Much of that heat is produced near the ceiling where it does no good. You have a higher heat gradient across your insulation but feel no warmer at people level.
Consumers had low stable prices for nearly 100 years. Deregulation was proposed as a way to lower prices for consumers. Instead of lowering prices, crooked brokers fleeced consumers for billions of dollars. My take is we could re-regulate the market back to where it was before and we'd have low stable prices for another 100 years.
Deregulation caused drastically higher prices and your solution is more deregulation?! The claim was that any deregulation would lead to lower prices. That claim has been disproved in 2 different states that used 2 different methods. When can we stop the madness?
Sure, nobody was getting rich off the old system but I liked having predictable energy costs that mostly followed inflation.
I think most consumers would prefer to be isolated from energy price fluctuations. Just look at California and Texas to see what a deregulated energy market combined with smart energy traders can come up with.
It would be a lot more work than people are accustomed to. You couldn't just put your clothes in the dryer and press start. You'd have to put in accepted price range, otherwise if the price spiked to $100/kwh you would spend a fortune on that load. That means sometimes your clothes would be wet hours and hours later.
That said, there is a tiny minority, myself included, that would really enjoy having real-time pricing. I would love having power generation and storage at my house, buying low and selling high, only using high-demand applications at rock bottom prices, the whole thing controlled by computer and PLC.
My rule is everybody gets one. I clean up the mess, tell them how to be smarter, and if it happens again they get put on the reimage program. Once they're on the reimage program anytime they bitch about anything, I tell them to boot from the CD, plug in the external drive, and follow the prompts.
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Spambot needs captcha. Spambot sends image to spammers porn/mp3/warez site. Human provides captcha to get their goodies. website provides captcha to spambot.
All 100% automated from the spammers point of view. Bots are still posting spam, at near zero cost to the spammer, with potentially massive throughput.
From a purely scientific point of view, saying that god exists, or saying god doesn't exist, are both wrong statements.
Same thing for the Tooth Fairy, or the FSM. Nobody is going around demanding that scientists adopt an agnostic stance towards these imaginary entities.
Hardly anybody is going out and buying multiple boxes for their personal use. Most of the cases of hoarding I've heard about (and done myself) are scavenging. I'll see a machine in the alley or on a pallet headed for the recycler and snag it. It's fun to have for experimenting with other OSs or to set up a file/email/web/app/db server, or to give to someone who needs a basic machine to check email and websurf, or to use to fix your "main" box, etc.
I must have set up dozens of friends with free computers over the years.
Someday you're going to wish you had an old P3 when your single PC is dead and you need to download drivers or troubleshoot.
It works for reptiles. There are many animals that don't produce Vitamin D on their own. I have to use UV bulbs on my turtles during the winter or they suffer from Vitamin D deficiency.
If it works on reptiles I think it'd work on people.
AC power is not safe. 411 people died from electrocutions in the US 2001 (US Consumer Product Safety)
Nothing is safe in life. There are no guarantees. Anyone can keel over at any time. I wish people would be less frantic about being safe. Anything that is safer than driving should be a no-brainer. We take that risk without blinking.
You are missing an important point. These people aren't criminals. They haven't even been charged with a crime. They are just someone who the cops have decided needs to be restrained. They might be innocent, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't like the idea of cops having lethal force they can use consequence-free.
Cops can be jerks, or they can be wrong, etc. Why are you so eager to give away your rights and trust law enforcement to use their power responsibly?
You'd be better off thinking about how to minimize risk from lightning strikes or fan-related injuries. Way more people are hurt every year by accidents than university gunman rampages. You should try to keep things in perspective. One or two high-publicity fatalities a month don't need a policy response.
Maybe we should ban cellphones while driving. That'll save thousands of lives every year.
That is all true. But if our health care system was so great, wouldn't you expect to see US life expectancy to be about the same as other industrialized countries? If lifestyle has more of an impact on life expectancy and quality of life than healthcare then we are spending our money foolishly.
Having a life expectancy gap of over a decade is simply embarrassing given our healthcare spending.
US fertility rate has just hit the highest since the early 70s. We're now just barely above replacement rate. Of course, if you count net immigration we are well above replacement rate.
For over 20 years the US had a negative population growth looking at fertility alone.
The bacteria produce cellulose and sugars from sunlight and the atmosphere. There is no input of cellulose or sugars from cropland or algae. Crops and algae are other ways to produce cellulose and sugars.
Accidental death and homicide don't even total 5% in the US. If you remove these 4.7% of deaths, life expectancy doesn't change relative to the rest of the industrialized world. If we only look at people who die of disease and age -- reflections of health care -- Americans are among the very shortest lived people in the industrialized world.
What?! I have personally had 2 insurance policies at the same time. My father has 3. Sometimes there are issues where the "primary" insurer doesn't want to cover some particular charge and the "secondary" and "tertiary" insurers feel the primary should cover it. They all squabble over it until an agreement is reached.
The United States currently has the best healthcare system in the world.
No it doesn't. Not even close. We have the most expensive system in the world, but by any measure of results you won't find us anywhere near the top 20. Not infant mortality, life expectancy, disease survival rates, nothing.
Of course you can stock up on health insurance. I have a cheap $5k deductible plan. If I found out I was genetically likely to develop an expensive chronic condition I would buy the most comprehensive plan I could find, in fact I would buy two plans from different companies to maximize my coverage. Then I would buy supplemental insurance to cover my copays, prescriptions, durable medical equipment, etc.
I don't want a fire department. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it? I don't want police. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it? I don't want a standing army. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it? I don't want schools. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
I don't want roads, clean water, clean air, FAA, FCC, or any of that other bullshit. Yet I am FORCED to pay for all of it.
There are lots of things that we as a society have decided are essential. I think that medical care is pretty important, and dealt with more efficiently by the government than the private sector. The US spends a lot for pretty poor results. Why not try something else? It can't be worse than the current elaborate fraud.
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Much of that heat is produced near the ceiling where it does no good. You have a higher heat gradient across your insulation but feel no warmer at people level.
Consumers had low stable prices for nearly 100 years. Deregulation was proposed as a way to lower prices for consumers. Instead of lowering prices, crooked brokers fleeced consumers for billions of dollars. My take is we could re-regulate the market back to where it was before and we'd have low stable prices for another 100 years.
Deregulation caused drastically higher prices and your solution is more deregulation?! The claim was that any deregulation would lead to lower prices. That claim has been disproved in 2 different states that used 2 different methods. When can we stop the madness?
Sure, nobody was getting rich off the old system but I liked having predictable energy costs that mostly followed inflation.
I think most consumers would prefer to be isolated from energy price fluctuations. Just look at California and Texas to see what a deregulated energy market combined with smart energy traders can come up with.
It would be a lot more work than people are accustomed to. You couldn't just put your clothes in the dryer and press start. You'd have to put in accepted price range, otherwise if the price spiked to $100/kwh you would spend a fortune on that load. That means sometimes your clothes would be wet hours and hours later.
That said, there is a tiny minority, myself included, that would really enjoy having real-time pricing. I would love having power generation and storage at my house, buying low and selling high, only using high-demand applications at rock bottom prices, the whole thing controlled by computer and PLC.
My rule is everybody gets one. I clean up the mess, tell them how to be smarter, and if it happens again they get put on the reimage program. Once they're on the reimage program anytime they bitch about anything, I tell them to boot from the CD, plug in the external drive, and follow the prompts.
60 hours!?
You should make an image of that machine. It'll save you 59.5 hours next time.
With your imagination it is fortunate you aren't aware of Vagina Dentata
I thought the problem was this:
Spambot needs captcha.
Spambot sends image to spammers porn/mp3/warez site.
Human provides captcha to get their goodies.
website provides captcha to spambot.
All 100% automated from the spammers point of view. Bots are still posting spam, at near zero cost to the spammer, with potentially massive throughput.
Same thing for the Tooth Fairy, or the FSM. Nobody is going around demanding that scientists adopt an agnostic stance towards these imaginary entities.
Hardly anybody is going out and buying multiple boxes for their personal use. Most of the cases of hoarding I've heard about (and done myself) are scavenging. I'll see a machine in the alley or on a pallet headed for the recycler and snag it. It's fun to have for experimenting with other OSs or to set up a file/email/web/app/db server, or to give to someone who needs a basic machine to check email and websurf, or to use to fix your "main" box, etc.
I must have set up dozens of friends with free computers over the years.
Someday you're going to wish you had an old P3 when your single PC is dead and you need to download drivers or troubleshoot.
It works for reptiles. There are many animals that don't produce Vitamin D on their own. I have to use UV bulbs on my turtles during the winter or they suffer from Vitamin D deficiency.
If it works on reptiles I think it'd work on people.
Whoa, slow down. There's a new Mexico?
About one in 10 US shipping department clerks won't get this reference.
AC power is not safe. 411 people died from electrocutions in the US 2001 (US Consumer Product Safety)
Nothing is safe in life. There are no guarantees. Anyone can keel over at any time. I wish people would be less frantic about being safe. Anything that is safer than driving should be a no-brainer. We take that risk without blinking.
You are missing an important point. These people aren't criminals. They haven't even been charged with a crime. They are just someone who the cops have decided needs to be restrained. They might be innocent, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't like the idea of cops having lethal force they can use consequence-free.
Cops can be jerks, or they can be wrong, etc. Why are you so eager to give away your rights and trust law enforcement to use their power responsibly?
You'd be better off thinking about how to minimize risk from lightning strikes or fan-related injuries. Way more people are hurt every year by accidents than university gunman rampages. You should try to keep things in perspective. One or two high-publicity fatalities a month don't need a policy response.
Maybe we should ban cellphones while driving. That'll save thousands of lives every year.
That is all true. But if our health care system was so great, wouldn't you expect to see US life expectancy to be about the same as other industrialized countries? If lifestyle has more of an impact on life expectancy and quality of life than healthcare then we are spending our money foolishly.
Having a life expectancy gap of over a decade is simply embarrassing given our healthcare spending.
US fertility rate has just hit the highest since the early 70s. We're now just barely above replacement rate. Of course, if you count net immigration we are well above replacement rate.
For over 20 years the US had a negative population growth looking at fertility alone.
That's why I love fuel cells. You get the benefit of a non-closed system without all the horrible moving parts and inefficiency of an ICE.
The bacteria produce cellulose and sugars from sunlight and the atmosphere. There is no input of cellulose or sugars from cropland or algae. Crops and algae are other ways to produce cellulose and sugars.
Accidental death and homicide don't even total 5% in the US. If you remove these 4.7% of deaths, life expectancy doesn't change relative to the rest of the industrialized world. If we only look at people who die of disease and age -- reflections of health care -- Americans are among the very shortest lived people in the industrialized world.
You can only die once. You can stay sick for decades.
What?! I have personally had 2 insurance policies at the same time. My father has 3. Sometimes there are issues where the "primary" insurer doesn't want to cover some particular charge and the "secondary" and "tertiary" insurers feel the primary should cover it. They all squabble over it until an agreement is reached.
Of course you can stock up on health insurance. I have a cheap $5k deductible plan. If I found out I was genetically likely to develop an expensive chronic condition I would buy the most comprehensive plan I could find, in fact I would buy two plans from different companies to maximize my coverage. Then I would buy supplemental insurance to cover my copays, prescriptions, durable medical equipment, etc.
I don't want a fire department. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
I don't want police. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
I don't want a standing army. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
I don't want schools. Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
I don't want roads, clean water, clean air, FAA, FCC, or any of that other bullshit. Yet I am FORCED to pay for all of it.
There are lots of things that we as a society have decided are essential. I think that medical care is pretty important, and dealt with more efficiently by the government than the private sector. The US spends a lot for pretty poor results. Why not try something else? It can't be worse than the current elaborate fraud.