Look, what they are not admitting to you, but is known by any decent security operative, is that the vast and overwhelming majority of threats are in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan.
Most actionable intel has been from those places. As in 95 percent.
None of this should allow them to spy on us and quarter troops in our cell phones and computers in our homes and on our persons. Without a specific and limited warrant.
The tech to read your keyboard and wireless has existed for many many decades. You're only now finding out about it and the backdoor hacks we built into things.
That said, the main barriers are the cost to make PVs, and the storage of the energy itself.
Sunny climates could use the PV windows to generate electricity for cooling buildings, which is up to 40 percent of energy usage in a lot of the world, and even for vehicles to extend their running range, depending on the characteristics of the PV material.
When both Canada (CSE) and the US (NSA) spy on everyone around the world, including their own citizens in their own countries, against their own Constitutions, how can this mean anything?
Or did you not notice the cables being cut and spliced when we did it?
Note that the main problem with all electric vehicles is the power mix and cost depends on how electricity is generated.
Electricity in much of the West is from a mix of solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and hydroelectric power, which result in an e-gallon costing about 1/10th what a gallon of gas costs.
In areas with coal-fired electric we're starting to see (Economics studies) indications of coal and oil increasing in cost, making the comparative costs different and the climate change and pollution impacts also different. However, if you have home and work solar or wind power, you can always trickle charge the battery systems to ensure a near 100 percent green fuel, and since solar costs are dropping fast (cheaper than oil now, competitive with coal) this may change quickly.
Some relatives and friends of mine use all electric or mostly electric cars to - basically - pay nothing in gas (other than an annual gas engine assist "burn" for the mostly electric ones) and as a result "fill up their tanks" with cheap electrons. Even if they add costs for solar charging or buy "green" power mix from the utility (solar/wind/hydro mix) it still works out to around 1/8th the cost of gasoline.
Not that fusion is as far off as people think it is. There are some really promising experiments other than the big ones, that seem single digit years away from usable designs.
I've been hearing that since the 1963 World's Fair.
Here, we have no income state (Washington State), only sales tax.
And, most of our energy is a mix of hydroelectric, solar, and wind (yes, solar is very effective here).
While I think moving to all electric vehicles in green states like ours is a good thing, and cheaper than gas (about 1/10th the cost), not sure if they should get a sales tax exemption since the only people buying Tesla cars (which have a showroom 20 blocks south of me) are rich people who generally avoid paying even 1/3 as much percentage of tax as the other 99 percent of citizens that pay the bills.
Same goes for fleet purchases - note that education and state/municipal don't pay sales taxes (and never have).
What is your current feeling on the current trends in fiction - in book form, manga, anime, TV, and film - have we gone away from hard SF towards science fiction focused on relationships and societies, or is this just a surface trend as we deal with the actual implications of reality and the near future?
And, in terms of that, do you think 2020 will be the way many writers thought it would be, or is it vastly different?
The main problem is, when we factor in water, fertilizer, production, processing, and shipping, that corn ethanol barely reaches replacement level for energy.
Other cellulosic ethanols have higher energy yields (stored energy per unit) and lower energy inputs, for example: algae, switchgrass, and cane sugar ethanol.
Subsidizing corn ethanol production is like shooting yourself in the foot and then declaring that it's ok to shoot you since you're disabled.
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Look, what they are not admitting to you, but is known by any decent security operative, is that the vast and overwhelming majority of threats are in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan.
Most actionable intel has been from those places. As in 95 percent.
None of this should allow them to spy on us and quarter troops in our cell phones and computers in our homes and on our persons. Without a specific and limited warrant.
The tech to read your keyboard and wireless has existed for many many decades. You're only now finding out about it and the backdoor hacks we built into things.
I think you are being over-optimistic.
Good point. But my observation is just a law. Until it's been peer reviewed and a consensus has built up, it will never become a theory.
Having an AC call anything something just shows the acronym is the title
I think that I shall never see, a tree as lovely as a bill, bored.
Theories are tested laws which have been peer reviewed.
Somebody didn't take any hard science classes ...
news flash - nobody believes in "discoursing the subject" except for non-native English speakers.
"We are not Men - We are Devo" (Song of the South)
At this rate, I expect to see hominids with rudimentary tool skills in the Deep South by the end of 2014.
Why does the NSA hate our Freedoms?
Like Dubai.
That said, the main barriers are the cost to make PVs, and the storage of the energy itself.
Sunny climates could use the PV windows to generate electricity for cooling buildings, which is up to 40 percent of energy usage in a lot of the world, and even for vehicles to extend their running range, depending on the characteristics of the PV material.
Think that's morel likely. Next Occupy confrontation, suddenly everyone's phone stops working.
They already have secret wireless networks in most major cities.
Wouldn't put it past them.
When both Canada (CSE) and the US (NSA) spy on everyone around the world, including their own citizens in their own countries, against their own Constitutions, how can this mean anything?
Or did you not notice the cables being cut and spliced when we did it?
No, cogenerating coal plants are more efficient.
But we don't use those.
second cousins, actually.
nice try, but I was in intel before you were in diapers.
Tesla is building an I-5 corridor battery swap location chain from Vancouver BC Canada down to San Diego CA.
Which means if you live near the main highways in the True West, you never worry about not having a fresh battery in a Tesla.
Very good point.
Note that the main problem with all electric vehicles is the power mix and cost depends on how electricity is generated.
Electricity in much of the West is from a mix of solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and hydroelectric power, which result in an e-gallon costing about 1/10th what a gallon of gas costs.
In areas with coal-fired electric we're starting to see (Economics studies) indications of coal and oil increasing in cost, making the comparative costs different and the climate change and pollution impacts also different. However, if you have home and work solar or wind power, you can always trickle charge the battery systems to ensure a near 100 percent green fuel, and since solar costs are dropping fast (cheaper than oil now, competitive with coal) this may change quickly.
Some relatives and friends of mine use all electric or mostly electric cars to - basically - pay nothing in gas (other than an annual gas engine assist "burn" for the mostly electric ones) and as a result "fill up their tanks" with cheap electrons. Even if they add costs for solar charging or buy "green" power mix from the utility (solar/wind/hydro mix) it still works out to around 1/8th the cost of gasoline.
Not that fusion is as far off as people think it is. There are some really promising experiments other than the big ones, that seem single digit years away from usable designs.
I've been hearing that since the 1963 World's Fair.
Here, we have no income state (Washington State), only sales tax.
And, most of our energy is a mix of hydroelectric, solar, and wind (yes, solar is very effective here).
While I think moving to all electric vehicles in green states like ours is a good thing, and cheaper than gas (about 1/10th the cost), not sure if they should get a sales tax exemption since the only people buying Tesla cars (which have a showroom 20 blocks south of me) are rich people who generally avoid paying even 1/3 as much percentage of tax as the other 99 percent of citizens that pay the bills.
Same goes for fleet purchases - note that education and state/municipal don't pay sales taxes (and never have).
Remember, the family that is spied on together, stays together in Stasi Germany ... uh, Soviet Amerikkka ...
Seriously, this spying on Americans stuff is getting way out of hand.
Hey, Bruce.
What is your current feeling on the current trends in fiction - in book form, manga, anime, TV, and film - have we gone away from hard SF towards science fiction focused on relationships and societies, or is this just a surface trend as we deal with the actual implications of reality and the near future?
And, in terms of that, do you think 2020 will be the way many writers thought it would be, or is it vastly different?
The main problem is, when we factor in water, fertilizer, production, processing, and shipping, that corn ethanol barely reaches replacement level for energy.
Other cellulosic ethanols have higher energy yields (stored energy per unit) and lower energy inputs, for example: algae, switchgrass, and cane sugar ethanol.
Subsidizing corn ethanol production is like shooting yourself in the foot and then declaring that it's ok to shoot you since you're disabled.
Robots are yesterday's news.
We grow human tissues and organs here at the UW.
We are where the surgery robot in Ender's Game came from.
Others try.
We DO.
Period.
Look, it's getting out of control.
Tech CEOs know that.
Only idiots in DC don't know that.
RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION!
P.S.: either that or let's hope an asteroid wipes out SCOTUS and Capitol Hill at the same time.
What's a cassette tape, grandpa?
It's like bubble memory for the soul
We coded in hex. And we liked it.
Remember when you sent data tapes on cassette. And it was just a typical 30 minute cassette tape?
Well, I wasn't going to be mean and suggest he use punched cards and put them in a manilla routing envelope to send via UPS ...