerous technology. (Read as any new technology period). They are the most corrupt organization in his stories.
Well, If canada has 1/5th the gun deaths compared to the US and 1/10th the population, this means that you have twice the gun deaths per capita compared to the US. So, its not Canadas laws that cause fewer deaths, its that you have fewer people.
unless you can come up with a way for every man woman and child on the planet to use 10^28th IP addresses in 10 years, we aint gonna run out of IPs under IPv6 anytime soon. 2^128=3.4E38 addresses.
there will no longer be a need for IP address conservation since there will now be enough IPv6 addresses available for each person on the planet to have 10 of their very own.
Given that there are 128 bits for IPs in IPv6 this translates into 3.4*10^38 IP addresses. I think this comes out to roughly 5.6*10^28 IP addresses per person.
So if some little guy comes up with a way to make gasoline engines get 500 miles to the gallon, weak IP laws would let anyone use it without paying him anything. Weak IP Laws only favor the little guy as long as only the big guys are actually inventing anything new. Otherwise the big guys can just copy what the little guys come up with without paying them a dime. At least with strong IP laws (I DO NOT MEAN INDUCE WHEN I SAY THIS) the little guy will get paid under the law.
I don't think its just file hashing they are suing them for:
Both of these services use unauthorized versions of Kazaa and the underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, and so are using Altnet's patent without permission, the company contends.
This is more like Apple suing a company for taking iTMS and modifying it to prevent other people from using iTMS features, such as the one that lets you listen to toher peoples music on the network. (NOTE: Listen != Download.)
One thing I forgot before. Having the signal interlaced also allows them to double the frame rate. So it is a tradeoff between more lines and higher frame rates. There are reasone for both and it all depends on the application.
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anti-imperialistic self-loathing?
more like anti-colonial.
Tactical weapons research...taking out military targets. That's worth researching. It can make war more humane while making our military force more powerful.
But I don't see any advantages in having nuclear weapons more devasting than what we already have.
They ARE researching tactical nukes. It has been easy to make larger and more powerful nukes. I think China detonated a 100 Megaton or one in the atmosphere at one point. We KNOW NOW how to make larger nukes. Its making small efficient nukes that are hard. Like ones that are weaker than 20 kilotons. (Remember I SAID EFFICIENT). In nuclear weapons, 1-10 kilotons is not that easy to produce without having a lot of fallout. Tactical nukes are on the wish list of weapons.
Remember kiddies, the first nuclear weapon ever used was detonated in New Mexico,U.S.
Really? You can sidestep congress and just pass those things on your own?
Actually, The President can sidestep Congress and use "Execuitive Orders" to do just about anything he dam well pleases. And ALL presidents have used this method for passing things into law quickly. The execuitive branch has the power to overturn it and Congress can always pass a law that (if it isn't vetoed) overturns it. Also, the next President can execuitive order a previous one to oblivion. SO yess, The President can sidestep Congress. It's just usually frowned upon in some cases.
The Manhattan Project cost a BILLION dollars
e t04.pl#Social%20security)
Why not blame the $280 debt interest on that?
And many more people would have died in WWII if we hadn't of developed it.
And then Reagan went and tripled the debt
I seem to remember he cut inflation from 12% to under 3% and had a low of 0% too.
Besides, Social Security comes in at just under $500 billion (http://www.budgetsim.org/cgi-bin/NBS/report.budg
About the only problem the US has had has been 3 mile island. The reactor actually had a melt down and I've gotten more radiation flying than I would have standing outside the plant at the time of the accident. Nuclear can be made very environmetnally friendly as soon as we start recycling the waste. So, yeah. Lets bring on the Nukes, and I wouldn't mind living near one.
Plant trees. They suck out the carbon in the atmosphere.
As one of my friends enjoys to point out, he never pays any attention to people who say that "Oh no, it's the end of the world, we're going to run out of in X years. Civilization is going to collapse, what will we do." Why may you ask? It's cause people said the exact same thing around 1900 about Whale Oil. And ya know what? We switched to Crude Oil. So when the same thing happens to Crude, we will find something else by then.
Look at what is included in present military:
DoE Nuclear Weapons $17B What Dept. of Energy weapons?
50% NASA $8B NASA is a CIVILIAN operation
International Security $8B
50% Homeland Security $16B
Ex. Off. Pres. $10B
And past military:
Veterans' Benefits $69B - And they complain about homeless vets below too
Interest on National Debt $280B and why do they include this under MILITARY AT ALL
we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated
And we'd all be speaking German, Japanese or Russian right now in the US.
Remember that the STATES, Counties, Cities and We mustn't forget the private religious schools are the main spenders or money when it comes to education. The Federal Government hasn't been in education that long. And there are many who think that education belongs in the hands of the states and below and out of the hands of the feds. So don't compare Federal Education Spending to Federal Deffense Spending. Unless you want to total all the money spent on Education by everyone.
Of course make vehicles and other tools more efficient through technology and consumer choices.
They are more efficient. Think a car from the 70's got 30 miles to the gallon? I don't think so. And mine today gets 30mpg city driving. Just about everything is being made more efficient today as a policy, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT CONSUMERS WANT. Give a factory a chance to buy a piece of equipment that is 1% more electrically efficient when they are replacing old equipment and they will. As long as they will save more money in the efficiency than the equipment costs over the life of the equipment (20 years or more in many cases).
Provide incentives for using electricity in off peak hours of power consumption (or rather penalties for using electricity during peak usage periods.)
THere are penalties for using electricity during peak usage periods. For anyone who uses large amounts of Electicity (Factorires, Colleges [dorms,campuses], Office Buildings), it costs more during peak periods than off peak periods (and the more you use the proportionally more you pay) for it. If you want to understand why, its cause the more electricity they have to supply over the power lines the more power loss there is in the lines.
So, moot point, there already is and has been encouragement and penalties for a while now.
More like they've solved something that has been solved before. Repeatedly. I have seen windows progs run on macs. And linux on windows and vice versa. I have yet to see efficient running of mac on Intel/AMD chips.
I'm glad they finally brought back the zips of the packages that don't require install. Me and a couple of people I know like to be able to have a fresh browser for things that we can delete imediately afterwards. Like for sites that require cookies and we want to delete the cookies afterwards.
How would you deal with the income tax?
Flat Tax?
Progressive Tax?
Eliminate it alltogether and go to something else entirely (like a sales tax)?
And most importantly, why would you choose that?
1) you require that the winner be elected by 50+% of the vote, rather than just a simple majority
Last time I checked majority meant greater than 50%. I think what you mean is "rather than more votes than any other person". As to accomplishing this, that would require the elimination of the electoral college altogether, and going to a "Popular Vote" system. Something I am not against. But make sure you phrase what you mean correctly next time.
Note that they only did Intel to Intel or Intel to MAC emulation. When they can allow a Mac program to run effieciently on an Intel chip, I will be impressed. From what I understand, the main problem running Mac software on Intel is that Macs have many many more registers.
Have you ever heard of Larry Niven's "ARM"? In his stories they are the technology police of the UN (who run the planet) and are charged with suppressing all new dangerous technology. (Read as any new technology period). They are the most corrupt organization in his stories.
Well, If canada has 1/5th the gun deaths compared to the US and 1/10th the population, this means that you have twice the gun deaths per capita compared to the US. So, its not Canadas laws that cause fewer deaths, its that you have fewer people.
A novice's greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type
It's called "help" or "-?" or one of a myriad of things.
unless you can come up with a way for every man woman and child on the planet to use 10^28th IP addresses in 10 years, we aint gonna run out of IPs under IPv6 anytime soon. 2^128=3.4E38 addresses.
there will no longer be a need for IP address conservation since there will now be enough IPv6 addresses available for each person on the planet to have 10 of their very own.
Given that there are 128 bits for IPs in IPv6 this translates into 3.4*10^38 IP addresses. I think this comes out to roughly 5.6*10^28 IP addresses per person.
weak IP laws favour the little guy more.
So if some little guy comes up with a way to make gasoline engines get 500 miles to the gallon, weak IP laws would let anyone use it without paying him anything. Weak IP Laws only favor the little guy as long as only the big guys are actually inventing anything new. Otherwise the big guys can just copy what the little guys come up with without paying them a dime. At least with strong IP laws (I DO NOT MEAN INDUCE WHEN I SAY THIS) the little guy will get paid under the law.
I don't think its just file hashing they are suing them for:
Both of these services use unauthorized versions of Kazaa and the underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, and so are using Altnet's patent without permission, the company contends.
This is more like Apple suing a company for taking iTMS and modifying it to prevent other people from using iTMS features, such as the one that lets you listen to toher peoples music on the network. (NOTE: Listen != Download.)
You forgot to include the author so people can find the right copy. Franz Kafka
One thing I forgot before. Having the signal interlaced also allows them to double the frame rate. So it is a tradeoff between more lines and higher frame rates. There are reasone for both and it all depends on the application.
Give it a few weeks and there will be a consumer affordable model.
That is the consumer affordable model. The Broadcast Non-Consumer model goes for at least 10 times that much.