The problem is the trap you've fallen into. Once we don't need to pay for the wars, taxes should go down (or at least borrowing should go down. But inflation is a kind of tax...). Each item in the budget should stand on it's own, not as a way of padding the baseline budgeting.
I do believe that you are wrong. How much money or time have you donated to NASA? For most americans, the answer is, "none." Have you even bought any swag at the gift shop?
What kind of support do you give? Blog posts don't pay for an engineer's kids braces.
Eh.. that's basically the formula of "Lost." And looking at Abrams' wikipedia page I can see a number of shows that started off looking like they'd be good stories and then screwed up the ending because they clearly didn't know what they were going to do until five minutes before they started filming.
Interesting. Thanks for the tip. I'll remember to put my thumb over the "gimme" star next time I'm looking for stuff on amazon. (hmm. maybe I can come up with a CSS override...)
The fed only shows up if they find something incriminating. I don't really care what you do if you're an actual criminal and you're just trying to get away with stuff. Quick-draw a finger-gun at them if you want.
If they don't find anything incriminating, then your rights are violated without you ever knowing. How will you give them the finger *then*...
Well what is it doing? Calculating bitcoins? The C&C is encrypted, but the shady things it does cannot be. Just look for a lot of SMTP traffic in leet-case, or other signs of it trying to interact with the "outside" world.
No, it takes away powers that the parents had, as the sole source of certain video games for minors. Now that minors can go behind their parents' backs and buy the games, parents' role in "taking responsibility for their kids" has become that much more difficult.
You really should have read the law, and the decision. including the dissent. Clarence Thomas, for instance, made some very salient points.
All we'd lose is the plutonium and we really don't need more nuclear weapons
Perhaps, but we're already scraping the bottom of the barrel just to reclaim enough plutonium for RTG's for deep space probes. There are only so many isotopes that are good for that, most all of which have weapons applications, and solar power is really only viable out to roughly mars orbit, so there is an ongoing need for sources of plutonium.
Yeah, we should go back to basics. We don't need all the power-using machinery to provide our modern conveniences. Why look at the ancient Greeks! They lived a lot like we do today (*), without even inventing a practical steam engine, and not for lack of knowledge, either. They just didn't need to, what with all the slaves and all..
*as long as you weren't a slave. And owned land. And slaves....
Deaths aside, you can only accommodate so many 1,000 square kilometer exclusion zones. You need to make sure that the rate those areas are eventually reclaimed is equal to or better than the rate at which they are created.
They get away with it because Inter-Library Loan mitigates the issue. It's similar to how your town's traffic laws continue to be unjust (and in some places unsafe) due to capricious enforcement. There is just enough of a way to get around the issue that the easiest path is just to suck it up and deal rather than address the underlying problem.
But the Tsunami was not an independent event. An undersea earthquake near that location of *any* size would've caused a tsunami of some size, and the site of the plant was close enough to the water that maybe half of any nearby earthquakes would've had associated tsunamis.
The problem was that a plant designed to withstand a 100 year earthquake was operated for half a hundred years and got hit by a 100 year earthquake - that happened to be an undersea earthquake. Designing for only a "once in 100 years disaster" was the real flaw.
Roche limit is defined for gravitationally bound bodies. It's not too much of a stretch to apply it to bulk properties like yield strength, but at the size you're talking about the forces are orders of magnitude off. I don't think the earth *has* a "roche limit" for solid rocky bodies.
Eh.. $99/year so I can keep track of where my iPod is and sync my computers and iStuff via the wireless network instead of the USB port? No thanks. It might be very well done, but the price is in no way related to the utility to me of what they provide for it.
Fortunately apple still provides rsync, so I don't really need to send my data to their server to get it from a computer in one room to a computer in another room. Syncing the iDevices over the internet is neat, I guess, and I'd be willing to pay up to $35 dollars for 4--5 years of "basically what dyndns does for free" + some automatic configuration.
I don't see why apple needs to have more data than the ip addresses of all the computers I register with them in order to provide internet syncing of devices, or why that should be worth $99 per year.
Although true, It is also clear that designing for the "100 year disaster" for your area is insufficient when such disasters can result in a 1,000 square kilometers of "can't go there" for multiple tens of years following. (or worse, > 100 year exclusions...).
The number should be chosen such that the steady state quantity of contaminated area will be expected to remain below some agreed-upon acceptable threshold. And obviously, the number should never be less than the expected exclusion term, as then there wouldn't be an asymptotically approached steady state of contaminated land, but an ever-increasing accumulation of it.
And why are they on timers at all. You need street lights when it's dark, whether the darkness is caused by a planet blocking the sun underneath, a planet blocking the sun overhead, or a particularly thick cloud.
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The problem is the trap you've fallen into. Once we don't need to pay for the wars, taxes should go down (or at least borrowing should go down. But inflation is a kind of tax...). Each item in the budget should stand on it's own, not as a way of padding the baseline budgeting.
I do believe that you are wrong. How much money or time have you donated to NASA? For most americans, the answer is, "none." Have you even bought any swag at the gift shop?
What kind of support do you give? Blog posts don't pay for an engineer's kids braces.
Eh.. that's basically the formula of "Lost." And looking at Abrams' wikipedia page I can see a number of shows that started off looking like they'd be good stories and then screwed up the ending because they clearly didn't know what they were going to do until five minutes before they started filming.
Heck, alias did this on a per-episode basis...
If you're a liberal, why have you been voting for Democrats? Liberals Love Liberty, don't they?
Interesting. Thanks for the tip. I'll remember to put my thumb over the "gimme" star next time I'm looking for stuff on amazon. (hmm. maybe I can come up with a CSS override...)
The fed only shows up if they find something incriminating. I don't really care what you do if you're an actual criminal and you're just trying to get away with stuff. Quick-draw a finger-gun at them if you want.
If they don't find anything incriminating, then your rights are violated without you ever knowing. How will you give them the finger *then*...
Presumably he goes on his way. Or does something stupid and gets arrested by UK police....
Well what is it doing? Calculating bitcoins? The C&C is encrypted, but the shady things it does cannot be. Just look for a lot of SMTP traffic in leet-case, or other signs of it trying to interact with the "outside" world.
Hint: UK is not in the US....
No, it takes away powers that the parents had, as the sole source of certain video games for minors. Now that minors can go behind their parents' backs and buy the games, parents' role in "taking responsibility for their kids" has become that much more difficult.
You really should have read the law, and the decision. including the dissent. Clarence Thomas, for instance, made some very salient points.
Pfft. My wall clock points to one at the solar zenith most of the year, because I like to be different.
All we'd lose is the plutonium and we really don't need more nuclear weapons
Perhaps, but we're already scraping the bottom of the barrel just to reclaim enough plutonium for RTG's for deep space probes. There are only so many isotopes that are good for that, most all of which have weapons applications, and solar power is really only viable out to roughly mars orbit, so there is an ongoing need for sources of plutonium.
Yeah, we should go back to basics. We don't need all the power-using machinery to provide our modern conveniences. Why look at the ancient Greeks! They lived a lot like we do today (*), without even inventing a practical steam engine, and not for lack of knowledge, either. They just didn't need to, what with all the slaves and all..
*as long as you weren't a slave. And owned land. And slaves....
Deaths aside, you can only accommodate so many 1,000 square kilometer exclusion zones. You need to make sure that the rate those areas are eventually reclaimed is equal to or better than the rate at which they are created.
What's the downside?
Those five job seekers would be able to find jobs if the government wasn't siphoning off all the wealth for useless make-work projects.
They get away with it because Inter-Library Loan mitigates the issue. It's similar to how your town's traffic laws continue to be unjust (and in some places unsafe) due to capricious enforcement. There is just enough of a way to get around the issue that the easiest path is just to suck it up and deal rather than address the underlying problem.
But the Tsunami was not an independent event. An undersea earthquake near that location of *any* size would've caused a tsunami of some size, and the site of the plant was close enough to the water that maybe half of any nearby earthquakes would've had associated tsunamis.
The problem was that a plant designed to withstand a 100 year earthquake was operated for half a hundred years and got hit by a 100 year earthquake - that happened to be an undersea earthquake. Designing for only a "once in 100 years disaster" was the real flaw.
Stop salivating about how nobly you'd spend someone else's money.
Roche limit is defined for gravitationally bound bodies. It's not too much of a stretch to apply it to bulk properties like yield strength, but at the size you're talking about the forces are orders of magnitude off. I don't think the earth *has* a "roche limit" for solid rocky bodies.
For a real working clock, I would power it with U235, kilogram produces about 1 MW of power, half life 770 million years....
Fission or decay?
Eh.. $99/year so I can keep track of where my iPod is and sync my computers and iStuff via the wireless network instead of the USB port? No thanks. It might be very well done, but the price is in no way related to the utility to me of what they provide for it.
Fortunately apple still provides rsync, so I don't really need to send my data to their server to get it from a computer in one room to a computer in another room. Syncing the iDevices over the internet is neat, I guess, and I'd be willing to pay up to $35 dollars for 4--5 years of "basically what dyndns does for free" + some automatic configuration.
I don't see why apple needs to have more data than the ip addresses of all the computers I register with them in order to provide internet syncing of devices, or why that should be worth $99 per year.
Although true, It is also clear that designing for the "100 year disaster" for your area is insufficient when such disasters can result in a 1,000 square kilometers of "can't go there" for multiple tens of years following. (or worse, > 100 year exclusions...).
The number should be chosen such that the steady state quantity of contaminated area will be expected to remain below some agreed-upon acceptable threshold. And obviously, the number should never be less than the expected exclusion term, as then there wouldn't be an asymptotically approached steady state of contaminated land, but an ever-increasing accumulation of it.
Then, you should be happy. By striking you down now, you'll become more powerful than they could possibly imagine!
And why are they on timers at all. You need street lights when it's dark, whether the darkness is caused by a planet blocking the sun underneath, a planet blocking the sun overhead, or a particularly thick cloud.