Almost half of the GDP of America is from Western states which mandate a minimum (from 10 to 20 percent) of all new energy production must be in the form of alternative energy - specifically solar, wind, tidal, geothermal - not including fission or hydroelectric.
The West is in the 21st Century already.
We're just waiting for the rest of the nation to catch up.
Oh, and we have way tougher emissions regulations than you do.
The original Model T got better mileage than most of the cars on the road, actually.
The problem is that we don't charge a $10 a gallon carbon tax on fuel like most of the world does.
Do that and you'll see fuel efficiency skyrocket.
Classic supply and demand curve.
Use the carbon tax from fuel to pay for building high speed passenger trains instead of airports and to build wind-powered and solar-powered refueling stations nationwide.
One could also point out that, for $2000, you can buy a Tato Nano car that gets more than 60 mpg, uses less material to make it (thus less emissions during construction), and the excess capital between that $2000 and the $32,000 you spend on a hybrid can be invested in buying wind turbines in the US for a net loss of carbon emissions about 20 times that, over the lifetime of the vehicle, than for the hybrid
My current 1996 Saturn SC2 gets the required EPA mpg already. And it's paid for.
If you read through it, you'll notice they allow all-electric cars to count as zero-emission vehicles, when in actual practice, the emissions depend on where you get the energy from.
So, each manufacturer gets an allotment with a cap for any electric cars they churn out.
But someone in a state which makes electricity from coal - like Wisconsin - creates more emissions pollution using the same all-electric Chevy Volt car than someone in a state using hydroelectric, nuclear fission, solar, wind, and tidal like Washington State.
In Seattle, our utility is carbon-neutral - no emissions. In Madison it's carbon-heavy - coal.
Another thing to notice is that the mpg requirements vary based on the footprint of the vehicle.
So if you made a very thin batmobile you could get sucky mileage and be "better" than a car with twice the mpg that has a small footprint like a Smart Car.
Of course, none of this will prevent somebody installing an industrial electric turbine in their batmobile to go 0 to 60 in 0.9 seconds - cause all-electric dragsters outrace even the best gasoline or diesel vehicle. Unless you use jet fuel.
From grade 6 onwards, I got a GPA between 3.4 and 4.0 in BC schools, and have a couple of degrees from BC public colleges, in addition to my post-grad work at the UW here in Seattle WA.
Having seen the disastrous attempt to have less formal math in WA schools, and comparing it to my much more stringent schooling in BC - we used to make fun of Grade 13 grads from Ontario since they were less capable of Math than we British Columbian Grade 12 seniors - I must strongly disagree with this professor.
By the way, I seriously doubt Boston is in BC. Last time I checked it was nearer to where I was in Grades 1-5 in Pennsylvania, which is to say... Massachusets (or MA).
Because, quite frankly, the US still controls the network interconnects for the root servers, so all China can accomplish is local control of the Chinese root domain (hosted in their country by treaty).
We could easily disconnect them from the Net if they try to launch serious attacks, there are switches built into all the satellites and trunks.
One of the useful results of the insane rejection of stem cell research was the exception for researchers to use their own cells, which is where we got some of this from.
We've also found that moms carry the pluripotent stem cells of all their children, including stillbirths and abortions inside them, which has both positive (increased immunity) and negative (resistance factors) impacts.
It's very frustrating for parents of autistic children. And not surprising that people might latch onto limited observations they can make, even if their conclusions have no scientific or statistical value.
Some of the diseases we do research on have very long gestation periods - people incorrectly think they "did" something recently to cause the disease to occur, and frequently the parents beat themselves up over "causes" they imagine to exist, but which are very very unlikely to have anything to do with what caused the disease.
Of course, nowadays, the Internet gives people an equal voice, which sometimes lets those spreading theories a louder voice than those who actually study the problems scientifically.
Let me be crystal clear about this, vaccines do not cause autism nor is there any decent study that is statistically and/or scientifically valid which shows such a provable correlation.
And we're running studies of autism here, led by one of my colleagues who has an autistic child herself.
You really need to move on.
The problem is that, for most people, they grasp at straws and try to find some observable "cause" they can link with autism. It's quite possible that it has more to do with environmental and/or emotional stresses on the mother but people try to put the cart before the horse and "prove" that a vaccine - which may have been due to travel (hint - enviro/emo stress) or bad health conditions (same) - was the cause.
Please, move on, you're just embarrassing yourselves.
You have to realize that people use social networks for different things.
My nephew, who is 2 weeks old, has a FB page, so that my sis and brother-in-law can post pics and vids and news about him, as well as "friend" relatives from that page.
Technically, I'm very very popular, which was true before games became a thing on FB, but the addition of games has caused my popularity to explode, so that now you might surmise I have a lot of conservative southern friends, but that would be incorrect, as I just play games with them, and delete their posts on my Wall most of the time.
In addition, some of my friends have multiple accounts, some of which are for historical or ficitional personae (e.g. famous environmentalists or writers in the 18th century), which have "friends" who like that personae, in addition to being used as spare accounts in games to get around game limits.
People trust the Internet far more than they should. Just because Google tells you something, or it's on a Wiki, does NOT mean it is true or WAS true. We're all SCA personae, partially based on our own selves or an aspect of our selves, and partially based on a mythology or activity that we overexpress in the context of the network.
I hand coded some programs for my gf at the time. one mistake and you had to do it again - total pain.
When I started coding, 16k was a minicomputer and we ran on punch cards we used a pencil for, and later got my hands on the operator console for a System/360...
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We already do this in the West.
Almost half of the GDP of America is from Western states which mandate a minimum (from 10 to 20 percent) of all new energy production must be in the form of alternative energy - specifically solar, wind, tidal, geothermal - not including fission or hydroelectric.
The West is in the 21st Century already.
We're just waiting for the rest of the nation to catch up.
Oh, and we have way tougher emissions regulations than you do.
Heck, BC even has a carbon tax, up north.
The original Model T got better mileage than most of the cars on the road, actually.
The problem is that we don't charge a $10 a gallon carbon tax on fuel like most of the world does.
Do that and you'll see fuel efficiency skyrocket.
Classic supply and demand curve.
Use the carbon tax from fuel to pay for building high speed passenger trains instead of airports and to build wind-powered and solar-powered refueling stations nationwide.
A better bet would be, don't sell trucks or truck-like vehicles, to soccer moms in the first place.
Or outlaw kids and dogs being in them.
You're a fucking idiot. Freighters are the most efficient way to transport goods that humanity has ever developed.
Not really. The most efficient are non-powered or sail-assisted barges on canals. Freighters use a lot of dirty bunker fuel.
I know this because I've been on both and I own shares in a freighter company.
I use a bucky ball ballon car. It may look like a Mars Lander, but it has excellent survivability.
For survivability you don't want "sturdyness", you want the car to be crumply.
In Europe they have 50 mpg already. 35 mpg is way way way behind EU standards.
One could also point out that, for $2000, you can buy a Tato Nano car that gets more than 60 mpg, uses less material to make it (thus less emissions during construction), and the excess capital between that $2000 and the $32,000 you spend on a hybrid can be invested in buying wind turbines in the US for a net loss of carbon emissions about 20 times that, over the lifetime of the vehicle, than for the hybrid
My current 1996 Saturn SC2 gets the required EPA mpg already. And it's paid for.
If you read through it, you'll notice they allow all-electric cars to count as zero-emission vehicles, when in actual practice, the emissions depend on where you get the energy from.
So, each manufacturer gets an allotment with a cap for any electric cars they churn out.
But someone in a state which makes electricity from coal - like Wisconsin - creates more emissions pollution using the same all-electric Chevy Volt car than someone in a state using hydroelectric, nuclear fission, solar, wind, and tidal like Washington State.
In Seattle, our utility is carbon-neutral - no emissions. In Madison it's carbon-heavy - coal.
Another thing to notice is that the mpg requirements vary based on the footprint of the vehicle.
So if you made a very thin batmobile you could get sucky mileage and be "better" than a car with twice the mpg that has a small footprint like a Smart Car.
Of course, none of this will prevent somebody installing an industrial electric turbine in their batmobile to go 0 to 60 in 0.9 seconds - cause all-electric dragsters outrace even the best gasoline or diesel vehicle. Unless you use jet fuel.
From grade 6 onwards, I got a GPA between 3.4 and 4.0 in BC schools, and have a couple of degrees from BC public colleges, in addition to my post-grad work at the UW here in Seattle WA.
Having seen the disastrous attempt to have less formal math in WA schools, and comparing it to my much more stringent schooling in BC - we used to make fun of Grade 13 grads from Ontario since they were less capable of Math than we British Columbian Grade 12 seniors - I must strongly disagree with this professor.
By the way, I seriously doubt Boston is in BC. Last time I checked it was nearer to where I was in Grades 1-5 in Pennsylvania, which is to say ... Massachusets (or MA).
Because, quite frankly, the US still controls the network interconnects for the root servers, so all China can accomplish is local control of the Chinese root domain (hosted in their country by treaty).
We could easily disconnect them from the Net if they try to launch serious attacks, there are switches built into all the satellites and trunks.
One of the useful results of the insane rejection of stem cell research was the exception for researchers to use their own cells, which is where we got some of this from.
We've also found that moms carry the pluripotent stem cells of all their children, including stillbirths and abortions inside them, which has both positive (increased immunity) and negative (resistance factors) impacts.
Actually, we have been doing scaffolding work on various body parts for years, including livers and other organs.
The hard one is the heart - the cardiovascular veins are easier to replace one by one though.
oh come on they patched 16 holes today.
A Mac is basically BSD.
I stand by my original post.
Want security? Buy a Mac.
Want s/w that breaks? Buy Windows.
Want to roll your own and get every ounce of power out - use a Linux distro.
At one point I was the acting security officer for Pacific Region. If people can subvert security they will.
Not much has changed in the security sphere for a long time, and difficult security just begs to be subverted.
Cause if it doesn't, I want no part of it.
It's very frustrating for parents of autistic children. And not surprising that people might latch onto limited observations they can make, even if their conclusions have no scientific or statistical value.
Some of the diseases we do research on have very long gestation periods - people incorrectly think they "did" something recently to cause the disease to occur, and frequently the parents beat themselves up over "causes" they imagine to exist, but which are very very unlikely to have anything to do with what caused the disease.
Of course, nowadays, the Internet gives people an equal voice, which sometimes lets those spreading theories a louder voice than those who actually study the problems scientifically.
I'm not being glib. Travel correlates to a whole host of environmental, social, and other stress factors.
Now, step away from your non-scientific belief system and realize that the court ruled correctly.
No, not really. You cause more stress just by watching a scary movie.
Let me be crystal clear about this, vaccines do not cause autism nor is there any decent study that is statistically and/or scientifically valid which shows such a provable correlation.
And we're running studies of autism here, led by one of my colleagues who has an autistic child herself.
You really need to move on.
The problem is that, for most people, they grasp at straws and try to find some observable "cause" they can link with autism. It's quite possible that it has more to do with environmental and/or emotional stresses on the mother but people try to put the cart before the horse and "prove" that a vaccine - which may have been due to travel (hint - enviro/emo stress) or bad health conditions (same) - was the cause.
Please, move on, you're just embarrassing yourselves.
You have to realize that people use social networks for different things.
My nephew, who is 2 weeks old, has a FB page, so that my sis and brother-in-law can post pics and vids and news about him, as well as "friend" relatives from that page.
Technically, I'm very very popular, which was true before games became a thing on FB, but the addition of games has caused my popularity to explode, so that now you might surmise I have a lot of conservative southern friends, but that would be incorrect, as I just play games with them, and delete their posts on my Wall most of the time.
In addition, some of my friends have multiple accounts, some of which are for historical or ficitional personae (e.g. famous environmentalists or writers in the 18th century), which have "friends" who like that personae, in addition to being used as spare accounts in games to get around game limits.
People trust the Internet far more than they should. Just because Google tells you something, or it's on a Wiki, does NOT mean it is true or WAS true. We're all SCA personae, partially based on our own selves or an aspect of our selves, and partially based on a mythology or activity that we overexpress in the context of the network.
It's a lot cheaper there.
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that's why it's funny.
I hand coded some programs for my gf at the time. one mistake and you had to do it again - total pain.
When I started coding, 16k was a minicomputer and we ran on punch cards we used a pencil for, and later got my hands on the operator console for a System/360 ...
So you admit you're not old enough to actually have been working in the field back then?
LOL. You microserfs are fun.