There is no difference. Both are owned by their corporate masters. Clinton was the best Republican president ever. Eisenhower was the best Democratic president ever. (And the last real one - don't say he didn't warn you.) If you want your country back, you're going to have to kill some plutocrats.
If you're going to use LOX anyway you might as well go to chilled propane at the same temperature as the LOX. Chilled, it has the same density as kerosene, less tendency to gunk up the pipes when hot, better regenerative cooling capacity and better Isp than kerosene. (Ethane is good, too.) For upper stages hydrogen still often makes sense, even with the tank size, the insulation needed and the lack of storability - the better Isp really pays off when you're already at a high speed. The low weight of H2 helps, and the higher velocity exhaust works more efficiently at high spacecraft speeds (that's really just restating what Isp means).
"The small savings won't show up for individual users, but statistically over time, especially when combined with lots of small optimizations, they pay off."
Most sloppy programmers have never thought through the math. Let's take a typical custom development case for a particular commonly used function - this would be a lower bound for other scenarios with more users: 500 users 20 times used a day 250 days per year 5 year expected software life users make 1/3 of developer's salary after factoring in the discount rate on future user time savings = a factor of 4.16e6
So it's reasonable to spend:
*a bit over 1 developer hour to save 1 millisecond of user time per use, *or 1 developer week to save 35ms, or *1 developer year to save 1.7 seconds.
The small savings won't show up for individual users, but statistically over time, especially when combined with lots of small optimizations, they pay off.
The much bigger savings come from first spending the design time to reduce what the user has to do to accomplish the goal - fewer clicks, less hunting around in menus, more easily grasped display of relevant information, etc. These sorts of improvements can easily save 10s of seconds or even minutes per use and using the math above are therefore worth spending years of a whole development team's time to accomplish.
Depends how greedy the prince is. Construction costs are supposed to be only $210/square foot. ($2266/m^2), so ~$2/sq.ft./mo. seems like a reasonable price, even $3.00 for better bits. If he tries to charge too much more, very little will rent. Jeddah is not New York or Tokyo, there is plenty of land and not much demand.
The money will go to the Bin Laden group, the building will actually be built by lots of underpaid, ill-treated slave-like migrants. Saudis aren't big on doing actual work themselves. The design won't be Saudi either, I bet.
Yeah, corn about doubled in the last 5 years, but also nearly doubled in the last year, too. Corn has nearly tripled in the last 6 years, and the cost was much more stable in 2000-2005.
Bushels of commodity corn are in dried, cob-free form. 1 bushel maize = 56 lb = 25.4kg which would be much more than 100 ears, likely around 400 to 500 ears. But sweet corn comes from different strains, grown on a smaller scale has to be picked at the right time and delivered promptly, so the cost is completely different - there's really no telling what the farmer's price per ear is, and it will vary a lot depending where they are, but the percent difference over the period should be similar.
Well, for commodity corn (not the same kind) it's gone from about $3.75/bushel to $6.65 year over year. It's mostly weather related, but also fuel and correlation with other commodities (dollar going down in value).
The foreign currencies will inflate at nearly the same rate as the dollar due to their central banks having a large % of reserves in the dollar and not wanting to have their currencies appreciate against the dollar, as that would put their exports at a disadvantage.
Trading in gold and silver seems for everyday needs unlikely, but it is possible that this is not as big a price bubble as it appears. Nearly all commodities have risen quite a bit, which indicates that a large portion of the rise in precious metals is due to the real weakness of the dollar (not that I'd buy gold or silver now, but it's likely better than treasuries, at least.) For the real SHTF scenarios, even bags of silver coins may not be as good for trading as liquor and ammo, or as valuable as a good water filter. T
These are not minor problems - they are building a plant that handles 90C slightly-radioactive acid-abrasive slurry on a reclaimed swamp out of regular concrete, with no moisture barrier between the ground and the concrete, with cracks and voids in the walls of the already inadequate concrete, and connecting these tanks with pipes made out of regular non-corrosion resistant steel. The moisture from the ground is going to crumble the concrete, the slurry is going to eat through the pipes, and then go right into the ground. Not good.
Yep. Rare earths are not rare, but they are nearly chemically indistinguishable, making the separation difficult. For most steelmaking purposes, a mixture of the metals ("mischmetal", also used in lighter flints) works fine. But for magnets, phosphors, superconductors etc, single elements are required, which makes a lot of nasty chemical waste. Also, there are often nearly unmarketable nasties such as thorium in the tailings, at least in monazite sands.
You have a mainboard ($120) which runs the software and interfaces with the other modules. These include a USB module ($25), a display ($100), camera ($34), LED module ($15), buttons ($5), Ethernet ($15), WiFi ($100), SD card ($7), USB Host ($6), Serial to USB ($20) and a joystick module ($7). There are also some expansion modules and a starter kit which includes a processor and a selection of modules ($250).
$15 just for an LED!?
Also it has so many ribbon cables, it looks like *%^$^! Cthulhu. Why do they use that many wires for each add-on? It's just ridiculous to use a ribbon cable for some of those things, let alone several just for an LCD.
Continuing to commit a tort or breach of contract (and also potentially a crime) is worse. Stopping such isn't destroying evidence, it's rectification, amelioration, and a good-faith effort to end any potential breach of contract or duty. It's like when you hurt yourself on a broken fixture on someone else's property. They can't be penalized in any way for fixing it, nor can the fact that they fixed it even be used as evidence that it was broken in the first place.
Better: Dear BSA Attorney, Thank you for your note of the 29th. We've reviewed software use at OurCompany and we have found no unlicensed nor unlawfully copied software.
We ask you: Who has made these allegations against us? What precisely was alleged? Was there any ostensible evidence proffered to support these allegations?
We hope that our review has put these unfounded allegations to rest, and look forward to your reply,
You
If they want an audit, the reply to the request should note that you have privileged and proprietary information on your machines, that supervising the audit to ensure the security of this information and compensating for interference with and interruption of the operation of your computer systems will result in damages to your business, and while you are neither agreeing to nor refusing a software audit at this time, in discharging your obligations to your shareholders [and/or partners, investors, employees, etc. as appropriate] you would need non-disclosure agreements protecting your proprietary and privileged information, scrutiny of the backgrounds and prior approval of any proposed auditors, an agreement as to the limited scope, methods and purposes of the audit, a prior agreement as to the standards and consequences of such an audit, advance compensation for legal and other fees associated with the negotiation of their proposal and its implementation, and arrangements for specified compensation for any potential harm that might occur to your business, with acceptable performance bonds posted to ensure prompt compensation for any such harm. Further, you should request the full text and specifically applicable sections of any alleged potential contractual agreements which they believe may grant them any rights or impose any obligations to them by your company, with a notification of estoppel for any contractual claims of which they have not notified you, and reserving the right to dispute under estoppel, fraud or other theories any putative contractual claims made by them founded on the basis of alleged contracts to which both your company and the BSA are not both parties, putative contracts which were not signed, putative contracts which were not witnessed, putative contracts which were not sealed, putative contracts without demonstration of valid consideration, putative contracts in violation of law or public policy, including but not limited to: fraud, unconscionable, immoral, or impossible terms, coercive or misrepresented terms, those violating laws against barratry, maintenance, champerty, tortuous interference, frivolous and vexatious claims and litigation, and strategic lawsuits against public participation as well as any sections of such contracts violating , attempting to violate, or purporting to create a right to violate any of those laws or policies, or abridging, modifying, infringing or attempting or purporting to create a right to abridge, modify, or infringe any contractual rights assumed by law, including but not limited to peaceable enjoyment, warranties, implied terms, fair dealing and any other rights, privileges or legal theories which may be applicable to the case.
(Always use "alleged" or "putative" in connection with any "contract" which you might not want to follow slavishly - do not admit to the validity of any contracts with the BSA!)
"That Sauron [Koch] bred them none doubted...Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race, strong, agile, fierce and cunning, [or rather: obese, clumsy, loud and moronic] but harder than stone. [mentally, at least] Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun, so long as the will of Sauron held sway over them. They spoke little, and the only tongue that they knew was the Black Speech of Barad-dur" [Fox]
The Bush tax cuts did not increase revenue, they cut revenue by over a trillion dollars. If you don't like the term "Bush", then call them "Republican". (And don't call the health care bill (insurance company tit-sucking act) "Obamacare", by your logic.) The Bush wars (and they were his alone, although Congress rolled over) cost trillions more, with absolutely no effect other than gutting the constitutional rights of Americans, killing millions of brown people (mostly under the age of 5, continuing the Bush I and Clinton policies) and enriching the most evil plutocrats the world has ever seen. The financial parasite enabling acts ("financial bailouts") started in the Bush presidency, drafted by Bush appointees. Neither Obama nor the Democrats objected. In the meantime, the Social Security and Medicare system more than paid for itself (exclusively with regressive payroll taxes on the poor and middle class, and despite the Bush pharmaceutical giveaway - no price negotiation with big pharma) and even produced a surplus which was stolen to finance the wars.
Both parties are complicit in treason. There isn't a bit of real difference between them when you look at their acts rather than their rhetoric. We live in a one party police state. If you aren't willing to remove all of them from office, if you favor either "party", you are not free, you are an enemy of freedom. If you side with the corporations who control them both, you are not an American, you are not a human, you are the common enemy of all humanity, your kind will be annihilated, and the world will be a better place for it.
"[The Federal Reserve] was created by Congress so that it could manuever around the Constitution and legally create a fiat currency."
The Congress cannot delegate powers it doesn't have. The Congress has the power to " lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises", "To borrow money on the credit of the United States", To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin", "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
The Contract clause does not apply to the Federal government, but only to the States: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
By implication, the Congress is not forbidden by this section of the Constitution to do any of those things (elsewhere, in art.I sec. 9, Congress is prohibited from passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and granting titles of nobility, but not from the other items in the Contract Clause) thus if it falls into one of the (poorly) enumerated powers such as regulating interstate commerce (as any law affecting the national currency presumably does), Congress may "emit Bills of Credit", make "Things other than gold or silver coin a Tender in Payment of Debts", and "pass Laws impairing the Obligation of Contracts." Thus Congress can issue a fiat currency under the Constitution. If the Congress can do so, then the courts have held that they can delegate that power. Congress has done so to the Federal Reserve. If there is any end-run around the Constitution, it is in delegating powers, but not in the powers themselves.
The problem isn't so much that they're "hypocrits" [sic] as that they're gullible, ignorant, illiterate morons begging to be used as tools by the worst elements of the corporate-media complex. (i.e."True Americans")
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Christ, what an asshole. Morons like you are the whole problem. Go back to sucking Glen Beck's dick and leave the grownups alone, OK?
Christ, what an asshole.
There is no difference. Both are owned by their corporate masters. Clinton was the best Republican president ever. Eisenhower was the best Democratic president ever. (And the last real one - don't say he didn't warn you.) If you want your country back, you're going to have to kill some plutocrats.
If you're going to use LOX anyway you might as well go to chilled propane at the same temperature as the LOX. Chilled, it has the same density as kerosene, less tendency to gunk up the pipes when hot, better regenerative cooling capacity and better Isp than kerosene. (Ethane is good, too.) For upper stages hydrogen still often makes sense, even with the tank size, the insulation needed and the lack of storability - the better Isp really pays off when you're already at a high speed. The low weight of H2 helps, and the higher velocity exhaust works more efficiently at high spacecraft speeds (that's really just restating what Isp means).
"The small savings won't show up for individual users, but statistically over time, especially when combined with lots of small optimizations, they pay off."
Most sloppy programmers have never thought through the math. Let's take a typical custom development case for a particular commonly used function - this would be a lower bound for other scenarios with more users:
500 users
20 times used a day
250 days per year
5 year expected software life
users make 1/3 of developer's salary after factoring in the discount rate on future user time savings
= a factor of 4.16e6
So it's reasonable to spend:
*a bit over 1 developer hour to save 1 millisecond of user time per use,
*or 1 developer week to save 35ms, or
*1 developer year to save 1.7 seconds.
The small savings won't show up for individual users, but statistically over time, especially when combined with lots of small optimizations, they pay off.
The much bigger savings come from first spending the design time to reduce what the user has to do to accomplish the goal - fewer clicks, less hunting around in menus, more easily grasped display of relevant information, etc. These sorts of improvements can easily save 10s of seconds or even minutes per use and using the math above are therefore worth spending years of a whole development team's time to accomplish.
Depends how greedy the prince is. Construction costs are supposed to be only $210/square foot. ($2266/m^2), so ~$2/sq.ft./mo. seems like a reasonable price, even $3.00 for better bits. If he tries to charge too much more, very little will rent. Jeddah is not New York or Tokyo, there is plenty of land and not much demand.
The money will go to the Bin Laden group, the building will actually be built by lots of underpaid, ill-treated slave-like migrants. Saudis aren't big on doing actual work themselves. The design won't be Saudi either, I bet.
Yeah, corn about doubled in the last 5 years, but also nearly doubled in the last year, too. Corn has nearly tripled in the last 6 years, and the cost was much more stable in 2000-2005.
Bushels of commodity corn are in dried, cob-free form. 1 bushel maize = 56 lb = 25.4kg which would be much more than 100 ears, likely around 400 to 500 ears. But sweet corn comes from different strains, grown on a smaller scale has to be picked at the right time and delivered promptly, so the cost is completely different - there's really no telling what the farmer's price per ear is, and it will vary a lot depending where they are, but the percent difference over the period should be similar.
Well, for commodity corn (not the same kind) it's gone from about $3.75/bushel to $6.65 year over year. It's mostly weather related, but also fuel and correlation with other commodities (dollar going down in value).
The foreign currencies will inflate at nearly the same rate as the dollar due to their central banks having a large % of reserves in the dollar and not wanting to have their currencies appreciate against the dollar, as that would put their exports at a disadvantage.
Trading in gold and silver seems for everyday needs unlikely, but it is possible that this is not as big a price bubble as it appears. Nearly all commodities have risen quite a bit, which indicates that a large portion of the rise in precious metals is due to the real weakness of the dollar (not that I'd buy gold or silver now, but it's likely better than treasuries, at least.) For the real SHTF scenarios, even bags of silver coins may not be as good for trading as liquor and ammo, or as valuable as a good water filter. T
$40-$60K for hard rock machine operators, about double that for any kind of "engineer" geologist" or even "foreman".
These are not minor problems - they are building a plant that handles 90C slightly-radioactive acid-abrasive slurry on a reclaimed swamp out of regular concrete, with no moisture barrier between the ground and the concrete, with cracks and voids in the walls of the already inadequate concrete, and connecting these tanks with pipes made out of regular non-corrosion resistant steel. The moisture from the ground is going to crumble the concrete, the slurry is going to eat through the pipes, and then go right into the ground. Not good.
Yep. Rare earths are not rare, but they are nearly chemically indistinguishable, making the separation difficult. For most steelmaking purposes, a mixture of the metals ("mischmetal", also used in lighter flints) works fine. But for magnets, phosphors, superconductors etc, single elements are required, which makes a lot of nasty chemical waste. Also, there are often nearly unmarketable nasties such as thorium in the tailings, at least in monazite sands.
A little pricey? From TFA:
$15 just for an LED!?
Also it has so many ribbon cables, it looks like *%^$^! Cthulhu.
Why do they use that many wires for each add-on? It's just ridiculous to use a ribbon cable for some of those things, let alone several just for an LCD.
I stopped reading after this bit of idiocy:
"It would be electric-motor-powered to eliminate the need for starting equipment and heavy fuel."
(Oh, batteries have more energy density than gas now?)
Continuing to commit a tort or breach of contract (and also potentially a crime) is worse. Stopping such isn't destroying evidence, it's rectification, amelioration, and a good-faith effort to end any potential breach of contract or duty. It's like when you hurt yourself on a broken fixture on someone else's property. They can't be penalized in any way for fixing it, nor can the fact that they fixed it even be used as evidence that it was broken in the first place.
(IANAL, but an ex-paralegal.)
Better:
Dear BSA Attorney,
Thank you for your note of the 29th. We've reviewed software use at OurCompany and we have found no unlicensed nor unlawfully copied software.
We ask you:
Who has made these allegations against us? What precisely was alleged? Was there any ostensible evidence proffered to support these allegations?
We hope that our review has put these unfounded allegations to rest, and look forward to your reply,
You
If they want an audit, the reply to the request should note that you have privileged and proprietary information on your machines, that supervising the audit to ensure the security of this information and compensating for interference with and interruption of the operation of your computer systems will result in damages to your business, and while you are neither agreeing to nor refusing a software audit at this time, in discharging your obligations to your shareholders [and/or partners, investors, employees, etc. as appropriate] you would need non-disclosure agreements protecting your proprietary and privileged information, scrutiny of the backgrounds and prior approval of any proposed auditors, an agreement as to the limited scope, methods and purposes of the audit, a prior agreement as to the standards and consequences of such an audit, advance compensation for legal and other fees associated with the negotiation of their proposal and its implementation, and arrangements for specified compensation for any potential harm that might occur to your business, with acceptable performance bonds posted to ensure prompt compensation for any such harm. Further, you should request the full text and specifically applicable sections of any alleged potential contractual agreements which they believe may grant them any rights or impose any obligations to them by your company, with a notification of estoppel for any contractual claims of which they have not notified you, and reserving the right to dispute under estoppel, fraud or other theories any putative contractual claims made by them founded on the basis of alleged contracts to which both your company and the BSA are not both parties, putative contracts which were not signed, putative contracts which were not witnessed, putative contracts which were not sealed, putative contracts without demonstration of valid consideration, putative contracts in violation of law or public policy, including but not limited to: fraud, unconscionable, immoral, or impossible terms, coercive or misrepresented terms, those violating laws against barratry, maintenance, champerty, tortuous interference, frivolous and vexatious claims and litigation, and strategic lawsuits against public participation as well as any sections of such contracts violating , attempting to violate, or purporting to create a right to violate any of those laws or policies, or abridging, modifying, infringing or attempting or purporting to create a right to abridge, modify, or infringe any contractual rights assumed by law, including but not limited to peaceable enjoyment, warranties, implied terms, fair dealing and any other rights, privileges or legal theories which may be applicable to the case.
(Always use "alleged" or "putative" in connection with any "contract" which you might not want to follow slavishly - do not admit to the validity of any contracts with the BSA!)
The alpha and the $35 version "B" will have 2 USB, a built-in USB hub and Ethernet.
No, that would involve fatally gene-tweaked donkeys.
"That Sauron [Koch] bred them none doubted...Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race, strong, agile, fierce and cunning, [or rather: obese, clumsy, loud and moronic] but harder than stone. [mentally, at least] Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun, so long as the will of Sauron held sway over them. They spoke little, and the only tongue that they knew was the Black Speech of Barad-dur" [Fox]
The Bush tax cuts did not increase revenue, they cut revenue by over a trillion dollars. If you don't like the term "Bush", then call them "Republican". (And don't call the health care bill (insurance company tit-sucking act) "Obamacare", by your logic.) The Bush wars (and they were his alone, although Congress rolled over) cost trillions more, with absolutely no effect other than gutting the constitutional rights of Americans, killing millions of brown people (mostly under the age of 5, continuing the Bush I and Clinton policies) and enriching the most evil plutocrats the world has ever seen. The financial parasite enabling acts ("financial bailouts") started in the Bush presidency, drafted by Bush appointees. Neither Obama nor the Democrats objected. In the meantime, the Social Security and Medicare system more than paid for itself (exclusively with regressive payroll taxes on the poor and middle class, and despite the Bush pharmaceutical giveaway - no price negotiation with big pharma) and even produced a surplus which was stolen to finance the wars.
Both parties are complicit in treason. There isn't a bit of real difference between them when you look at their acts rather than their rhetoric. We live in a one party police state. If you aren't willing to remove all of them from office, if you favor either "party", you are not free, you are an enemy of freedom. If you side with the corporations who control them both, you are not an American, you are not a human, you are the common enemy of all humanity, your kind will be annihilated, and the world will be a better place for it.
"[The Federal Reserve] was created by Congress so that it could manuever around the Constitution and legally create a fiat currency."
The Congress cannot delegate powers it doesn't have. The Congress has the power to " lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises", "To borrow money on the credit of the United States", To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin", "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
The Contract clause does not apply to the Federal government, but only to the States:
"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
By implication, the Congress is not forbidden by this section of the Constitution to do any of those things (elsewhere, in art.I sec. 9, Congress is prohibited from passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and granting titles of nobility, but not from the other items in the Contract Clause) thus if it falls into one of the (poorly) enumerated powers such as regulating interstate commerce (as any law affecting the national currency presumably does), Congress may "emit Bills of Credit", make "Things other than gold or silver coin a Tender in Payment of Debts", and "pass Laws impairing the Obligation of Contracts." Thus Congress can issue a fiat currency under the Constitution. If the Congress can do so, then the courts have held that they can delegate that power. Congress has done so to the Federal Reserve. If there is any end-run around the Constitution, it is in delegating powers, but not in the powers themselves.
The problem isn't so much that they're "hypocrits" [sic] as that they're gullible, ignorant, illiterate morons begging to be used as tools by the worst elements of the corporate-media complex. (i.e."True Americans")
"This was basically started in England with the Civil list and the Magna Carter "
I dunno. The 70s was a long time ago. Is that really relevant today?