I mean if you tell them there is a vulnerability and they ignore it, and if you show them, you go to jail and pay huge fines, might as well sell the idea, pocket the cash and move on.
The IPCC seems to have been founded with an agenda to show humans were the cause (in 1988) but since then I see comments (in the wiki article) that it is being taken over by right wingers and some of the leftists are quitting (in 2005) because they don't like the work the IPCC is doing now (in 2006).
In other words- just like with most things today- you can't tell who is telling the truth.
I can't tell if the IPCC is pro global warming is humans meme or not.
In Texas (and many other states), you can be fired without notice and without reason as long as it is not one of the big protected reasons (race, religion, sex).
While I agree with your point, there is a lot of pressure on scientists to conform with the "Global warming is caused by humans" meme. If you do not agree, you are likely to be cut off from good positions and grants.
Personally, given observed warming on mars, jupiter and pluto and numerous ice ages and hot ages in earth's history, I think we are presuming a bit much about human impact.
This bit by exxon does stink a bit. This global warming stuff is "soft" enough that it can be manipulated by how you ask the questions. If it was hard science, it wouldn't matter who did the research.
As a non-christian I can see your point. James Watt is famous for statements like that when he was leading the EPA.
However, at a lower level, christians are supposed to husband the earth. So I would say that one extremist group of christians who believe that we are in the end times view the earth as expendable. I would not say that a majority of christians believe the earth is expendable for these reasons or that the end times will come in their life times.
I believe none of the claptrap either way- but it's fun to listen to them debate obscure points of their internal fictions.
They've found a rather large number of folks at Gitmo to be innocent.
Do a search for british gitmo prisoners.
We (america) engaged in *TORTURE* of them which means any admission of guilt on their parts is suspect.
If I were to waterboard you, shave you, parade you around naked, etc. as we have done to these guys, you would confess to just about anything in under 48 hours.
We really need to hold ourselves to higher standards if we hope to be the shining beacon on the hill.
Or we just need to say we are savages too and stop pretending we are better than everyone else.
You have a good point. I guess in today's environment I need to restrict it.
But you know, even your work computers may have key loggers installed (by management no less).
So I guess the only reasonably (but not completely) safe computer would be your home computer.
The benefits are very large. I guess I should put any significant funds in a bank that I have to walk in the door and keep a few thousand in another bank for day to day convenience and bill paying. That's effectively what I do now but I was not doing it conciously.
You know what is amazing is that I can use any browser with my bank's online banking software. So I can use any operating system. So I can use any random computer anywhere (friend's, work, library, random internet kiosk at the breckenridge ski resort up on the mountain)
And that I never considered that amazing before today.
1) We'll spare no expense! (to outsource to non employees) 2) We'll spare no expense! (yup, we havn't upgraded our test software or environments for over three years now) 3) staffing cut so low that now projects regularly cancelled, pushed back be cause a key technical person doesn't exist any more or there is ONE where there used to be three. So if the guy is sick, on vacation, in training, gets moved to a higher priority project-- reschedule the project. 4) Load testing before production? Bwahhaha. "Just make it work!" "oh, why is it working differently now that 3k users are hitting it? Well fix it right away!"
I'm sitting here on the windows XP box I purchased 3 days ago... with my main win2k box STILL running flawlessly to it's right.
The hardware is the main reason I upgraded-- that and i don't enjoy scratch building like i used to.
However, all my "real" processing is headed towards linux- the windows box is mainly for gaming. I just don't trust windows any more with my data. I think they will try to lock it in and they will control it for other people at my expense.
I think the inverter life depends on if you are completely disconnected from the grid or if you are connected. It is unlikely that your house would take a lightning surge. However, if you are grid tied, then it's very likely you are going to take lightning hits (I probably take 10 to 12 per year). You'll also have extreme fluctations, brownouts and sudden drops when a tree falls across the line or a transformer explodes.
Which means a power conditioner (which will it self need to be replaced after so many hits).
I think solar will face a problem that demand will keep the price high. Even now, you see panels out of stock a lot of the time. A lot of people want solar for remote cabins, RV's and so on and every time the price drops a little, there is huge pent up demand so the new cells get snapped up. Until production significantly exceeds supply, prices will remain high.
The problem with investing in the market in this case is that you must take money out to pay for power every year. This magnifies your losses because you have to sell when your position is down.
Given 100k. The market goes up 15%, then down 30%, then up 15% two more years.
While your principle is back above 100k after 4 years, you've really lost ground accounting for inflation. And what's more likely is that you'll get out of the market after that stinging second year loss of almost 20,000 dollars.
The bond market is many times the size of the stock market. People with a lot of money prefer risk free return. It is very stressful to be up or down $10,000 dollars on a single day if you think about it too much.
Your more realistic estimate of the earnings from the bank money may balance the more pessimistic cost reductions however. A $65k system is going to have a ferocious payoff time.
OTH, electricity is up 300% since (roughly) 1985 (memory of some research I did on electricity inflation as part of this).
If electric is $2k a year now then it is likely to be $6k a year in 20 years.
Also, if you have a paid off solar system, it's one less bill to cover from that point on. I have pretty grave concerns about the maintenance costs tho.
There is a risk that your solar roof could be *partially* taken out by a storm but it is unlikely it would be completely taken out unless your house was taken out.
During the last major windstorm in my area, 50 year old trees fell over and damaged maybe 3% of the surface area of 5% of the roofs in the neighborhood (so.15% of solar cells would have been broken if all roofs had them). The rest of the roofs were undamaged.
There has been no other damage to roofs in the last 10 years.
Roofs are pretty tough. Solar shingles are pretty tough. It is a risk/insurance issue to consider but with insurance would probable amount to less than $100 per year.
I like the maintenance issues for that but you do need to consider the costs of a storage facility for that water and maintenance (fixing leaks, fixing generators that the water touches so is likely to break in under 20 years, etc.)
Using more expensive batteries is going to extend the payoff period for your solar system. If everyone starts using them, they are going to get more expensive short term. Many people will fail to maintain them at the level you specify so that means they will fail or they will have to hire someone to maintain them. Again- this raises the cost.
My basic point is: compare the money invested vs the money put into solar. when the numbers make sense (even if they mildly didn't make sense) I'd go solar. For now, they are not even close. They only make sense if you can get the government to give you thousands of dollars worth of other people's tax money.
I think you are overstating OO's weaknesses and Word's strengths just a little bit. Word locks me into windows. I don't mind having a "throw away" windows box for gaming but I no longer trust windows at a basic level to protect me and my critical data.
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It was well known in the 80's.
Not surprised a bit to see it updated for the 00's.
I mean if you tell them there is a vulnerability and they ignore it, and if you show them, you go to jail and pay huge fines, might as well sell the idea, pocket the cash and move on.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.
The IPCC seems to have been founded with an agenda to show humans were the cause (in 1988) but since then I see comments (in the wiki article) that it is being taken over by right wingers and some of the leftists are quitting (in 2005) because they don't like the work the IPCC is doing now (in 2006).
In other words- just like with most things today- you can't tell who is telling the truth.
I can't tell if the IPCC is pro global warming is humans meme or not.
Depends on your state bud.
In Texas (and many other states), you can be fired without notice and without reason as long as it is not one of the big protected reasons (race, religion, sex).
While I agree with your point, there is a lot of pressure on scientists to conform with the "Global warming is caused by humans" meme. If you do not agree, you are likely to be cut off from good positions and grants.
Personally, given observed warming on mars, jupiter and pluto and numerous ice ages and hot ages in earth's history, I think we are presuming a bit much about human impact.
This bit by exxon does stink a bit. This global warming stuff is "soft" enough that it can be manipulated by how you ask the questions. If it was hard science, it wouldn't matter who did the research.
As a non-christian I can see your point. James Watt is famous for statements like that when he was leading the EPA.
However, at a lower level, christians are supposed to husband the earth. So I would say that one extremist group of christians who believe that we are in the end times view the earth as expendable. I would not say that a majority of christians believe the earth is expendable for these reasons or that the end times will come in their life times.
I believe none of the claptrap either way- but it's fun to listen to them debate obscure points of their internal fictions.
That's just goofy thinking.
If I only have $1 to spend period, then after you have gotten that $1 from me, you are losing nothing.
Phil.
Seriously...
They've found a rather large number of folks at Gitmo to be innocent.
Do a search for british gitmo prisoners.
We (america) engaged in *TORTURE* of them which means any admission of guilt on their parts is suspect.
If I were to waterboard you, shave you, parade you around naked, etc. as we have done to these guys, you would confess to just about anything in under 48 hours.
We really need to hold ourselves to higher standards if we hope to be the shining beacon on the hill.
Or we just need to say we are savages too and stop pretending we are better than everyone else.
they got wind of any service that would pay for user content in the wind did they?
You have a good point. I guess in today's environment I need to restrict it.
But you know, even your work computers may have key loggers installed (by management no less).
So I guess the only reasonably (but not completely) safe computer would be your home computer.
The benefits are very large. I guess I should put any significant funds in a bank that I have to walk in the door and keep a few thousand in another bank for day to day convenience and bill paying. That's effectively what I do now but I was not doing it conciously.
You know what is amazing is that I can use any browser with my bank's online banking software.
So I can use any operating system.
So I can use any random computer anywhere (friend's, work, library, random internet kiosk at the breckenridge ski resort up on the mountain)
And that I never considered that amazing before today.
The question is- once a state realizes how many restrictions and forced/costly behaviors are tied to federal highway money do they say screw it.
Some (not all) fast food is made with substances that fool your brain into wanting to eat more.
And most fast foods are made with simple sugars and finely ground grains that also have a similar effect.
You can see the second effect yourself.
Remove sugars and flour from your diet (eat veggies, meat, healthy stuff) for about a couple months month.
Then eat something mostly made of flour for your meal-- like say a 21oz frozen lasania (sp)
You will be surprised how incredibly hungry you get about a half hour after you ate it (almost 2 pounds of stuff).
1) We'll spare no expense! (to outsource to non employees)
2) We'll spare no expense! (yup, we havn't upgraded our test software or environments for over three years now)
3) staffing cut so low that now projects regularly cancelled, pushed back be cause a key technical person doesn't exist any more or there is ONE where there used to be three. So if the guy is sick, on vacation, in training, gets moved to a higher priority project-- reschedule the project.
4) Load testing before production? Bwahhaha. "Just make it work!" "oh, why is it working differently now that 3k users are hitting it? Well fix it right away!"
Spare no expense... too complicated....
BAH!
I'm sitting here on the windows XP box I purchased 3 days ago... with my main win2k box STILL running flawlessly to it's right.
The hardware is the main reason I upgraded-- that and i don't enjoy scratch building like i used to.
However, all my "real" processing is headed towards linux- the windows box is mainly for gaming. I just don't trust windows any more with my data. I think they will try to lock it in and they will control it for other people at my expense.
Pretty easy... just look at cable TV.
Amazing how all the cable people required monopolies to run cable but no one needed a monopoly to run high speed internet.
I would actually say that with the advent of SOX, obsessive compulsive behavior became the best policy.
We follow our procedures. The goal is to follow the procedures, not to be honest or to be productive.
Our executives can still write huge checks without even a co-signer.
I think the inverter life depends on if you are completely disconnected from the grid or if you are connected.
It is unlikely that your house would take a lightning surge. However, if you are grid tied, then it's very likely you are going to take lightning hits (I probably take 10 to 12 per year). You'll also have extreme fluctations, brownouts and sudden drops when a tree falls across the line or a transformer explodes.
Which means a power conditioner (which will it self need to be replaced after so many hits).
I think solar will face a problem that demand will keep the price high. Even now, you see panels out of stock a lot of the time. A lot of people want solar for remote cabins, RV's and so on and every time the price drops a little, there is huge pent up demand so the new cells get snapped up. Until production significantly exceeds supply, prices will remain high.
The problem with investing in the market in this case is that you must take money out to pay for power every year.
This magnifies your losses because you have to sell when your position is down.
Given 100k.
The market goes up 15%, then down 30%, then up 15% two more years.
1.150000 0.700000 1.150000 1.150000
115000.00 81322.50 93129.31 107318.15
5175.0000 3659.5125 4190.8191 4829.3169
4000.0000 4000.0000 4000.0000 4000.0000
116175.00 80982.01 93320.13 108147.47
While your principle is back above 100k after 4 years, you've really lost ground accounting for inflation.
And what's more likely is that you'll get out of the market after that stinging second year loss of almost 20,000 dollars.
The bond market is many times the size of the stock market. People with a lot of money prefer risk free return. It is very stressful to be up or down $10,000 dollars on a single day if you think about it too much.
Yea, as I said 'roughly'.
Your more realistic estimate of the earnings from the bank money may balance the more pessimistic cost reductions however. A $65k system is going to have a ferocious payoff time.
OTH, electricity is up 300% since (roughly) 1985 (memory of some research I did on electricity inflation as part of this).
If electric is $2k a year now then it is likely to be $6k a year in 20 years.
Also, if you have a paid off solar system, it's one less bill to cover from that point on. I have pretty grave concerns about the maintenance costs tho.
No man.
I was there in the early 80's when this was all getting started and I'm certain that the title was selfchosen by the pirates themselves.
There is a risk that your solar roof could be *partially* taken out by a storm but it is unlikely it would be completely taken out unless your house was taken out.
.15% of solar cells would have been broken if all roofs had them). The rest of the roofs were undamaged.
During the last major windstorm in my area, 50 year old trees fell over and damaged maybe 3% of the surface area of 5% of the roofs in the neighborhood (so
There has been no other damage to roofs in the last 10 years.
Roofs are pretty tough. Solar shingles are pretty tough. It is a risk/insurance issue to consider but with insurance would probable amount to less than $100 per year.
I like the maintenance issues for that but you do need to consider the costs of a storage facility for that water and maintenance (fixing leaks, fixing generators that the water touches so is likely to break in under 20 years, etc.)
Good information.
Using more expensive batteries is going to extend the payoff period for your solar system.
If everyone starts using them, they are going to get more expensive short term.
Many people will fail to maintain them at the level you specify so that means they will fail or
they will have to hire someone to maintain them. Again- this raises the cost.
My basic point is: compare the money invested vs the money put into solar. when the numbers make sense (even if they mildly didn't make sense) I'd go solar. For now, they are not even close. They only make sense if you can get the government to give you thousands of dollars worth of other people's tax money.
I think you are overstating OO's weaknesses and Word's strengths just a little bit.
Word locks me into windows. I don't mind having a "throw away" windows box for gaming but I no longer trust windows at a basic level to protect me and my critical data.