Ha, even our grocery clerks make $15/hour and will retire millionaires while those outside the True West will never retire because they can't afford to.
And they'll live well in retirement, as our new 21st Century power is about 1/10th the cost of your energy. Adapt.
In northern areas, you pitch the solar panels at an angle, and many houses have them on the high slope south facing roofs. There are these things called brushes we use to clean off snow so it doesn't collapse our roofs. My dad lives in a house in Vermont that is solar powered for electricity and hot water, and he survives the winters quite nicely. Helps if you have R28 insulation and triple pane windows too.
I own Apple stock. And have owned MSFT and Sony stock. How is this frivolous?
Beachfront shore protection - that's frivolous. Waste of time, too. Spends 95 percent of the funds on the richest 1 percent on land areas that will be under water by 2025 regardless. Better spent on Africa.
Ebola is highly correlated with Africa as it's mostly a vector disease from bats and is spread by human contact with bats in the search for profitable guano (bat poop) and mining (caves) and resource extraction (caves).
Until white people got it in the US and EU, nobody with money cared.
Does that answer your question?
It's like malaria and other diseases. When they infect US populations and rich EU nations, suddenly they get cured, because we spend money on a cure, instead of on useless weapons systems.
Giving it too far ahead of time, makes it not work.
The actual vaccines have a fairly high fatality rate, but it is far lower than the fatality rate for Ebola.
So it's a choice between a 0-20 percent chance of mortality versus a 90-100 percent chance of mortality.
It's a solution. It's not an optimal solution. The main problem is there isn't funding for an optimal solution, and it's really hard to get controls in Ebola.
Why isn't there funding? Probably spent on some beachfront property beach cleanup in the Hamptons as "shore protection".
Pretty sure there will be a competing browser running on another device other than an xBox which utilizes screens. Pretty sure most of our blade servers make your desktop machines look like ancient Ford jalopies.
The vast majority of work done in the world is done by machines which don't talk to humans most of the time. Including the vast majority of work done on the web itself. Which is just a framing representation of various inputs and outputs we built to allow disparate machines to intercommunicate and occasionally present the data to humans.
This is why you don't let the marketroids and UI gurus design tech things. They go for feel, not substance. Substance matters.
You can enhance substance with proper UI design, so that things "fade in" as they become secure, or count down dots indicate what's enabled, but you need to actually build it right in the first place.
(caveat: my first degree was in BusMgmt Sales & Marketing focus)
Technically, we can regrow fingerprints, but it's very expensive, and we have to alter the pattern.
Biometrics are frequently a lazy method that creates just as many problems as they solve. Most security breaches involve people spacing out. And if you make things too difficult, they subvert them, making them even more useless.
As a former regional acting Security Officer, this whole thing brings three conclusions, which we all knew in the 80s when we set up security priniciples:
1. Full data should never be fully available on any external or easily linked database. It is far better to have a query/response system that does not have full details.
2. You don't need the full security clearance information unless you're looking for potential spies. Only the CIA internal agency and FBI internal agency data should have been internally available. Ever.
3. Linking position to clearance data (other than NEEDED level of clearance) is never a good idea. We used to keep that on locked laptops (yes, a decade before you civvies got them) in removable locked hard drives for that exact reason. In a safe that was fire proof. And EMP safe.
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I didn't say he was rich. He built his own house. He lives in a state where the median income is $15k.
He installed the insulation and solar panels himself.
It's not that hard.
Um, we don't have a state income tax in WA. Doubt it.
We already subsidize your fossil fuel tax exemptions and other tax giveaways to your Chinese overlords.
He's 80. This is why you have a roof walk and hatch.
I used to live in BC up in the Rockies, surprised you don't know about clearing your own roof.
Ha, even our grocery clerks make $15/hour and will retire millionaires while those outside the True West will never retire because they can't afford to.
And they'll live well in retirement, as our new 21st Century power is about 1/10th the cost of your energy. Adapt.
Wrong. Wind and solar are both cheaper. Pay attention. It's 2015, not 1975.
depends, is it jet fuel like that used by Alaskan Airlines based on biofeuls, or traditional jet fuel?
In northern areas, you pitch the solar panels at an angle, and many houses have them on the high slope south facing roofs. There are these things called brushes we use to clean off snow so it doesn't collapse our roofs. My dad lives in a house in Vermont that is solar powered for electricity and hot water, and he survives the winters quite nicely. Helps if you have R28 insulation and triple pane windows too.
Let me be clear, the True West alone will produce that much clean energy in WA OR ID NV CA UT.
We're not the problem. We grow our economies and our population while emitting fewer GHG emissions.
It's the rest of America that's the problem.
And 2027 is far too late for you to get your act together.
Climate Change is Now.
Something I said back in 2008. Which is when we needed to end grandfather exemptions for old inefficient fossil fuel plants.
We took action in the True West.
You didn't. Even the other states who did only stopped emissions growth, while we reduced ours and grew our economy ten times faster than you did.
Actions. Now.
Not words.
Not then. Now.
The main discussion should be the use of weapons to defend one's home.
In Soviet Amerika only Corporations have Rights, as only Corporations are People, and only Corporations are Party Members.
Thus, the drone should not have been shot down, and should have been welcomed as the red coats occupy our houses.
Telemetry can be faked.
Downed drones on one's property can't be.
Pull!
True, but it's not just MSFT but also Apple who reset your privacy features to "send us all your data so we can sell it".
Always check all of your app and OS settings after any upgrade.
I stand by my assessment.
I own Apple stock. And have owned MSFT and Sony stock. How is this frivolous?
Beachfront shore protection - that's frivolous. Waste of time, too. Spends 95 percent of the funds on the richest 1 percent on land areas that will be under water by 2025 regardless. Better spent on Africa.
Seriously?
Flip phones reduce the joy of having my family and friends butt dial me from their cars, from a party, and oh so many other events.
Save the butt dial!
Ebola is highly correlated with Africa as it's mostly a vector disease from bats and is spread by human contact with bats in the search for profitable guano (bat poop) and mining (caves) and resource extraction (caves).
Until white people got it in the US and EU, nobody with money cared.
Does that answer your question?
It's like malaria and other diseases. When they infect US populations and rich EU nations, suddenly they get cured, because we spend money on a cure, instead of on useless weapons systems.
Giving it too far ahead of time, makes it not work.
The actual vaccines have a fairly high fatality rate, but it is far lower than the fatality rate for Ebola.
So it's a choice between a 0-20 percent chance of mortality versus a 90-100 percent chance of mortality.
It's a solution. It's not an optimal solution. The main problem is there isn't funding for an optimal solution, and it's really hard to get controls in Ebola.
Why isn't there funding? Probably spent on some beachfront property beach cleanup in the Hamptons as "shore protection".
The same goes for your drone.
Pull!
Pretty sure there will be a competing browser running on another device other than an xBox which utilizes screens. Pretty sure most of our blade servers make your desktop machines look like ancient Ford jalopies.
The vast majority of work done in the world is done by machines which don't talk to humans most of the time. Including the vast majority of work done on the web itself. Which is just a framing representation of various inputs and outputs we built to allow disparate machines to intercommunicate and occasionally present the data to humans.
Thank you for that insightful and informative comment which has added so much to the discussion.
Oh, wait, no it didn't, you just wanted to remind everyone that you don't own a television.
Pretty sure my 1080p 42 inch HDTV counts as a TV.
Although it is true many scientists don't own TVs, to minimize distractions.
This is why you don't let the marketroids and UI gurus design tech things. They go for feel, not substance. Substance matters.
You can enhance substance with proper UI design, so that things "fade in" as they become secure, or count down dots indicate what's enabled, but you need to actually build it right in the first place.
(caveat: my first degree was in BusMgmt Sales & Marketing focus)
So it's dead to me.
Technically, we can regrow fingerprints, but it's very expensive, and we have to alter the pattern.
Biometrics are frequently a lazy method that creates just as many problems as they solve. Most security breaches involve people spacing out. And if you make things too difficult, they subvert them, making them even more useless.
Fingerprints should never be available, and only as a query/response data store with id links that have no further info on the subject they belong to.
Just because you "want" to see it doesn't mean you "should" see it.
As a former regional acting Security Officer, this whole thing brings three conclusions, which we all knew in the 80s when we set up security priniciples:
1. Full data should never be fully available on any external or easily linked database. It is far better to have a query/response system that does not have full details.
2. You don't need the full security clearance information unless you're looking for potential spies. Only the CIA internal agency and FBI internal agency data should have been internally available. Ever.
3. Linking position to clearance data (other than NEEDED level of clearance) is never a good idea. We used to keep that on locked laptops (yes, a decade before you civvies got them) in removable locked hard drives for that exact reason. In a safe that was fire proof. And EMP safe.
All hail our nation's glorious 50 cent posters from Korea West!
Shouting is the polite way to show how empty one's brain is.