so what do you do when 80% of your income is earmarked for the following exact things "rent (cheapest place in town) electric, heat, food, and vehicle payment (almost payed off).
and the final 20% always gets vaporized by some sort of emergency cost?
i work 40 hours a week with an hour unpaid lunch every day. the ends meet if you really stretch. this is a problem, because my job is contract labor, with no taxes removed, so i have to squirrel away about 3k a year just to pay my taxes. that means I basically live to save up enough to pay my taxes. working more hours does not really help, because i have to pay more taxes on the money i make working more hours.
the solution is to quit, become a vagabond, and have no income to tax. but if i where a vagabond, i could not read/. during my lunchbreak.
Not really, Russia builds its rockets lying down. At one point, and i've not checked to see if they still use it, there integration building was a mile long. and honestly, its easier that way, as you don't have to lift heavy pieces as high, and then place then with precision. you just lift them a *little* and then place them with precision.
Just so you know, from what i've seen, the math works out to something along the lines of:
if we built enough wind towers to supply every watt of power needed by every human on earth, the earth would gain a SOLID second, not a leap second, in 10,000 years.
yea, I think i'll skip the panic.
I had been thinking about this the other day driving past the vast wind farm that is being installed near where i live. I've read a lot of times that the problem with wind/solar energy, is they typically produce peak power, at off times. and, with wind especially, when they are producing, they can produce a prodigious amount of power. the place where they are being built is on top of a series of mesas, and i thought, "wouldn't it be great if they could build a closed circuit hydraulic generation system, where when they have excess power, they pump water up the mesa, and when they need the power they run it down and spin generators"
I'm only a little disappointed that i was not the first person to think of it. But honestly, where they are installing this wind-farm would be ideal, build it onsite, fill the thing with water, and boom, mechanical storage.
DING! and we finally get someone who gets it.
Verizon has the same deal going on as the fabled "ATT/Yahoo!" DSL package. you get ATT DSL, with a deranged ATT frontend for Yahoo's services.
So what you have in the article, is Verizon internet, with a Verizon frontend for Yahoo, MSN or AOL. now, since Verizon sold off its responsibility for this frontend business to FairPoint, the yahoo.verison.blah frontend is going to become yahoo.fairpoint.blah or somsuch.
verizon was the third party website, Yahoo.com can't very well be a 3rd party website to its own services now can it?
now, Fairpoint is the third party website.
thank you and good night.
actually, being able to cross your eyes and still focus can be really annoying, mostly because, at least for me, it can be tough to get them to UNCROSS after a few minutes of viewing pictures like these, and then i tend to go around with one eye shut until my brain-eye connection resets and my eyes start to behave in a rational way again.
I grew up on a ranch. where people raise cows in numbers over thousands. Farms are where people grow corn, wheat, and other plants. your stereotypical "farm" where there are 20 cows on the back lot, some pigs, a few sheep, and some chickens? the only people that do that are the arrogant bastards that move out of the city and decide that they have to be "farmers"
I hate to break it to you, but in this day and age, at least in the US, not one person is clearcutting forested land to grow corn or raise beef cattle.
contrary to popular opinion, cattle do not require open, treeless land to grow. amazingly enough, they fare extremely well in forested areas, mountains, deserts, and other seemingly "non cow" locations.
If you grow corn, you don't look at forested land, you look at land that is not going to cost you a fortune and a half to remove the trees from, remove the tree stumps from, remove the inevitable boulders that go with trees and stumps, Level the land, and *then* grow corn. you buy flat clear land in the midwest, where they grow corn already, and you grow corn.
more tree cutting damage comes from the oil industry than the cattle and corn industries combined.
that, and we have these vast tracts of land we refer to as national parks, where we vehemently prevent natural burn offs, that naturally cull forests. I'm not saying that finding an economical, non-petroleum based alternative to harvesting billions of trees to make paper and houses is a bad thing, but i swear to you, the day we actually find an easier, cheeper, faster way to build a house or write a note, we'll switch. (and don't say concrete. concrete is expensive, and a pain in the @$$ to build with in residential terms)
It actually took more than 2 seconds for them to notice that the picture was edited?
i've seen better photoshops that where with one eye closed, using the trackpad on a laptop.
the "not understood" is more about the "how am i going to make a black hole, keep it under control and manipulate it into orbit around another black hole" i should have been more clear on that point.
in the book Deep Storm.
the weapon is not named per-say, but the idea is, you have two black holes. one composed entirely of anti mater, and the other, of its opposite normal mater.
these two black holes. through means not understood by humans in the book, are locked in orbit around one another.
it is learned by the end of the book, that these black holes are weapons, and whatever it is that keeps them orbiting each other can be turned off, allowing them to merge.
the results of this of course, are on the order of the destruction of solar systems at minimum.
this is the best one i've ever heard of.
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so what do you do when 80% of your income is earmarked for the following exact things "rent (cheapest place in town) electric, heat, food, and vehicle payment (almost payed off). and the final 20% always gets vaporized by some sort of emergency cost?
having an economic system that is so nucking futs complex does nothing to help though.
this is why i could do 14 hour shifts running a computer lab, but anything over 10 hours in construction starts getting dangerous fast.
10 hour days are hilarious when they start at 6am. and go through lunch. sure, you're home by 4 or so, but that working in the dark is a bitch.
i work 40 hours a week with an hour unpaid lunch every day. the ends meet if you really stretch. this is a problem, because my job is contract labor, with no taxes removed, so i have to squirrel away about 3k a year just to pay my taxes. that means I basically live to save up enough to pay my taxes. working more hours does not really help, because i have to pay more taxes on the money i make working more hours. the solution is to quit, become a vagabond, and have no income to tax. but if i where a vagabond, i could not read /. during my lunchbreak.
i've not needed to eject a floppy disk from an internal or external drive in ages. scupper off now.
you're mixing your stereotypes.
Not really, Russia builds its rockets lying down. At one point, and i've not checked to see if they still use it, there integration building was a mile long. and honestly, its easier that way, as you don't have to lift heavy pieces as high, and then place then with precision. you just lift them a *little* and then place them with precision.
I've been doing materials research! so far i've found that fire is still hot.
Just so you know, from what i've seen, the math works out to something along the lines of: if we built enough wind towers to supply every watt of power needed by every human on earth, the earth would gain a SOLID second, not a leap second, in 10,000 years. yea, I think i'll skip the panic.
sure it is! its just going to cover half the state 4 inches deep when it fills!
See my post above. there is a wind farm going in in west texas that is on a series of mesas that have close to a thousand foot elevation change.
I had been thinking about this the other day driving past the vast wind farm that is being installed near where i live. I've read a lot of times that the problem with wind/solar energy, is they typically produce peak power, at off times. and, with wind especially, when they are producing, they can produce a prodigious amount of power. the place where they are being built is on top of a series of mesas, and i thought, "wouldn't it be great if they could build a closed circuit hydraulic generation system, where when they have excess power, they pump water up the mesa, and when they need the power they run it down and spin generators" I'm only a little disappointed that i was not the first person to think of it. But honestly, where they are installing this wind-farm would be ideal, build it onsite, fill the thing with water, and boom, mechanical storage.
DING! and we finally get someone who gets it. Verizon has the same deal going on as the fabled "ATT/Yahoo!" DSL package. you get ATT DSL, with a deranged ATT frontend for Yahoo's services. So what you have in the article, is Verizon internet, with a Verizon frontend for Yahoo, MSN or AOL. now, since Verizon sold off its responsibility for this frontend business to FairPoint, the yahoo.verison.blah frontend is going to become yahoo.fairpoint.blah or somsuch. verizon was the third party website, Yahoo.com can't very well be a 3rd party website to its own services now can it? now, Fairpoint is the third party website. thank you and good night.
actually, being able to cross your eyes and still focus can be really annoying, mostly because, at least for me, it can be tough to get them to UNCROSS after a few minutes of viewing pictures like these, and then i tend to go around with one eye shut until my brain-eye connection resets and my eyes start to behave in a rational way again.
I grew up on a ranch. where people raise cows in numbers over thousands. Farms are where people grow corn, wheat, and other plants. your stereotypical "farm" where there are 20 cows on the back lot, some pigs, a few sheep, and some chickens? the only people that do that are the arrogant bastards that move out of the city and decide that they have to be "farmers"
I hate to break it to you, but in this day and age, at least in the US, not one person is clearcutting forested land to grow corn or raise beef cattle. contrary to popular opinion, cattle do not require open, treeless land to grow. amazingly enough, they fare extremely well in forested areas, mountains, deserts, and other seemingly "non cow" locations. If you grow corn, you don't look at forested land, you look at land that is not going to cost you a fortune and a half to remove the trees from, remove the tree stumps from, remove the inevitable boulders that go with trees and stumps, Level the land, and *then* grow corn. you buy flat clear land in the midwest, where they grow corn already, and you grow corn. more tree cutting damage comes from the oil industry than the cattle and corn industries combined.
that, and we have these vast tracts of land we refer to as national parks, where we vehemently prevent natural burn offs, that naturally cull forests. I'm not saying that finding an economical, non-petroleum based alternative to harvesting billions of trees to make paper and houses is a bad thing, but i swear to you, the day we actually find an easier, cheeper, faster way to build a house or write a note, we'll switch. (and don't say concrete. concrete is expensive, and a pain in the @$$ to build with in residential terms)
It actually took more than 2 seconds for them to notice that the picture was edited? i've seen better photoshops that where with one eye closed, using the trackpad on a laptop.
the "not understood" is more about the "how am i going to make a black hole, keep it under control and manipulate it into orbit around another black hole" i should have been more clear on that point.
in the book Deep Storm. the weapon is not named per-say, but the idea is, you have two black holes. one composed entirely of anti mater, and the other, of its opposite normal mater. these two black holes. through means not understood by humans in the book, are locked in orbit around one another. it is learned by the end of the book, that these black holes are weapons, and whatever it is that keeps them orbiting each other can be turned off, allowing them to merge. the results of this of course, are on the order of the destruction of solar systems at minimum. this is the best one i've ever heard of.
sometimes, comments like these seem eerily sincere...
I *really* need to find and buy that book. it was great.
sadly i think it means that for the most part, off the shelf programers come in PC, not mac.
*cough* 1920x1200 pixels should be more than enough for anyone....