Friday, April 27, 2007 NEWTON -- With a critical federal review of the Cape Wind project just months away, supporters of the plan to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound are growing increasingly confident that the long-delayed project will finally win approval.
"I think this is the final lap," said Barbara Hill, executive director of Clean Power Now, a nonprofit group that supports the project. "We've been in a marathon and this is the final lap."
Hill's comments came after a public hearing at a Newton hotel last night on offshore alternative energy projects.
I'm in the same situation. Just bought a townhouse with a fairly restrictive Homeowner's Association. How do I deal with the fact I can't get renewable energy (even though I get nuclear power from ComEd, I still like to support the cause)?
Renewable Energy Certificates (the consumer version). I take my power consumption on a monthly basis, and then by RECs equal to it. True, it's not like that power is getting to my house. But my effort, along with others like me, help make renewable more financially viable. And you better believe that's the only reason it hasn't taken off like wildfire yet. Make something so that it can actually turn a buck, and people will build it.
Although you cannot deduct the value of your time or services, you can deduct the expenses you incur while donating your services to a qualified organization. If the expenses are for travel, which may include transportation and meals and lodging while away from home, they may be deducted only if there is no significant element of personal pleasure, recreation, or vacation in the travel. Actual costs of gas and oil can be deducted, or you can choose to take 14 cents per mile for using your own car.
Then perhaps they shouldn't take the best. Honestly, sometimes the best isn't the solution. Also, don't take just "stable" couples. Take couples that have been stable over X number of years.
Psychological screening is important, but no silver bullet. Hopefully, it's not too soon, but I'll compare it to gun background checks. Just because the background check comes through clean doesn't mean the person isn't about to go postal somewhere.
Only when you remember to make a snapshot of your whole directory. An hourly cron-job would do, maybe. There is always the possibility you delete a file before a snapshot is made.
You could always replace rm with a script to perform a snapshot before the rm actually takes place. Problem solved.
In the big company that I work in this couldn't happen: we have good firewalls, machines are locked down in terms of downloads, machines are regularly tested/audited and we have a great IT department.
Bullshit. If a box is on a network, the possibility of an exploit exists. The only secure desktop/server is the one buried in concrete 6 feet underground.
Not to burst your bubble, but it's hugely more efficient over the wire vs. a truck. Some fossil fuels are going to be burned, yes, but not as much as with a physical product.
Get off your high horse. You assume convenience and laziness are tied together. A falacy if I've ever heard one. Besides, you missed an obvious benefit. Mechanical parts break due to wear and tear (plugging the charge into your phone/PDA/whatever). If you just place the phone on the pad to charge it, that's one less area to worry about mechanical failure.
Most power companies actually *subsidize* energy conservation. Being a monopoly in most places, they usually get to make a fixed margin (and that margin is set by the citizen's utility board). It's cheaper then building another power plant or having to beef up transmission infrastructure.
Don't believe me? Google for it yourself: "energy company subsidize conservation"
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to make $20 million in loans available to companies that use less than 200 kilowatt hours per month. The loans would eventually be repaid through the businesses' monthly electric bills.
I'm a firm believer that Trent has had his shit together for quite some time. I have all of the albums (although Year Zero is the only one I purchased from iTunes, the rest are CDs). I highly suggest you go see him live. I saw him at Summerfest in Milwaukee last year, and it was a god damn amazing show (with Peaches opening for him, which made it a whole lot more interesting).
You say it's going back 30 years. I say it's a cycle. There is no point for the majority of users that just email and use office apps to have a full blown desktop. And if your business is critical, you have redundant connectivity (which isn't expensive, perhaps $100-150/month, which is easily justifiable for business users). For those who can't afford two connections at home, this will be filled in by cheaper net alternatives (muni wifi) and extensions/add-ons that will let you run a light version of the mail/office app locally when the connection isn't there.
That doesn't even take into account that Google manages the software development, the hardware costs, the operating costs, etc. All in all, a steal. Slashdot needs to be renamed "Sensationalized News For Nerds. Stuff Nerds Whine About".
Alright, so I stand corrected on my numbers regarding tax burdens. However I must say that the minimum cost of living for those in the lowest 90th percentile is a far greater percentage of their income than it is for the wealthy in the top 10%. That the bottom 90% should be paying less, they need the money to survive.
As for the higher tax rate on the wealthy... Sure it must be awful to have to pay such high taxes when your wealth is being generated in part by the infrastructure you're paying taxes for. (Highways, roads, police, etc...)
Let's touch on both of these statements, shall we?
1) If the top 10% are already shouldering a high tax burden, why should they shoulder an even higher burden? Because they're in the top 10%? It sounds like the problem is that cost of living is too high (inflation anyone?), not that the wealthy make too much.
2) The wealthy-owe-us arguement. Are you saying that wealthy people use more highways, police, fire services, etc. then poor people? I find that hard to believe. I can't find the article at the moment, but just recently it was determined that for every $1 spent on taxes by someone "wealthy", they used $0.34 of tax-provided services. Contrast that with those much lower on the income scale (around the poverty line) who, for every $1 spent on taxes, receive $14-$15 in tax-provided services.
The solution is simple. Move from an income tax to a consumption tax. The more you use the more taxes you pay.
Not to be a backseat CEO, but their marketing budget is obscene. I understand the need to get new customers and offset churn, but my god, don't blow all the cash doing it.
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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Unless the rest of traffic is also traveling at that speed (i.e. certain parts of Chicago and LA highways at night). The problem with the speed limit is that it's been fixed since the 70's (55mph in a whole heap of places) while vehicles have continued to improve (safety and handling-wise).
Agreed. More clarification is definitely needed. I think by "international" they mean "what some people would consider obscene". International to some countries can mean USD 0.30/minute, while if you're on a cruise ship with a GSM tower or you're using Imarsat you can be paying between USD 5.00-7.00 per minute.
Not necessarily. I have T-Mobile in the US, and when I visited Ireland for a week and a half 2 years ago I made several hundred calls back to the US. My phone bill was roughly $400 ($160 for normal 5000 minutes service package, $240 for international calls). Since most of the calls were for work, my employer picked up the tab. International rates don't stop anyone from making calls except of the utmost frugal of us (or those who don't need to make calls for work).
If my laptop can join your home network without any intervention (unsecured, broadcasted SSID, and DHCP handing out an IP without any MAC address restriction), your access point granted me access. To charge someone with a crime in the above example is entrapment. Bitch to Linksys that it comes configured allow all by default. Bitch to ignorant consumers who won't change their settings when they receive their product. Don't bitch at someone who was using what was advertised over the air via RF as being available for use.
What happens when Apple decides to be that broker? They've already positioned themselves to be the next media goliath, and they're going to continue to get bigger (just like Google). And somehow I don't think Mr. Jobs is going to have a problem putting an investment up to do the same as SoundExchange, since at this point it would just be people and code (the rest is already built out a la iTunes).
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Cape Wind backers enter 'final lap'
Friday, April 27, 2007NEWTON -- With a critical federal review of the Cape Wind project just months away, supporters of the plan to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound are growing increasingly confident that the long-delayed project will finally win approval.
"I think this is the final lap," said Barbara Hill, executive director of Clean Power Now, a nonprofit group that supports the project. "We've been in a marathon and this is the final lap."
Hill's comments came after a public hearing at a Newton hotel last night on offshore alternative energy projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tags
Renewable Energy Certificates (the consumer version). I take my power consumption on a monthly basis, and then by RECs equal to it. True, it's not like that power is getting to my house. But my effort, along with others like me, help make renewable more financially viable. And you better believe that's the only reason it hasn't taken off like wildfire yet. Make something so that it can actually turn a buck, and people will build it.
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc506.html
Although you cannot deduct the value of your time or services, you can deduct the expenses you incur while donating your services to a qualified organization. If the expenses are for travel, which may include transportation and meals and lodging while away from home, they may be deducted only if there is no significant element of personal pleasure, recreation, or vacation in the travel. Actual costs of gas and oil can be deducted, or you can choose to take 14 cents per mile for using your own car.
...but that makes it harder to recruit the best.Then perhaps they shouldn't take the best. Honestly, sometimes the best isn't the solution. Also, don't take just "stable" couples. Take couples that have been stable over X number of years.
Psychological screening is important, but no silver bullet. Hopefully, it's not too soon, but I'll compare it to gun background checks. Just because the background check comes through clean doesn't mean the person isn't about to go postal somewhere.
You could always replace rm with a script to perform a snapshot before the rm actually takes place. Problem solved.
That gets about as close to Do No Evil as you can get.
Bullshit. If a box is on a network, the possibility of an exploit exists. The only secure desktop/server is the one buried in concrete 6 feet underground.
Not to burst your bubble, but it's hugely more efficient over the wire vs. a truck. Some fossil fuels are going to be burned, yes, but not as much as with a physical product.
Get off your high horse. You assume convenience and laziness are tied together. A falacy if I've ever heard one. Besides, you missed an obvious benefit. Mechanical parts break due to wear and tear (plugging the charge into your phone/PDA/whatever). If you just place the phone on the pad to charge it, that's one less area to worry about mechanical failure.
Don't believe me? Google for it yourself: "energy company subsidize conservation"
Example: http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/200 5/08/22/smallb4.html
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to make $20 million in loans available to companies that use less than 200 kilowatt hours per month. The loans would eventually be repaid through the businesses' monthly electric bills.Sometimes, I pine for Europe (or at least the common sense it exhibits)
Google for "recycle CFL".
I'm a firm believer that Trent has had his shit together for quite some time. I have all of the albums (although Year Zero is the only one I purchased from iTunes, the rest are CDs). I highly suggest you go see him live. I saw him at Summerfest in Milwaukee last year, and it was a god damn amazing show (with Peaches opening for him, which made it a whole lot more interesting).
You say it's going back 30 years. I say it's a cycle. There is no point for the majority of users that just email and use office apps to have a full blown desktop. And if your business is critical, you have redundant connectivity (which isn't expensive, perhaps $100-150/month, which is easily justifiable for business users). For those who can't afford two connections at home, this will be filled in by cheaper net alternatives (muni wifi) and extensions/add-ons that will let you run a light version of the mail/office app locally when the connection isn't there.
That doesn't even take into account that Google manages the software development, the hardware costs, the operating costs, etc. All in all, a steal. Slashdot needs to be renamed "Sensationalized News For Nerds. Stuff Nerds Whine About".
As for the higher tax rate on the wealthy... Sure it must be awful to have to pay such high taxes when your wealth is being generated in part by the infrastructure you're paying taxes for. (Highways, roads, police, etc...)
Let's touch on both of these statements, shall we?1) If the top 10% are already shouldering a high tax burden, why should they shoulder an even higher burden? Because they're in the top 10%? It sounds like the problem is that cost of living is too high (inflation anyone?), not that the wealthy make too much.
2) The wealthy-owe-us arguement. Are you saying that wealthy people use more highways, police, fire services, etc. then poor people? I find that hard to believe. I can't find the article at the moment, but just recently it was determined that for every $1 spent on taxes by someone "wealthy", they used $0.34 of tax-provided services. Contrast that with those much lower on the income scale (around the poverty line) who, for every $1 spent on taxes, receive $14-$15 in tax-provided services.
The solution is simple. Move from an income tax to a consumption tax. The more you use the more taxes you pay.
Not to be a backseat CEO, but their marketing budget is obscene. I understand the need to get new customers and offset churn, but my god, don't blow all the cash doing it.
Unless the rest of traffic is also traveling at that speed (i.e. certain parts of Chicago and LA highways at night). The problem with the speed limit is that it's been fixed since the 70's (55mph in a whole heap of places) while vehicles have continued to improve (safety and handling-wise).
Thank you!
Were you on a specific diet? What foods did you a) eat and b) not eat. Just a health-aware geek trying to get in shape.
Agreed. More clarification is definitely needed. I think by "international" they mean "what some people would consider obscene". International to some countries can mean USD 0.30/minute, while if you're on a cruise ship with a GSM tower or you're using Imarsat you can be paying between USD 5.00-7.00 per minute.
Not necessarily. I have T-Mobile in the US, and when I visited Ireland for a week and a half 2 years ago I made several hundred calls back to the US. My phone bill was roughly $400 ($160 for normal 5000 minutes service package, $240 for international calls). Since most of the calls were for work, my employer picked up the tab. International rates don't stop anyone from making calls except of the utmost frugal of us (or those who don't need to make calls for work).
If my laptop can join your home network without any intervention (unsecured, broadcasted SSID, and DHCP handing out an IP without any MAC address restriction), your access point granted me access. To charge someone with a crime in the above example is entrapment. Bitch to Linksys that it comes configured allow all by default. Bitch to ignorant consumers who won't change their settings when they receive their product. Don't bitch at someone who was using what was advertised over the air via RF as being available for use.
You hear me Mr. Jobs? Keep up the good work.