and another thing, I used to do CAE/CADD on a system with 32MB RAM and 24MHz processor. Hook this little thing up to a $5 flash drive, donated/cast off keyboard, monitor and mouse, and you have more computer than the Sparc 2 workstation circa 1992 I'm remembering.
funny, my cell phone is an ARM powered linux device. A 3rd world person learning to code on this would be light-years ahead of most first world students taking the typical intro to programming fare at college. People might complain that it must be hooked to keyboard and monitor, but cubic meters of those are disposed of by first world homes and businesses.
When you wake up one morning and it takes a wheelbarrow full of the "dirty green paper" to buy a loaf of bread, will you still be happy with it? This has happened in history to other countries on the same trajectory we are currently pursuing. Paper notes backed with something of value is real money, we used to have that.
Paper and electronic money is fine, if backed with something of value. We used to have that. The value of the "money" we have now can plummet in value to near zero overnight.
Wake up, the bailout money indeed went to Germany and French and other foreign banks, huge swedish companies indeed were bought by U.S. corporations and got U.S. bailout money
Hardly, I paid for my college education by working. I go to hire and most of the interviewees, products of public education, can neither speak, read, nor write at what was a high school level in the early 1970s. From my point of view they are functionally at an I.Q. of 90 or less, which had the quaint designation of a "moron" decades ago. I can prove that taxes don't buy civilization, look at the ghettos with welfare and HUD money flowing in, and out comes savages with no regard for others property or human life. The building block of society and civilization is the family. When we pay whore-bags to spread their legs for every man who comes along, and children grow up with no supervision nor leadership, we get what we see in the inner cities.
But we have public education and the problems of clueless voters is growing. Obviously, public education is failing to provide what you imagine it will
Imagine a life without taxing to put money in another's pocket, both those that refuse to work and also the globalist mega-corporation parasites that are draining this country. Taxing just to do the legitimate functions of government.
That really isn't money, just debt notes. History proves the value of such things can drop to zero in a short period of time. We stopped using real money, because the banking cartel parasites seduced the government into that situation over a period of half a century.
Just because someone else has "need" does not mean it is alright to confiscate *my wealth* and redistribute it. Your education, your food, your clothing are your responsibility, not mine. Ron Paul merely endorses the proper way things should be, including a very limited government and individual responsibility. and initiative. The US will fail if it continues to act on the lies of socialism, "state capitalism", and oligarchy.
No, it's the responsibility of the individual to work if they want something better for themselves. I paid for my college, I didn't expect hand-out from government. I have more important things to spend my money on, then to have it confiscated to support the lazy, the stupid, and the unmotivated. I'm sick of this bullshit, all I'm getting in return is responsibility for the ever climbing national debt.
We have that now, with government education. What an utter failure, a nations of morons who only want hand-outs from the government. And all those countries some are going to list for me with "free healthcare" and "free education" all have one thing in common, they are either failing or were bailed out by the U.S. of A. I'm tired of having my money taken from me and given to failing morons.
For just $19.95 more you can have my matching accessorized *little* high-tensile strength hat to protect your other head and related bits. Think of the future children! Don't let the mind control rays or deliberate space debris flinging harm your plumbing or little swimmers!
I've an even better one, I have sitting here two 10" uranium glass plates, of which of course 0.72% is U-235. The former owners, relatives of mine who gave it too me to make my geiger counter do something fun and interesting for my kids, ate meals off the stuff for decades since they were married. They are in their 80s, that U-235 must be a really slow poison! ha!
u-235 doesn't emit "neutron rays", it decays by alpha emission into Th-231, with a half life of 700 million years. You can even hold a piece of the metal in your hand, wearing just the gloves of a rad suit so you don't have ingestible particles left on your skin. Sure, in a running reactor or exploding old-style fission bomb it can absorb neutron and then fission into many things including neutrons, but there are no exploding reactors or atomic bombs in Tokyo. In general, you need never worry about neutron fields, the situations that would put you in one are generally uniformly fatal.
Rather than geiger counter, there are plenty of electronic pocket dosimeters which can also show accumulated dose. Your main concern is measuring gamma. These dosimeters will run from $200 to $600 for a basic model. Some even can show dose rate graph over time. http://www.dosimeter.com/survey-meters/digilert-100-survey-meter/
You're not thinking things through. Electric motors are mostly made and fueled by fossil fuels. But it is stupid to talk of sacrifice, there is no need as there is plenty of abundant energy on this earth. But some people, like you, feel this irrational need to self-flagellate and feel guilty like a monk in the closet beating himself. The fact remains that fossil fuels have done far more good than bad, have increased human life and prevented suffering. Likely you and most people you know would have died long ago without the benefits of fossil fuel, history proves it.
Now if you want to talk about doing something truly smart, we can talk about bringing massive amounts of gen III and gen IV reactors online, and tap into the centuries of thorium supply we have to power us while we work out fusion or just massive solar collectors.
But to say "cap and trade" would do anything other than promote scams, increase unemployment, and kill the already shaky global economy is just nonsense. We need long term solutions so we can live even better and consume even more energy (which is what alone drives progress and betterment of life). But instead we have the typical "progressive liberal" stupidity of taxing something to control, like California's cap and trade nonsense, which doesn't drive progress and will only harm themselves.
Hate to break it to you, anonymous, but there has already been billions of Euros of proven cap and trade scams in Europe. They're like indulgences in the middle ages, buying fake pieces of the cross and fake thorns from jeebzuses head so you can sin with impunity. Of course, the well meaning but devoid of sense californians have jumped right on board with this farce.
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and another thing, I used to do CAE/CADD on a system with 32MB RAM and 24MHz processor. Hook this little thing up to a $5 flash drive, donated/cast off keyboard, monitor and mouse, and you have more computer than the Sparc 2 workstation circa 1992 I'm remembering.
funny, my cell phone is an ARM powered linux device. A 3rd world person learning to code on this would be light-years ahead of most first world students taking the typical intro to programming fare at college. People might complain that it must be hooked to keyboard and monitor, but cubic meters of those are disposed of by first world homes and businesses.
When you wake up one morning and it takes a wheelbarrow full of the "dirty green paper" to buy a loaf of bread, will you still be happy with it? This has happened in history to other countries on the same trajectory we are currently pursuing. Paper notes backed with something of value is real money, we used to have that.
Paper and electronic money is fine, if backed with something of value. We used to have that. The value of the "money" we have now can plummet in value to near zero overnight.
Wake up, the bailout money indeed went to Germany and French and other foreign banks, huge swedish companies indeed were bought by U.S. corporations and got U.S. bailout money
We could start by talking about Volvo and Saab.....
Hardly, I paid for my college education by working. I go to hire and most of the interviewees, products of public education, can neither speak, read, nor write at what was a high school level in the early 1970s. From my point of view they are functionally at an I.Q. of 90 or less, which had the quaint designation of a "moron" decades ago. I can prove that taxes don't buy civilization, look at the ghettos with welfare and HUD money flowing in, and out comes savages with no regard for others property or human life. The building block of society and civilization is the family. When we pay whore-bags to spread their legs for every man who comes along, and children grow up with no supervision nor leadership, we get what we see in the inner cities.
But we have public education and the problems of clueless voters is growing. Obviously, public education is failing to provide what you imagine it will
Imagine a life without taxing to put money in another's pocket, both those that refuse to work and also the globalist mega-corporation parasites that are draining this country. Taxing just to do the legitimate functions of government.
The rate of defaults defeats the interest.
That really isn't money, just debt notes. History proves the value of such things can drop to zero in a short period of time. We stopped using real money, because the banking cartel parasites seduced the government into that situation over a period of half a century.
Just because someone else has "need" does not mean it is alright to confiscate *my wealth* and redistribute it. Your education, your food, your clothing are your responsibility, not mine. Ron Paul merely endorses the proper way things should be, including a very limited government and individual responsibility. and initiative. The US will fail if it continues to act on the lies of socialism, "state capitalism", and oligarchy.
No, it's the responsibility of the individual to work if they want something better for themselves. I paid for my college, I didn't expect hand-out from government. I have more important things to spend my money on, then to have it confiscated to support the lazy, the stupid, and the unmotivated. I'm sick of this bullshit, all I'm getting in return is responsibility for the ever climbing national debt.
We have that now, with government education. What an utter failure, a nations of morons who only want hand-outs from the government. And all those countries some are going to list for me with "free healthcare" and "free education" all have one thing in common, they are either failing or were bailed out by the U.S. of A. I'm tired of having my money taken from me and given to failing morons.
you forgot the juicy bits:
Like Jobs a profited the deaths, maiming, suffering and physical abuse of Chinese workers including children
good luck suing sovereign governments, they don't pay up
For just $19.95 more you can have my matching accessorized *little* high-tensile strength hat to protect your other head and related bits. Think of the future children! Don't let the mind control rays or deliberate space debris flinging harm your plumbing or little swimmers!
I've an even better one, I have sitting here two 10" uranium glass plates, of which of course 0.72% is U-235. The former owners, relatives of mine who gave it too me to make my geiger counter do something fun and interesting for my kids, ate meals off the stuff for decades since they were married. They are in their 80s, that U-235 must be a really slow poison! ha!
don't live in fearful ignorance, educate yourself.
The alpha particle from decaying u-235 can be stopped by a few centimeters of air, a sheet of paper or by your skin.
u-235 doesn't emit "neutron rays", it decays by alpha emission into Th-231, with a half life of 700 million years. You can even hold a piece of the metal in your hand, wearing just the gloves of a rad suit so you don't have ingestible particles left on your skin. Sure, in a running reactor or exploding old-style fission bomb it can absorb neutron and then fission into many things including neutrons, but there are no exploding reactors or atomic bombs in Tokyo. In general, you need never worry about neutron fields, the situations that would put you in one are generally uniformly fatal.
Rather than geiger counter, there are plenty of electronic pocket dosimeters which can also show accumulated dose. Your main concern is measuring gamma. These dosimeters will run from $200 to $600 for a basic model. Some even can show dose rate graph over time. http://www.dosimeter.com/survey-meters/digilert-100-survey-meter/
You're not thinking things through. Electric motors are mostly made and fueled by fossil fuels. But it is stupid to talk of sacrifice, there is no need as there is plenty of abundant energy on this earth. But some people, like you, feel this irrational need to self-flagellate and feel guilty like a monk in the closet beating himself. The fact remains that fossil fuels have done far more good than bad, have increased human life and prevented suffering. Likely you and most people you know would have died long ago without the benefits of fossil fuel, history proves it.
Now if you want to talk about doing something truly smart, we can talk about bringing massive amounts of gen III and gen IV reactors online, and tap into the centuries of thorium supply we have to power us while we work out fusion or just massive solar collectors.
But to say "cap and trade" would do anything other than promote scams, increase unemployment, and kill the already shaky global economy is just nonsense. We need long term solutions so we can live even better and consume even more energy (which is what alone drives progress and betterment of life). But instead we have the typical "progressive liberal" stupidity of taxing something to control, like California's cap and trade nonsense, which doesn't drive progress and will only harm themselves.
No, I'm just ignoring fools who recook their books with every sensational weather event
Hate to break it to you, anonymous, but there has already been billions of Euros of proven cap and trade scams in Europe. They're like indulgences in the middle ages, buying fake pieces of the cross and fake thorns from jeebzuses head so you can sin with impunity. Of course, the well meaning but devoid of sense californians have jumped right on board with this farce.
No, that is a legitimate field, while the "climatologists" of the CRU are power and money agenda-driven hype monkeys