Well freedom from the mindless regulations in cities like New York, the freedom to actually own a piece of land and be able to call it your own, the freedom to actual not having to deal with a nanny-state. Is that freedom to you?
While times change, last I check houses tend to stay around a LONG time, tearing down a house in so few and far between. Also again there are many people who are perfectly happy living the way they are--and who are we to say that they should not live that way and tax them into submission (getting back the the freedom thing)
The problem has more to do with volume of area. We face a situation where a large population is spread out and has no common destination. This basically means that there are no real 'common routes' that bus line could travel. Downtowns are dead as business hubs in many areas, and real estate prices are pushing people out even more. For a time period, I had to use public transport to get to where i needed to go, and it took several hours to go where I could get in my car in a fraction of the time.
The problem is this: its not like we are going to bulldose our spralling cities and start anew. We have to realise that we have to live in the what we created, changing the composition of our existing development is not really an option.
One of the biggest problems people have with cities is that they often involve giving up personal freedom (bloomberg). Many, like myself, still have alittle of that western libertarianism in them -which i guess to many on the other side of this debate is a bad thing.
Also, with regard to fuel efficient cars, it seems counter productive as those who are hurt the most by high gas prices (the poor,who cannot afford the costs of living in a city) are the one's who drive a 10 year old used car.
The goal of higher oil taxes being to force people to drive less (or fuel efficent cars, but really mostly to drive less period). However for most Americans, what is the alternative to driving? Here is nothing. Distences are too far for foot/bike, and places to go are so spread out that public transport is near useless. All that, and I'm in no position to move.
Higher gas taxes only drive up the cost of living on those who are least able to alter their lifestyle to adjust to urban environment that high gas taxes require.
Yes, However the Shuttle's 470ish ISP SSMEs do most of the work in getting it to orbit. If he could get the rating around 250 I would say he has a chance at maybe a first stage.
I picked up a decent Compaq Desktop for $5 today at a garage sale, the woman said it 'was running slow' It came with the system restore disk, never opened.
Why do I have a feeling no one here was a capture card that could capture a monitors signal at a high resolution (and if you do I bet it costs thousands...)
If they wanted to have cabs be better for the environment, they could start with having the drivers ware deodorant.
Of course now I am excited about the smaller hybrids, that means the urine has smaller area to collect.
Of course hydrogen is currently being derived from fossil fuels...it's the easiest and most efficiently way right now.
HOWEVER, producing hydrogen without fossil fuels is amazing easy. In fact most people who took chemistry in 10th grade would know it. Electrolysis of water. Of course that moves hydrogen to an energy storage method, but combined with nuclear power it will produce a zero emission energy system that will power our homes and cars.
I have heard from someone who works on the Shuttle that Nasa Management in meetings does not view the storm as a real threat. However, that are making plans just in case, and to satisfy the media. No one expects a rollback as justified given the current track.
Overall, not a bad idea--it will be a Saturn V class booster. I am not crazy about using 6 SSMEs however, they are designed to be reusable, not flown on an expendable booster and are expensive as hell (about $300 million for the 6 first stage engines alone)
Also, I seems to only speak of using 2 SRBs in the in-line HLLV, it would seem to me to make more sense to use 4 or 6 clustered around the core. After all, the shuttle SRBs are some of the cheapest power you can get.
In a related story in stead of paying $24 why not spring $90 and get window unit from Walmart? I bet you could find a used A/C unit at goodwill for around $25-$40
$15,000 for that many desktops seems....well...very reasonable. I can understand you wanting to move to a FOSS, but in the end most of your students and faculty are use to Microsoft crap (I mean software...) and the price seems fair as compared to headaches of users when they don't get it.
Um...First the auther indicates that most the people he is dealing with already have an internet connection and a home PC. Not exactly poor in my book. Second, if it is China--guess what: Where do you think all the sat phone/wifi stuff is made??? I'm willing to get that planty of it 'falls off the truck'.
1) Satellite Phones: Use an Iridium phone while driving around to avoid location. They are very slow, but should work find for text based sites--assuming you download them for latter reading.
2) USB WiFi adapters. In the Internet Cafe, quietly slip a Usb Wifi adapter onto the pc and activiate internet sharing. That way you can park along side the cafe and surf, without anyone know who you really are.
3) Hidding information in Jpegs. Have an outsider hide the information in harmless seeming websites.
Does the county restrict satellite dishs? If not there might be some options with Ku band internet access 1/2 way or satellite data services.
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Well freedom from the mindless regulations in cities like New York, the freedom to actually own a piece of land and be able to call it your own, the freedom to actual not having to deal with a nanny-state. Is that freedom to you? While times change, last I check houses tend to stay around a LONG time, tearing down a house in so few and far between. Also again there are many people who are perfectly happy living the way they are--and who are we to say that they should not live that way and tax them into submission (getting back the the freedom thing)
The problem has more to do with volume of area. We face a situation where a large population is spread out and has no common destination. This basically means that there are no real 'common routes' that bus line could travel. Downtowns are dead as business hubs in many areas, and real estate prices are pushing people out even more. For a time period, I had to use public transport to get to where i needed to go, and it took several hours to go where I could get in my car in a fraction of the time.
The problem is this: its not like we are going to bulldose our spralling cities and start anew. We have to realise that we have to live in the what we created, changing the composition of our existing development is not really an option. One of the biggest problems people have with cities is that they often involve giving up personal freedom (bloomberg). Many, like myself, still have alittle of that western libertarianism in them -which i guess to many on the other side of this debate is a bad thing. Also, with regard to fuel efficient cars, it seems counter productive as those who are hurt the most by high gas prices (the poor,who cannot afford the costs of living in a city) are the one's who drive a 10 year old used car.
The goal of higher oil taxes being to force people to drive less (or fuel efficent cars, but really mostly to drive less period). However for most Americans, what is the alternative to driving? Here is nothing. Distences are too far for foot/bike, and places to go are so spread out that public transport is near useless. All that, and I'm in no position to move. Higher gas taxes only drive up the cost of living on those who are least able to alter their lifestyle to adjust to urban environment that high gas taxes require.
I'm will to bet you won't hear that many people in Siberia complaining.
Because I should would rather have a wireless connection in my home subject to interference as opposed to a FIOS line....
Yes, However the Shuttle's 470ish ISP SSMEs do most of the work in getting it to orbit. If he could get the rating around 250 I would say he has a chance at maybe a first stage.
He reports only an ISP only in the low 200s, this is not efficent enought to get to orbit.
The product you want is called the firestore http://www.videoguys.com/FireStore.html Its a portable Hard drive product that is made just for your needs.
The rocket does not run on hydrogen, but on 100% clean burning political dissidents.
I picked up a decent Compaq Desktop for $5 today at a garage sale, the woman said it 'was running slow' It came with the system restore disk, never opened.
Why do I have a feeling no one here was a capture card that could capture a monitors signal at a high resolution (and if you do I bet it costs thousands...)
I think most New Yorks would responde to that not with that 'mangled language' but by mangling you.
If they wanted to have cabs be better for the environment, they could start with having the drivers ware deodorant. Of course now I am excited about the smaller hybrids, that means the urine has smaller area to collect.
Of course hydrogen is currently being derived from fossil fuels...it's the easiest and most efficiently way right now. HOWEVER, producing hydrogen without fossil fuels is amazing easy. In fact most people who took chemistry in 10th grade would know it. Electrolysis of water. Of course that moves hydrogen to an energy storage method, but combined with nuclear power it will produce a zero emission energy system that will power our homes and cars.
I have heard from someone who works on the Shuttle that Nasa Management in meetings does not view the storm as a real threat. However, that are making plans just in case, and to satisfy the media. No one expects a rollback as justified given the current track.
Overall, not a bad idea--it will be a Saturn V class booster. I am not crazy about using 6 SSMEs however, they are designed to be reusable, not flown on an expendable booster and are expensive as hell (about $300 million for the 6 first stage engines alone) Also, I seems to only speak of using 2 SRBs in the in-line HLLV, it would seem to me to make more sense to use 4 or 6 clustered around the core. After all, the shuttle SRBs are some of the cheapest power you can get.
In a era where we are in grave need of new energy sources, we decide to build it in a country with a 35-hour workweek. God help us.
In a related story in stead of paying $24 why not spring $90 and get window unit from Walmart? I bet you could find a used A/C unit at goodwill for around $25-$40
Was I the only on who read this and thought at first that they were talking about including the local time?
Now that there is a Open Soruce CAD package that supports calculation of displacement and buoyancy for old tires, its clear why the change was made.
$15,000 for that many desktops seems....well...very reasonable. I can understand you wanting to move to a FOSS, but in the end most of your students and faculty are use to Microsoft crap (I mean software...) and the price seems fair as compared to headaches of users when they don't get it.
Um...First the auther indicates that most the people he is dealing with already have an internet connection and a home PC. Not exactly poor in my book. Second, if it is China--guess what: Where do you think all the sat phone/wifi stuff is made??? I'm willing to get that planty of it 'falls off the truck'.
1) Satellite Phones: Use an Iridium phone while driving around to avoid location. They are very slow, but should work find for text based sites--assuming you download them for latter reading. 2) USB WiFi adapters. In the Internet Cafe, quietly slip a Usb Wifi adapter onto the pc and activiate internet sharing. That way you can park along side the cafe and surf, without anyone know who you really are. 3) Hidding information in Jpegs. Have an outsider hide the information in harmless seeming websites. Does the county restrict satellite dishs? If not there might be some options with Ku band internet access 1/2 way or satellite data services.
Ah...Titan was NOT reliable. It had a success rate of only 86% (http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/titan4b.htm) Atlas has a near perfect record for the last few decades.