Opposite end of the state and only available for the wrong six months of the year. Storing water is not cheap or easy. Though to the extent storage is available, it's cheaper than desalination.
Natural gas is INXS in the oil producing parts of the middle east. It's free to the people that run desalination plants.
If they perfect natural gas liquefaction and transport, that might change. But the oil wells produce a shitload of natural gas.
Brine wouldn't be an issue, if they had deep oceans with strong currents, but the arabs don't, they should discharge brine into the Indian ocean.
Capturing a huge iceberg/year could put their desalination plants out of business. Get extra tugs for the last 50 miles, _all_ of them, get that sucker up to max speed and slam it into the sand, create a bay, like in the old Pornelle books.
Purpose built, ocean going tugs exist. You'd want more than one to tow a giant antarctic iceberg. I'd guess two on, one on maintenance/fueling. One fuel tanker. Cable rigging and likely end of cable floats. Cabling that much force to ice is a non-trivial engineering problem.
There's a difference between long term doomed (to only supply the chemical industry) and doomed in the life of the tanker fleet. If and when the price deltas get low enough, they will build fewer tankers.
And 'Beavis and Butthead', never forget his master work. 'King of the Hill', and 'Goode Family' were really B&B spinoffs. Characters that got their own show.
Ignore Diarrhea. That was MTV fucking things up.
There are episodes of Beavis and Butthead that are as much genius as any '3 Stooges' short or Marx brothers movie.
SSI is about massive pipelines. SSI based solutions have produced orders of magnitude performance increases for things like video encoding.
If you could pull this off, it's a reputation cementing job. You wouldn't be 'famous', but in some circles you could pick jobs after.
But like I say, I bet the duration is too short to do anything but tune the super tight code. The compiler won't be that bad, they've been working on Fortran compilers for a long fucking time.
IBM sold business everything, one stop shopping, or so they claimed.
Even in 1965 there were common things, canned. Accounts payable, receivable, payroll etc. Just because the hardware was expensive doesn't mean that you rebuild everything from scratch. The hardware part of development was also more expensive.
You'll note that: every time he is smarter, he is still a _huge_ dumbass.
e.g. 'Stick it in her taco', 'I'm trying dumbass, but first I've got to get her to take the spanish fly' also: 'Hey Butthead they spelled Womyn wrong' 'Cool, dumb chicks are easy' or the times that Beavis is clearly smarter, again from Womyn. 'These chicks are giving it away, why aren't there other dudes here' 'Fartknocker, you're in a room full of women that give it away for free and you're worried about where the dudes are, what's wrong with you?'
To say nothing of the times that Butthead doesn't know either, but bluffs: Blood donation: 'They stab you, and soak up the blood in with a rag, then squeeze it in container'.
Frost != snow and ice storms. Spend a winter in any midwestern city where they use salt on the roads. Seriously, it will suck, but it will break you of whining about California roads.
I live in Sac burbs, but grew up in the midwest. Even the mountain roads are pretty good in CA.
You're just spoiled, or live up a gravel road. You can lose a big American car in a Missouri pothole. If you're driving in BFE you should know how to steer around craters. You don't even need a 4x4 in Grizzly Flats, unless you need if for your driveway.
I'll grant the construction standards for the last 20 years or so are garbage, wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with all the new subdivisions roads as they did with the houses.
There are _no_ more dry season water rights nor new storage available. Any new diversions being discussed are being discussed by people who don't understand the situation. All the water rights in CA became immediately oversubscribed when the courts discovered that fish/fisheries/fishermen had natural water rights that date back to eternity...water right disputes get resolved on first in time basis.
There are large parts of California's education system that are failing. California natives often can't afford to stay. On the bright side, it's possible to be too poorly educated to live in California and still be well above average in Texas.
Almonds grow in central CA. Water almost never flows north. You have to argue that if they didn't grow almonds, then more Sacramento river water would reach the truly arid parts, which would reduce their use of Lake Mead. To make that argument you have to ignore water rights laws, as they exist on the ground. Arm wave up 'water rights reform', without considering the range wars that led to how they stand today.
If they didn't grow almonds, they would grow oranges/avocados etc. The farmers own the water, through their commonly owned irrigation districts, but only for ag use, so they can't sell it to cities. There it sits...
Compared to states with frost, our roads are like _glass_ (ask me about yellow Konis and polyurethane). Sure it's down to environment, but the fact remains, it's cheap to maintain roads where you don't get regular snow and ice storms.
Of course we waste money on frog tunnels and 'prettified' bridges. Look up how much the extra, pure esthetic, height on the new bay bridge cost.
The state exempts itself from rules, then learns the hard way why those rules where there. Oroville dam will be fixed, it will just cost a buttload (2.2 metric assloads) of money. SOP in all 50 states. Dams are expensive, everywhere, even Chinese dams cost a lot.
I live in a fairly conservative part of California. I'll say one thing for (god damn) hippies. They don't think it's 'fun' when your trailer park gets blown away by a tornado. Of course their are exceptions, assholes in every group.
Anything fun (that flies or goes boom) is already illegal in California. It's usually a tinderbox by the 4th of July.
Good damn hippies are even considering banning professional displays. Not that it matters, illegal it might be, but not enforced at all. But not like when I was a kid, when the whole city would be a fog of black powder smoke, that was cool.
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Iceberg condom, with reservoir tip.
Opposite end of the state and only available for the wrong six months of the year. Storing water is not cheap or easy. Though to the extent storage is available, it's cheaper than desalination.
Go to an iceberg and claim it for the world! Stay there to protect it.
Fucking hippie.
Natural gas is INXS in the oil producing parts of the middle east. It's free to the people that run desalination plants.
If they perfect natural gas liquefaction and transport, that might change. But the oil wells produce a shitload of natural gas.
Brine wouldn't be an issue, if they had deep oceans with strong currents, but the arabs don't, they should discharge brine into the Indian ocean.
Capturing a huge iceberg/year could put their desalination plants out of business. Get extra tugs for the last 50 miles, _all_ of them, get that sucker up to max speed and slam it into the sand, create a bay, like in the old Pornelle books.
Purpose built, ocean going tugs exist. You'd want more than one to tow a giant antarctic iceberg. I'd guess two on, one on maintenance/fueling. One fuel tanker. Cable rigging and likely end of cable floats. Cabling that much force to ice is a non-trivial engineering problem.
There's a difference between long term doomed (to only supply the chemical industry) and doomed in the life of the tanker fleet. If and when the price deltas get low enough, they will build fewer tankers.
Sorry you went to such a shitty school. Most colleges treat students like adults.
And 'Beavis and Butthead', never forget his master work. 'King of the Hill', and 'Goode Family' were really B&B spinoffs. Characters that got their own show.
Ignore Diarrhea. That was MTV fucking things up.
There are episodes of Beavis and Butthead that are as much genius as any '3 Stooges' short or Marx brothers movie.
SSI is about massive pipelines. SSI based solutions have produced orders of magnitude performance increases for things like video encoding.
If you could pull this off, it's a reputation cementing job. You wouldn't be 'famous', but in some circles you could pick jobs after.
But like I say, I bet the duration is too short to do anything but tune the super tight code. The compiler won't be that bad, they've been working on Fortran compilers for a long fucking time.
They check homework in college classes?
When I was in college, homework was not checked. If you didn't do it, you would fail the exams and everybody knew it.
Checking homework is high school, sophomore and younger.
IBM sold business everything, one stop shopping, or so they claimed.
Even in 1965 there were common things, canned. Accounts payable, receivable, payroll etc. Just because the hardware was expensive doesn't mean that you rebuild everything from scratch. The hardware part of development was also more expensive.
Perhaps if the numbers are 1E-16. If you're allowed errors are # * 1ee-20 it will never solve.
You'll note that: every time he is smarter, he is still a _huge_ dumbass.
e.g. 'Stick it in her taco', 'I'm trying dumbass, but first I've got to get her to take the spanish fly' also: 'Hey Butthead they spelled Womyn wrong' 'Cool, dumb chicks are easy' or the times that Beavis is clearly smarter, again from Womyn. 'These chicks are giving it away, why aren't there other dudes here' 'Fartknocker, you're in a room full of women that give it away for free and you're worried about where the dudes are, what's wrong with you?'
To say nothing of the times that Butthead doesn't know either, but bluffs: Blood donation: 'They stab you, and soak up the blood in with a rag, then squeeze it in container'.
Gwelow: barbarian, literally; foreign ghost, non-chinese.
I know, never explain the joke...
Frost != snow and ice storms. Spend a winter in any midwestern city where they use salt on the roads. Seriously, it will suck, but it will break you of whining about California roads.
I live in Sac burbs, but grew up in the midwest. Even the mountain roads are pretty good in CA.
You're just spoiled, or live up a gravel road. You can lose a big American car in a Missouri pothole. If you're driving in BFE you should know how to steer around craters. You don't even need a 4x4 in Grizzly Flats, unless you need if for your driveway.
I'll grant the construction standards for the last 20 years or so are garbage, wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with all the new subdivisions roads as they did with the houses.
The word you are looking for is commonly anglicised as 'gwelow'.
Better than 'gaijin' or 'gaiji'.
As you note. The brits are already language chauvinistic.
There are _no_ more dry season water rights nor new storage available. Any new diversions being discussed are being discussed by people who don't understand the situation. All the water rights in CA became immediately oversubscribed when the courts discovered that fish/fisheries/fishermen had natural water rights that date back to eternity...water right disputes get resolved on first in time basis.
There are large parts of California's education system that are failing. California natives often can't afford to stay. On the bright side, it's possible to be too poorly educated to live in California and still be well above average in Texas.
It's a 'ring' alright, in the English use of the word.
Almonds in deep S. Cal?
Almonds grow in central CA. Water almost never flows north. You have to argue that if they didn't grow almonds, then more Sacramento river water would reach the truly arid parts, which would reduce their use of Lake Mead. To make that argument you have to ignore water rights laws, as they exist on the ground. Arm wave up 'water rights reform', without considering the range wars that led to how they stand today.
If they didn't grow almonds, they would grow oranges/avocados etc. The farmers own the water, through their commonly owned irrigation districts, but only for ag use, so they can't sell it to cities. There it sits...
Have you ever actually driven CA roads?
Compared to states with frost, our roads are like _glass_ (ask me about yellow Konis and polyurethane). Sure it's down to environment, but the fact remains, it's cheap to maintain roads where you don't get regular snow and ice storms.
Of course we waste money on frog tunnels and 'prettified' bridges. Look up how much the extra, pure esthetic, height on the new bay bridge cost.
The state exempts itself from rules, then learns the hard way why those rules where there. Oroville dam will be fixed, it will just cost a buttload (2.2 metric assloads) of money. SOP in all 50 states. Dams are expensive, everywhere, even Chinese dams cost a lot.
I live in a fairly conservative part of California. I'll say one thing for (god damn) hippies. They don't think it's 'fun' when your trailer park gets blown away by a tornado. Of course their are exceptions, assholes in every group.
Anything fun (that flies or goes boom) is already illegal in California. It's usually a tinderbox by the 4th of July.
Good damn hippies are even considering banning professional displays. Not that it matters, illegal it might be, but not enforced at all. But not like when I was a kid, when the whole city would be a fog of black powder smoke, that was cool.