I like the way they used Airbus naming conventions. Is that so that every time a crash makes a headline Joe Sixpack will swear never to fly in a yoorapeean airplane.
If I'm reading it right the government did this because Joe Public was incapable of doing the math and seeing that CFLs while more expensive to buy in the store would save money long term.
Also they avoid building more power plants and help save the planet into the bargain.
A few guys lost their jobs but overall I fail to see how that's "screwing us". If you really want to see "screwed", try to run the country in a way where nobody ever loses a job.
(Oh, wait, there's the auto-industry and the banks - 'too big to fail!!')
Yep. The correct thing to do would be to pay for real, ongoing medical expenses for the duration.
Awarding some huge sum, then doubling it in the hope that it will be enough, is stupidity incarnate. It *won't* be enough because they'll just go out and start buying specially adapted Hummers and filling the house with hideously expensive pseudo-medical crap, then going out for luxury weekends at fancy health spas because they feel they 'deserve' it after all the hardship they've suffered.
Nope, they should have to live the same life as any other parent whose kid was born that way or suffered some kind of incapacitating accident (because that's what this was - AN ACCIDENT), except they're ahead because they don't have to pay the medical bills themselves.
Both types of reactor produce less radioactive waste then coal, the current main source of electricity production. You also know exactly where the radioactivity is instead of just letting the wind blow it around.
Maybe, but how much are the Poles going to charge you for it?
Article is about *PEAK* oil, not availability. There's going to be oil available for an awful long time but $10-$20 for a gallon of gasoline will completely wreck the economy/lifestyle of any country which depends on cheap oil.
A "year or two ago" you were very wrong, and are still very wrong.
Burning coal for electricity produces an order of magnitude more CO2 than oil does. Coal isn't going to run out anytime soon.
PS: No, that doesn't mean that it's perfectly OK to drive a gas guzzler. It's *attitude* towards energy that counts, and the "it's OK so long as you can afford it!" attitude is what's causing the USA to use an order of magnitude more energy per person than the rest of the developed world.
I don't believe *you* remember the 1970s... because if you did you wouldn't be saying that.
If I remember rightly, they used to say "the oil's going to run out" but they didn't put much of a date on it.
If you remember the 1970s you'd also be able to see the difference 40 years has make in how good we are at making predictions about stuff (remember 1970s weather forecasts...? LOL!)
It all started when I sold something on eBay. Turns out it was with a stolen credit card. So they reversed the payment leaving me with a -$600 balance. Which they said was my fault somehow.
That was their problem.
For what he's said it sounds like it.
OTOH he handled it wrong. When stuff like that happens you should give them a few days to sort it out then go straight to the consumer protection agency (or local equivalent) if it's not going your way. Banks will flat-out lie to you and even lose you as a customer over a couple of bucks, they do it every day. They soon change their mind when they get a whiff of real law/lawyers though.
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India also has a $6000 car but most westerners (and especially the USA) wouldn't want it.
No, he's keeping co-pilots. The 'plane is the pilot, the human is the co-pilot. There's still two pilots on the aircraft, see?
I like the way they used Airbus naming conventions. Is that so that every time a crash makes a headline Joe Sixpack will swear never to fly in a yoorapeean airplane.
It's not a vacuum these days, it's an inert gas that doesn't react with hot filaments (Nitrogen).
(And that's why light bulbs don't go 'pop' any more when you break them...)
If I'm reading it right the government did this because Joe Public was incapable of doing the math and seeing that CFLs while more expensive to buy in the store would save money long term.
Also they avoid building more power plants and help save the planet into the bargain.
A few guys lost their jobs but overall I fail to see how that's "screwing us". If you really want to see "screwed", try to run the country in a way where nobody ever loses a job.
(Oh, wait, there's the auto-industry and the banks - 'too big to fail!!')
You can patent "algorithms" if they're worthy of patent protection. A good example is mp3 encoding - invented and patented in Germany.
Allowing a patent for something like mp3 is fair enough IMHO, it seems to pass the basic tests for patentability.
PS: My SIL tells me that, yes, the German patent office cares about patent quality - they actively try to reject junk.
Simple: The one who's had the most practice poking around inside people, ie. the low-paid tech.
Yep. The correct thing to do would be to pay for real, ongoing medical expenses for the duration.
Awarding some huge sum, then doubling it in the hope that it will be enough, is stupidity incarnate. It *won't* be enough because they'll just go out and start buying specially adapted Hummers and filling the house with hideously expensive pseudo-medical crap, then going out for luxury weekends at fancy health spas because they feel they 'deserve' it after all the hardship they've suffered.
Nope, they should have to live the same life as any other parent whose kid was born that way or suffered some kind of incapacitating accident (because that's what this was - AN ACCIDENT), except they're ahead because they don't have to pay the medical bills themselves.
"So a mass flu vaccine better be really safe, or the flu strain better be really dangerous."
or
(3) The people in charge of the scare-mongering (ie. government-sponsored TV images of Asians in face masks) better have a lot of shares in Tamiflu.
Illness is horribly expensive due to all the anti-lawsuit insurance doctors have to pay.
(Plus they're a cartel that likes luxury offices/cars...)
I've got a sister in law who works at a patent office in Germany. She tells me they make obscene amounts of money.
If they're "under-resourced" it's because they can't build luxury office buildings fast enough to keep up with industry demand.
$20 million buys a lot of reality.
...in the hope that they, too, have this disorder.
Lawyers have to be paid...it's all part of "medical expenses".
Nope. It's because you need allergy medication every day of your life. Vaccines are (mostly) single-use.
Which part of the word "future" did you miss?
No... that's "uranium", and nobody in their right mind is suggesting building any more of those filthy, dangerous uranium reactors.
Do the world a favor and start your re-education today. The word you want is "thorium".
Why would you even want to?
Both types of reactor produce less radioactive waste then coal, the current main source of electricity production. You also know exactly where the radioactivity is instead of just letting the wind blow it around.
But yeah, Thorium FTW.
Ummm, you haven't finished paying for this recession yet...come back in 20 years and tell us how it went.
Maybe, but how much are the Poles going to charge you for it?
Article is about *PEAK* oil, not availability. There's going to be oil available for an awful long time but $10-$20 for a gallon of gasoline will completely wreck the economy/lifestyle of any country which depends on cheap oil.
Right, and coal won't running out until long after global warming has done its thing.
A "year or two ago" you were very wrong, and are still very wrong.
Burning coal for electricity produces an order of magnitude more CO2 than oil does. Coal isn't going to run out anytime soon.
PS: No, that doesn't mean that it's perfectly OK to drive a gas guzzler. It's *attitude* towards energy that counts, and the "it's OK so long as you can afford it!" attitude is what's causing the USA to use an order of magnitude more energy per person than the rest of the developed world.
I don't believe *you* remember the 1970s ... because if you did you wouldn't be saying that.
If I remember rightly, they used to say "the oil's going to run out" but they didn't put much of a date on it.
If you remember the 1970s you'd also be able to see the difference 40 years has make in how good we are at making predictions about stuff (remember 1970s weather forecasts...? LOL!)
It all started when I sold something on eBay. Turns out it was with a stolen credit card. So they reversed the payment leaving me with a -$600 balance. Which they said was my fault somehow.
That was their problem.
For what he's said it sounds like it.
OTOH he handled it wrong. When stuff like that happens you should give them a few days to sort it out then go straight to the consumer protection agency (or local equivalent) if it's not going your way. Banks will flat-out lie to you and even lose you as a customer over a couple of bucks, they do it every day. They soon change their mind when they get a whiff of real law/lawyers though.