Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident).
Should have read:
Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident), wind is pretty inexpensive.
Only if you externalize the costs of gas, coal, and nuclear. Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident). I'm not against nuclear; I'm actually a big proponent of it for base load. I'm a huge fan of wind though because once the equipment is built and installed, your costs are pretty low (just debt payments/service on the turbines and maintenance on said turbines).
You're going to need an extremely powerful explosion to get enough pressure to collapse the wellhead. I'm not sure if the amount of conventional explosives required would be practical, where as your typical 2-50kton nuclear warhead is fairly compact.
My Nexus One does both, although we wrote the app that allows for talking to our power/network API for rebooting equipment and changing VLANs via the phone when you're in the datacenter.
THIS! I wanted an iPhone, but wouldn't touch AT&T so I got a Nexus One on T-Mobile (~17Mbps 3G uncongested network = Awesome). Now I'd like to get a 3G iPad, but again, only on AT&T (yes, yes, I know it's not locked and I can put a T-Mobile SIM in it, but I won't get 3G speeds). Instead, I'll wait for an Android tablet from Google.
To be fair, the problem with social security is that it was enacted when most people died before retirement age (retirement being 65; most died at 63) and we now live much longer. The solution is to push the retirement age for social security higher (it should be tied to estimated life expectancy statistics) and encourage (from a tax perspective) people to save more during their lives, while being comfortable as a nation/world with slower growth due to lower levels of consumption. But we know that ain't gonna happen, and it's going to end up as a clusterfuck of epic proportions. There is going to be a huge retired population who is going to want to lean on younger generations to provide for them, and those younger folks (myself included) are not going to want to slave away for the older generations. Begun, the generation wars have.
Best of luck to them. I suggest they continue to work if they're able to (Retirement is an abboration in history; only one generation has been able to do it). I myself plan on working until the end.
Right, so now not only is the younger generation coughing up to support their older generation, if we don't provide what they want AARP is going to come wielding pitchforks on their golf carts? I already pay $300-400/month in FICA. Keep taking more, and at some point it just becomes impractical for me to work to pay for others (and being young, I'm mobile and can move to another country).
The kitty has already been dipped into, and exhausted. It's full of IOUs. FICA payroll deductions are going to be insufficient to support the growing retirement base, and the US gov is going to need to dip into the general fund to provide even 70-80% of current benefit levels.
And *you're* qualified to determine what's a massive waste of money? *I* think Social Security and other entitlements are a waste of money, but that's because I'm 27 and not going to see a penny of it. So, frankly, leave it up to experts to decide if it's a waste. Mr. Gates seems to have a fine handle on the situation.
Ground-based DGPS isn't supported on most GPS receivers without and additional receiver to pull in the differential signal. WAAS is built into almost all aviation GPS receivers.
*MORBOR*: That is not how orbital mechanics works!
You want to hit the satellite away from the direction it's orbiting in, so that it loses enough orbital velocity to descend into the top-most part of the atmosphere where drag will slow it down even further and pull it down.
It's *very* simple to spoof an RFID chip, as all it presents is a numeric ID, although there's a sweet RFID chip out there with 255 bytes of storage and cryptographic functionality (some dude had it implanted in his hand to handle is front door and starting his car; google is your friend) that allows for a rotating key.
I use an SSD as my system disk, and a RAID10 array of 2TB disks for storage. I image the SSD to the RAID10 array once a week (Ghost, with a boot CD that automates the process). Seems to work so far.
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Compared to the constant stream of Colbert Report fans screwing with Wikipedia?
Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident).
Should have read:
Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident), wind is pretty inexpensive.
Only if you externalize the costs of gas, coal, and nuclear. Once you slap a carbon tax on gas and coal for it's environmental effects (you're aware you burn uranium when you burn coal, correct?), and take into account the capital costs for a $1-3 billion dollar nuclear plant (you know the US federal gov needs to guarantee nuclear plant loans for anyone to even consider lending for it? they also provide immunity against liability in the event of an accident). I'm not against nuclear; I'm actually a big proponent of it for base load. I'm a huge fan of wind though because once the equipment is built and installed, your costs are pretty low (just debt payments/service on the turbines and maintenance on said turbines).
http://www.wndu.com/indiana/headlines/42712897.html
Ah, yes, I left a zero off that number. My bad. I shall now precede to bang my head against the keyboard until bloody.
Don't bother; we can outsource that to India cheaper as well.
Cloud hosting never works. It's always a failure, regardless of who is using, and where it's being used.
Tell that to Amazon. They seem to be doing just fine with it.
What's the cost of having your entire physical infrastructure under someone else's control?
You're going to need an extremely powerful explosion to get enough pressure to collapse the wellhead. I'm not sure if the amount of conventional explosives required would be practical, where as your typical 2-50kton nuclear warhead is fairly compact.
My Nexus One does both, although we wrote the app that allows for talking to our power/network API for rebooting equipment and changing VLANs via the phone when you're in the datacenter.
THIS! I wanted an iPhone, but wouldn't touch AT&T so I got a Nexus One on T-Mobile (~17Mbps 3G uncongested network = Awesome). Now I'd like to get a 3G iPad, but again, only on AT&T (yes, yes, I know it's not locked and I can put a T-Mobile SIM in it, but I won't get 3G speeds). Instead, I'll wait for an Android tablet from Google.
To be fair, the problem with social security is that it was enacted when most people died before retirement age (retirement being 65; most died at 63) and we now live much longer. The solution is to push the retirement age for social security higher (it should be tied to estimated life expectancy statistics) and encourage (from a tax perspective) people to save more during their lives, while being comfortable as a nation/world with slower growth due to lower levels of consumption. But we know that ain't gonna happen, and it's going to end up as a clusterfuck of epic proportions. There is going to be a huge retired population who is going to want to lean on younger generations to provide for them, and those younger folks (myself included) are not going to want to slave away for the older generations. Begun, the generation wars have.
Best of luck to them. I suggest they continue to work if they're able to (Retirement is an abboration in history; only one generation has been able to do it). I myself plan on working until the end.
Right, so now not only is the younger generation coughing up to support their older generation, if we don't provide what they want AARP is going to come wielding pitchforks on their golf carts? I already pay $300-400/month in FICA. Keep taking more, and at some point it just becomes impractical for me to work to pay for others (and being young, I'm mobile and can move to another country).
http://www.iousathemovie.com/
And *you're* qualified to determine what's a massive waste of money? *I* think Social Security and other entitlements are a waste of money, but that's because I'm 27 and not going to see a penny of it. So, frankly, leave it up to experts to decide if it's a waste. Mr. Gates seems to have a fine handle on the situation.
New Futurama episodes come back June 24th.
Ground-based DGPS isn't supported on most GPS receivers without and additional receiver to pull in the differential signal. WAAS is built into almost all aviation GPS receivers.
Fuck. That's what I get for typing out a response too fast =)
But that data is typically routed over MPLS networks, which can (and often are) be separated from public IP networks similar to how VLANS are used.
You want to hit the satellite away from the direction it's orbiting in, so that it loses enough orbital velocity to descend into the top-most part of the atmosphere where drag will slow it down even further and pull it down.
As someone who is about to go through pararescue apprentice training, I approve of your comment =)
It's *very* simple to spoof an RFID chip, as all it presents is a numeric ID, although there's a sweet RFID chip out there with 255 bytes of storage and cryptographic functionality (some dude had it implanted in his hand to handle is front door and starting his car; google is your friend) that allows for a rotating key.
The cobbler's children have no shoes.
I use an SSD as my system disk, and a RAID10 array of 2TB disks for storage. I image the SSD to the RAID10 array once a week (Ghost, with a boot CD that automates the process). Seems to work so far.