But why is that? Why does the "artist" community get paid differently than anyone else?
Sure, you say, it is in the contract. But no other industry would even consider putting something like that in a contract, so why does this "artist" industry? I am a civil engineer. I get paid to design the building. Once the design is done, my pay is done. I would love to get paid everytime someone looks at the building, or takes a picture of it, or goes inside. So, get a contract that states that? Find me an engineering firm on this planet that pays its employees that way.
So, why do writers, artists, actors, etc get paid that way?
I have often wondered why the "artistic" community insists on getting paid differently from everyone else. Most industries, you get paid for the work you do. For some reason, "artists" insist on getting paid forever for the work they did. I am a civil engineer, I get paid to design the building. When the design is done, my pay is done. I wish I could get paid everytime someone looks at the building, takes a picture of it, or even goes inside.
Why is a book, song, painting, illustration, screenplay, article, etc any different?
"And police officers are paid by my taxes. They dont need more revenue from stupid speeding tickets or red-light cameras."
Then you are very uninformed. A simple google search will show you that revenue from tickets (and drug seizures) form a large part of the operating revenue for local police departments.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710970/
is an article about Citys removing red light cameras because they worked too well and the revenue dropped.
I would place the blame entirely on the City's police force. I know for sure if the local police in my home town found out about people doing 50 in a 25 (School Zone speed limit) they would have half the force there ticketing people left and right. That is a huge cash cow your local police force is passing up.
And Bush, a "small government" conservative expanded the size and scope of the federal government more than any recent President.
I was frequently called un-American for not supporting our "war time" President. Will those same people call themselves un-American for not supporting our "war time" President following the inauguration?
Awesome! Looking forward to that system getting implemented. Next damn pedestrian even thinks about jaywalking is going to have permanent Mercedes star body art! Free reign to be an asshole and downright dangerous, because no liability provided they broke the law first.
They are voluntary in as far as you can choose to buy a home within a HOA, or one without. I shopped around to find a house outside of a HOA. I would rather risk my neighbor painting his house pink than live under some of the rules I saw in HOA's in this area.
For example:
-No parking in street, or parking in your driveway overnight.
-No washing your car in your driveway.
-No fixing your car in public view, must be inside garage with closed door.
-A friend in an HOA last week received a letter. "You have 6 months to repaint your house, in one of these 4 approved colors." If he doesn't, they can force him to sell his home.
Just curious as to how you access the internet since I have never seen a company offer internet access without a monthly fee. Pay as you go? Somehow pay up front?
Where does that money come from? Out of thin air? No, it comes from the pockets of all the other Americans who buy the fuel made from the oil from Alaska. So, yes, it is a distribution of wealth from the rest of America to Alaskans.
If you haven't noticed, the price for electricity hasn't gone down in line with gasoline. In fact, my electricity has gone up! So, for solar in particular, the payback time did not double when gas went down. For most people, the payback time likely shortened as the price of electricity is going up all over the country.
Subsidies have no impact on the energy payback of the solar system, just the monetary payback.
Either way, a solar PV system produces as much energy as it took to produce the system in 1-4 years. Nowhere near the 20-25 years you claim.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
I am not sure about "Satellite-grade" solar panels, but for your normal rooftop cystalline-silicon PV solar panels, the energy payback is 1-4 years. On a product that is warrantied for 25 years and expected to last well beyond 50 years.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf
Then your Solar Energy Analyst was wrong.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
Shows that the energy payback for most PV systems is about 4 years, and it only takes about 600 kwh/square meter to manufacture the panels.
22MWh per panel? Ridiculous.
Your parents would be arrested for child neglect or child abandonment if they tried that trick now.
As a middle age person, thinking back on my childhood, the way my parents raised me, they would surely be arrested and us kids taken away if they did the same today. I rode my bike 2 miles to school starting at age 6. Today, my neighbors drive their kids the 1/4 mile to school, both ways. During the summer, my curfew was when the street lights came on. Now parents barely let their kids leave the yard unsupervised.
My point is, us middle aged people, we grew up into perfectly rational, responsible human beings, despite being raised "by terrible parents" (based on today's standards). Why is it that now, a kid will grow up into being a bum or a criminal if they aren't supervised 24/7?
Did you parents raise you with the same restrictions, constant monitoring and lack of privacy?
If so, I can see why you do it. If not, why are you denying your children the same oportunities to experience life that you had? You turned out to be a responsible, intelligent human being, why do you expect that your children would turn out different given the same circumstances?
When I worked for the FAA, I did some work at certain airport (name omitted just in case), that had parking for your plane right outside the bar, and a special gate going from the bar to the plane parking area. This was a large commercial airport. Controllers would tell me stories of drunk private pilots taking off from the taxiways.
This was 25+ years ago though. I am sure things are much more stringent now.
The efficiency of present PV panels drops significantly as temperature rises. Unless you can deal with those higher temperatures, concentrating the light won't give you much gain.
For example, I notice up to a 10% drop in total production on days that are 100+ degrees F vs days that are 80 or so degrees F given the same length of day.
You might want to crunch your numbers again.
I am not going to bore you with all the exact numbers, but I installed my 3.2 kw system in 2004, and my calculated payback based on the numbers obtained with 4 years of actual use will be a little over 8 years. It was a subsidized installation though, with rebates paying more than half the cost. But the costs of the equipment are lower now, and there are higher rebates available than what was available 4 years ago. Granted we aren't reaching your unsubsidized 10 year payback quite yet, but we have well passed your subsidized 20 year payback estimate.
Every time there is a discussion about solar, someone comes on and begins to spout the usual nonsense that the panels never produce as much power as they use during production, a claim that has been disproven repeatedly. Given that this time it was an AC shows that the message might be getting through.
Avg payback in energy for crystalline-silicon PV systems is 1-4 years. On a product that is warrantied for 25 years and expected to last well beyond 50 years.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf
Don't forget that to pay for this war, the Fed has been printing dollars as fast as the presses will go, further eroding the value of the dollar, raising the prices for Americans who have to pay in dollars.
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But why is that? Why does the "artist" community get paid differently than anyone else? Sure, you say, it is in the contract. But no other industry would even consider putting something like that in a contract, so why does this "artist" industry? I am a civil engineer. I get paid to design the building. Once the design is done, my pay is done. I would love to get paid everytime someone looks at the building, or takes a picture of it, or goes inside. So, get a contract that states that? Find me an engineering firm on this planet that pays its employees that way. So, why do writers, artists, actors, etc get paid that way?
I have often wondered why the "artistic" community insists on getting paid differently from everyone else. Most industries, you get paid for the work you do. For some reason, "artists" insist on getting paid forever for the work they did. I am a civil engineer, I get paid to design the building. When the design is done, my pay is done. I wish I could get paid everytime someone looks at the building, takes a picture of it, or even goes inside. Why is a book, song, painting, illustration, screenplay, article, etc any different?
"And police officers are paid by my taxes. They dont need more revenue from stupid speeding tickets or red-light cameras." Then you are very uninformed. A simple google search will show you that revenue from tickets (and drug seizures) form a large part of the operating revenue for local police departments. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710970/ is an article about Citys removing red light cameras because they worked too well and the revenue dropped.
I would place the blame entirely on the City's police force. I know for sure if the local police in my home town found out about people doing 50 in a 25 (School Zone speed limit) they would have half the force there ticketing people left and right. That is a huge cash cow your local police force is passing up.
And Bush, a "small government" conservative expanded the size and scope of the federal government more than any recent President. I was frequently called un-American for not supporting our "war time" President. Will those same people call themselves un-American for not supporting our "war time" President following the inauguration?
Awesome! Looking forward to that system getting implemented. Next damn pedestrian even thinks about jaywalking is going to have permanent Mercedes star body art! Free reign to be an asshole and downright dangerous, because no liability provided they broke the law first.
Most people I know who hate Bush have done so since day one of his presidency, I know I have.
They are voluntary in as far as you can choose to buy a home within a HOA, or one without. I shopped around to find a house outside of a HOA. I would rather risk my neighbor painting his house pink than live under some of the rules I saw in HOA's in this area. For example: -No parking in street, or parking in your driveway overnight. -No washing your car in your driveway. -No fixing your car in public view, must be inside garage with closed door. -A friend in an HOA last week received a letter. "You have 6 months to repaint your house, in one of these 4 approved colors." If he doesn't, they can force him to sell his home.
Just curious as to how you access the internet since I have never seen a company offer internet access without a monthly fee. Pay as you go? Somehow pay up front?
Where does that money come from? Out of thin air? No, it comes from the pockets of all the other Americans who buy the fuel made from the oil from Alaska. So, yes, it is a distribution of wealth from the rest of America to Alaskans.
If you haven't noticed, the price for electricity hasn't gone down in line with gasoline. In fact, my electricity has gone up! So, for solar in particular, the payback time did not double when gas went down. For most people, the payback time likely shortened as the price of electricity is going up all over the country.
Believe it or not, people who live in warm, sunny places like to take hot showers too.
Subsidies have no impact on the energy payback of the solar system, just the monetary payback. Either way, a solar PV system produces as much energy as it took to produce the system in 1-4 years. Nowhere near the 20-25 years you claim. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
Try any version of Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox or 360, and then come back and honestly say that "All you get is casual or hard-core-lite type games."
I am not sure about "Satellite-grade" solar panels, but for your normal rooftop cystalline-silicon PV solar panels, the energy payback is 1-4 years. On a product that is warrantied for 25 years and expected to last well beyond 50 years. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf
Then your Solar Energy Analyst was wrong. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf Shows that the energy payback for most PV systems is about 4 years, and it only takes about 600 kwh/square meter to manufacture the panels. 22MWh per panel? Ridiculous.
Your parents would be arrested for child neglect or child abandonment if they tried that trick now.
As a middle age person, thinking back on my childhood, the way my parents raised me, they would surely be arrested and us kids taken away if they did the same today. I rode my bike 2 miles to school starting at age 6. Today, my neighbors drive their kids the 1/4 mile to school, both ways. During the summer, my curfew was when the street lights came on. Now parents barely let their kids leave the yard unsupervised.
My point is, us middle aged people, we grew up into perfectly rational, responsible human beings, despite being raised "by terrible parents" (based on today's standards). Why is it that now, a kid will grow up into being a bum or a criminal if they aren't supervised 24/7?
One question...
Did you parents raise you with the same restrictions, constant monitoring and lack of privacy?
If so, I can see why you do it. If not, why are you denying your children the same oportunities to experience life that you had? You turned out to be a responsible, intelligent human being, why do you expect that your children would turn out different given the same circumstances?
When I worked for the FAA, I did some work at certain airport (name omitted just in case), that had parking for your plane right outside the bar, and a special gate going from the bar to the plane parking area. This was a large commercial airport. Controllers would tell me stories of drunk private pilots taking off from the taxiways.
This was 25+ years ago though. I am sure things are much more stringent now.
Yeah, I hear customers are abandoning Nintendo in droves because they jumped the shark by not producing enough Wiis...oh wait..
The efficiency of present PV panels drops significantly as temperature rises. Unless you can deal with those higher temperatures, concentrating the light won't give you much gain. For example, I notice up to a 10% drop in total production on days that are 100+ degrees F vs days that are 80 or so degrees F given the same length of day.
You might want to crunch your numbers again. I am not going to bore you with all the exact numbers, but I installed my 3.2 kw system in 2004, and my calculated payback based on the numbers obtained with 4 years of actual use will be a little over 8 years. It was a subsidized installation though, with rebates paying more than half the cost. But the costs of the equipment are lower now, and there are higher rebates available than what was available 4 years ago. Granted we aren't reaching your unsubsidized 10 year payback quite yet, but we have well passed your subsidized 20 year payback estimate.
BP sells 200 watt panels that are 14.85 sq ft each. 1000/15 = 66.67 x 200watt = 13.3kw
Of course, that is under ideal generating circumstances.
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9019633&contentId=7036926
Every time there is a discussion about solar, someone comes on and begins to spout the usual nonsense that the panels never produce as much power as they use during production, a claim that has been disproven repeatedly. Given that this time it was an AC shows that the message might be getting through. Avg payback in energy for crystalline-silicon PV systems is 1-4 years. On a product that is warrantied for 25 years and expected to last well beyond 50 years. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf
Don't forget that to pay for this war, the Fed has been printing dollars as fast as the presses will go, further eroding the value of the dollar, raising the prices for Americans who have to pay in dollars.