Quite a bit of colleges are located in rural settings. As an example, take my native Illinois:
Northern Illinois University - Dekalb, IL
Illinois State University - Bloomington/Normal, IL
University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
NIU has a fairly advanced business/legal program, ISU has a huge teaching program, U of I has a great engineering program, and Millikin is quite the arts school. All of these schools are located in what I would consider rural communities (although Bloomington is fairly big, at almost 75k people, it's still MUCH smaller than Chicago and some of it's suburbs). YMMV.
You should be much less worried about the NG that is migrating into the aquifers, and more worried about the extremely toxic/carcinogenic cocktail of chemicals extraction companies are using to hydraulically fracture NG wells.
You're correct (as I glance at my LHC run schedule PDF that I probably shouldn't provide a link to). It appears the LHC is doing ion beam setup in a week or so (for two weeks), and then begins ion physics runs starting Nov 1st for 4 weeks. Still, lots of science to do before the upgrade.
I believe the existence and proliferation of the Cyanogen modified OS negates that viewpoint. Sure, obstacles exist, but I don't believe there is an Android phone out there that his modified OS doesn't run on.
Reality is somewhere between being idealistic and pragmatic. Carriers and Manufacturers may try to kill Android's advantages, but that's the beauty of Android. You can simply pick a different carrier or manufacturer. What do you do if you don't like who makes or handles the connectivity of your iPhone?
Not going to happen. If you're either a channel or content provider, you're still going to want to get paid for that content being delivered. Multicast doesn't have that sort of authentication built into the protocol, unless you're able to multicast an encrypted stream, and use another protocol to handle a key exchange (after the video stream access is purchased or authorized because of a monthly subscription a la Netflix).
It would work for things like NASA TV that are free, and I even think NASA already has internal multicast streams for people on-net at NASA facilities. But if you want to get paid for your content, you're not going to use public multicast.
It's happening on the backend, and it's god damn huge. It's just hidden behind IPTV "cable boxes". If you're watching television on Comcast's cable plant, you're using multicast.
Why robotic cars would seriously reduce that number is quite involved but it's possibe
Not really. It's simple. Not only would their driving style be more efficient (smooth flow, no start stop) but their routes would be more efficient as well when centrally controlled.
I rode my motorcycle from Illinois to Connecticut once with the side effect of having to drive through New Jersey. I curse the Yamaha engineer who decided to build a gas tank not built big enough to get from one side of NJ to the other without having to fillup. If you get to the pump fast enough, you can pump the gas without the attendant throwing a fit.
It's not about getting over ourselves. I'm an extremely efficient person (engineer in general), and so my time is extremely valuable to me. Am I going to ride public transportation and waste hours of my day connecting between different public transportation methods to get done what I need done? Or am I going to pay for a car loan, gas, and insurance to get between destinations as quickly as possible? Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Once it's gone, you've lost it.
I am in no way affiliated with the above online store. They were just the second link when I googled "wild desert honey". My bottle is already on the way.
Completely agree. If only people understood monetary policy, they'd have a much firmer grasp on our financial system./not an economist//in another life, I would've been
Mr Wilson now realises that his boom-year sales were a by-product of the state’s housing bubble. Dealers reckon that before the crisis a third of new cars in California were bought with home-equity loans. “Now there’s no home equity,” says Mr Wilson, “there’s no down-payment for cars.” He foresees no sales growth for another two to three years. “The country is not optimistic. If you’re not optimistic you don’t buy a new house or new car.”
He’s right: Americans are not optimistic. Official statistics say that the economy has been growing for nearly 15 months, but so sluggishly that most people seem to think it is still in recession. For a few months it looked as if the economy might even shrink again, as growth slowed to a mere 1.6% (at an annualised rate) in the second quarter, job creation almost stopped and home sales plunged.
As long as a currency isn't tied to gold or some other physical representation to put limits on the system, yes, you can indeed have all sorts of debts without any sorts of savings (while incurring inflation). Example: The Federal Reserve needed to buy up over 1 trillion dollars worth of toxic assets. Lucky for them, they have a checking account with no limit to buy said assets.
You'd be right 10-15 years ago, before most of the banking industry was deregulated. Most investments now are coming from pension/non-individual retirements funds, hedge funds, or foreign sovereign funds. Hell, bond yields are at some of the lowest rates they've ever been. There is plenty of cash in the system, just look at the rate on US Treasuries.
Some mortgages are recourse and some are not. Even if they are recourse, lenders aren't going to pursue someone who has no funds as they can always go atomic and declare bankruptcy. We don't much believe in a debtor's prison in the US.
Problem: Consumer demand for around 15-20% of our (US) economic output goods/services has been destroyed by both the stock (2001) market and real estate (2007-current) market collapse. This demand was of course artificial, propped up by "wealth" that didn't really exist (no, your house wasn't worth $30K more six months after you bought it).
So, the question is, how do you light a fire under the economic engine of consuming when most households are loaded down with mortgage, student loan, and unsecured/secured debt? Easily. You have the Federal Reserve buy out the underwater portion of debt.
Most, if not all of you, will say "That's not fair! I spent wisely and saved accordingly!" Good for you. You don't drive the economy. Those who consume do. So, to get those people consuming again, you need to get rid of this debt hanging out there. It's going to go away at some point anyway (research shows that if you're more than $10K underwater on your mortgage, you're 8-10 times more likely to walk away from the mortgage than someone who isn't underwater). The faster we eliminate that "zombie" debt, the more disposable income will be freed up for consuming goods, and the economy will start rolling again.
And please, don't say "You can't just make money out of thin air!" That's exactly what the Federal Reserve does. Inflation will be kept in check because we're already suffering from deflation. If the excess capacity doesn't get eaten up, the US is going to end up with the same problems Japan had. Once that excess capacity is eaten up, the Fed can raise interest rates to put the brakes on additional expansion.
Feel free to poke holes in my logic. A crowdsourced solution is still a solution.
Which I always thought somewhat hilarious. If you can afford a fighter aircraft (Larry Ellison?), you can afford to have the ordinance rails removed prior to inspection and reinstalled whenever you'd like. Unless the FAA or DoD is doing random spot inspections.
Which would defeat the purpose of ADS-B, as it's a replacement for radar. You want other aircraft in the area to know where you are, and hence you really don't want to restrict what is receiving that signal (even if you limit it to just aircraft, someone could always take an ADS-B decoder from their aircraft and spit the signal out over IP).
It doesn't change my argument that the B-52 is an outdated weapons platform. Even if you don't use a UAV, you can use a modern platform for delivering a strike (preferably something agile and supersonic). Pilots, in most if not all cases, are becoming obsolete in the military.
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Quite a bit of colleges are located in rural settings. As an example, take my native Illinois:
Northern Illinois University - Dekalb, IL
Illinois State University - Bloomington/Normal, IL
University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
NIU has a fairly advanced business/legal program, ISU has a huge teaching program, U of I has a great engineering program, and Millikin is quite the arts school. All of these schools are located in what I would consider rural communities (although Bloomington is fairly big, at almost 75k people, it's still MUCH smaller than Chicago and some of it's suburbs). YMMV.
You should be much less worried about the NG that is migrating into the aquifers, and more worried about the extremely toxic/carcinogenic cocktail of chemicals extraction companies are using to hydraulically fracture NG wells.
Last I heard from him, it was a flash controller bug that needed to be worked around, no more, no less.
You're correct (as I glance at my LHC run schedule PDF that I probably shouldn't provide a link to). It appears the LHC is doing ion beam setup in a week or so (for two weeks), and then begins ion physics runs starting Nov 1st for 4 weeks. Still, lots of science to do before the upgrade.
I believe the existence and proliferation of the Cyanogen modified OS negates that viewpoint. Sure, obstacles exist, but I don't believe there is an Android phone out there that his modified OS doesn't run on.
*You* may think Android is a failed experiment, although I'd argue that 250K Android activations a day is a success:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/04/google-approaching-quarter-million-android-activationsday/
Reality is somewhere between being idealistic and pragmatic. Carriers and Manufacturers may try to kill Android's advantages, but that's the beauty of Android. You can simply pick a different carrier or manufacturer. What do you do if you don't like who makes or handles the connectivity of your iPhone?
Not going to happen. If you're either a channel or content provider, you're still going to want to get paid for that content being delivered. Multicast doesn't have that sort of authentication built into the protocol, unless you're able to multicast an encrypted stream, and use another protocol to handle a key exchange (after the video stream access is purchased or authorized because of a monthly subscription a la Netflix).
It would work for things like NASA TV that are free, and I even think NASA already has internal multicast streams for people on-net at NASA facilities. But if you want to get paid for your content, you're not going to use public multicast.
It's happening on the backend, and it's god damn huge. It's just hidden behind IPTV "cable boxes". If you're watching television on Comcast's cable plant, you're using multicast.
IP Multicast in Cable Networks
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk828/technologies_case_study0900aecd802e2ce2.html
Correction: High Frequency Trading, not insider stock market trading. Just as nefarious, but with a prettier name.
Why robotic cars would seriously reduce that number is quite involved but it's possibe
Not really. It's simple. Not only would their driving style be more efficient (smooth flow, no start stop) but their routes would be more efficient as well when centrally controlled.
I rode my motorcycle from Illinois to Connecticut once with the side effect of having to drive through New Jersey. I curse the Yamaha engineer who decided to build a gas tank not built big enough to get from one side of NJ to the other without having to fillup. If you get to the pump fast enough, you can pump the gas without the attendant throwing a fit.
It's not about getting over ourselves. I'm an extremely efficient person (engineer in general), and so my time is extremely valuable to me. Am I going to ride public transportation and waste hours of my day connecting between different public transportation methods to get done what I need done? Or am I going to pay for a car loan, gas, and insurance to get between destinations as quickly as possible? Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Once it's gone, you've lost it.
Your post made me go "MMmmmm wild desert honey". Began googling, I did. Found a place that sells it cheap:
http://stores.homestead.com/hstrial-DLucas8/-strse-202/Health-Foods,Arizona,Raw,Desert,Honey,unfiltered/Detail.bok
I am in no way affiliated with the above online store. They were just the second link when I googled "wild desert honey". My bottle is already on the way.
Completely agree. If only people understood monetary policy, they'd have a much firmer grasp on our financial system. /not an economist //in another life, I would've been
Get off your high horse. Even the farking Economist agrees with me:
"America looks likely to avoid a second recession. But with households still overburdened by debt, years of slow growth lie ahead"
http://www4.economist.com/node/17041738
Mr Wilson now realises that his boom-year sales were a by-product of the state’s housing bubble. Dealers reckon that before the crisis a third of new cars in California were bought with home-equity loans. “Now there’s no home equity,” says Mr Wilson, “there’s no down-payment for cars.” He foresees no sales growth for another two to three years. “The country is not optimistic. If you’re not optimistic you don’t buy a new house or new car.”
He’s right: Americans are not optimistic. Official statistics say that the economy has been growing for nearly 15 months, but so sluggishly that most people seem to think it is still in recession. For a few months it looked as if the economy might even shrink again, as growth slowed to a mere 1.6% (at an annualised rate) in the second quarter, job creation almost stopped and home sales plunged.
As long as a currency isn't tied to gold or some other physical representation to put limits on the system, yes, you can indeed have all sorts of debts without any sorts of savings (while incurring inflation). Example: The Federal Reserve needed to buy up over 1 trillion dollars worth of toxic assets. Lucky for them, they have a checking account with no limit to buy said assets.
You'd be right 10-15 years ago, before most of the banking industry was deregulated. Most investments now are coming from pension/non-individual retirements funds, hedge funds, or foreign sovereign funds. Hell, bond yields are at some of the lowest rates they've ever been. There is plenty of cash in the system, just look at the rate on US Treasuries.
Some mortgages are recourse and some are not. Even if they are recourse, lenders aren't going to pursue someone who has no funds as they can always go atomic and declare bankruptcy. We don't much believe in a debtor's prison in the US.
If it makes you feel any better he is probably in a higher overall tax bracket than you...
At some of the lowest tax rates in US history. Feel better? I'm sure some folks are looking for pitch forks.
Problem: Consumer demand for around 15-20% of our (US) economic output goods/services has been destroyed by both the stock (2001) market and real estate (2007-current) market collapse. This demand was of course artificial, propped up by "wealth" that didn't really exist (no, your house wasn't worth $30K more six months after you bought it).
So, the question is, how do you light a fire under the economic engine of consuming when most households are loaded down with mortgage, student loan, and unsecured/secured debt? Easily. You have the Federal Reserve buy out the underwater portion of debt.
Most, if not all of you, will say "That's not fair! I spent wisely and saved accordingly!" Good for you. You don't drive the economy. Those who consume do. So, to get those people consuming again, you need to get rid of this debt hanging out there. It's going to go away at some point anyway (research shows that if you're more than $10K underwater on your mortgage, you're 8-10 times more likely to walk away from the mortgage than someone who isn't underwater). The faster we eliminate that "zombie" debt, the more disposable income will be freed up for consuming goods, and the economy will start rolling again.
And please, don't say "You can't just make money out of thin air!" That's exactly what the Federal Reserve does. Inflation will be kept in check because we're already suffering from deflation. If the excess capacity doesn't get eaten up, the US is going to end up with the same problems Japan had. Once that excess capacity is eaten up, the Fed can raise interest rates to put the brakes on additional expansion.
Feel free to poke holes in my logic. A crowdsourced solution is still a solution.
At least being a farmer, you know you're going to be dealing with shit up front. IT? Yea, you learn the hard way.
Mine was dead on, with the blue dot indicator actually on top of my townhouse (out of 5). Clearly, YMMV.
Which I always thought somewhat hilarious. If you can afford a fighter aircraft (Larry Ellison?), you can afford to have the ordinance rails removed prior to inspection and reinstalled whenever you'd like. Unless the FAA or DoD is doing random spot inspections.
Which would defeat the purpose of ADS-B, as it's a replacement for radar. You want other aircraft in the area to know where you are, and hence you really don't want to restrict what is receiving that signal (even if you limit it to just aircraft, someone could always take an ADS-B decoder from their aircraft and spit the signal out over IP).
It doesn't change my argument that the B-52 is an outdated weapons platform. Even if you don't use a UAV, you can use a modern platform for delivering a strike (preferably something agile and supersonic). Pilots, in most if not all cases, are becoming obsolete in the military.