*gasp* Chimeras are the worst sort of evil. Have you not watched your Full Metal Alchemist episodes? You aren't proposing a bass with a frickin laser. What you're proposing is an engineer speaking out a sales person's a** and that's just not right...
We can see profit, profit is immediate, pollution is a problem for someone else at some other time. Further, most people are scared of paradigm shifts. Change involves unknowns and uncomfortability. If you can keep doing the same thing and make comfortable profit why ever would you want to upset that?
Nimby might like that but the power co tends to step in then with NOMBY (not off my back yard).
Either way, $50M doesn't sound very much like a bold step. Spend $1M to file the paperwork for the $50M which may then in turn put up a couple dozen small turbines, or pay for the paperwork to file with the proper authorities for a large installation. Even going the small, installation route that still leaves the expense of lawyers for NIMBY.
In the US NAT was/is a response to consumers that want to host content. It will be interesting to see how Crapcast (presently testing IPv6 on elected customers) and their kin will address this given the absence of an excuse for not issuing a static IP.
Kennedy was involved in the self-same pissing contests as any other post WWII president. The only thing that stands him apart is the fact that someone shot him and he initiated a DoD project that had a high "ooh shiny" factor.
It never really existed in the first place. Every government led/sponsored technological advancement since the US' entry into WWII has been for imperialist agendas. The only admiration we've received are from our benefactors or those that hoped to be such. The rest of the world has rightly recognized us and our motives.
Don't worry, we (as in the US) still won't. Nuclear is scary, conservation,...warm and fuzzy, make you feel so good inside while I eat my organic food and drink from my disposable water bottles (what's an endocrine disruptor btw?); gosh I'm so glad my cereal is made using wind power; kids go get in the Expedition, we gotta get to soccer practice.
In singular perhaps, but not in aggregate. US DoD funding for one year dwarfs the ISS. I personally would rather invest in something that can pay dividends even if the payout is some distance off. The slaughter of man and the destruction of infrastructure doesn't fit that bill. Stop making swords, start making pens, and go put the savings to productive use.
One might have argued similar things when we were first trying to concentrate uranium and plutonium... Unless there is a fundamental and prohibitively restrictive energy budget of which I am unaware (perhaps a physics person could chime in...) I wouldn't get too pessimistic just yet. To my knowledge we've only been poking at the margins of anti-matter production for the purpose of study not utility.
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*gasp* Chimeras are the worst sort of evil. Have you not watched your Full Metal Alchemist episodes? You aren't proposing a bass with a frickin laser. What you're proposing is an engineer speaking out a sales person's a** and that's just not right...
taking cues from tech savvy people. What a curious concept.
Yes, but mostly no. It is a form of PR mostly. If you look at the numbers you'll note that the investment is minuscule.
We can see profit, profit is immediate, pollution is a problem for someone else at some other time. Further, most people are scared of paradigm shifts. Change involves unknowns and uncomfortability. If you can keep doing the same thing and make comfortable profit why ever would you want to upset that?
Nimby might like that but the power co tends to step in then with NOMBY (not off my back yard).
Either way, $50M doesn't sound very much like a bold step. Spend $1M to file the paperwork for the $50M which may then in turn put up a couple dozen small turbines, or pay for the paperwork to file with the proper authorities for a large installation. Even going the small, installation route that still leaves the expense of lawyers for NIMBY.
Who's laughing now?
I am
Whatever do you mean? We (western medicine) have been using energy-based approaches for quite some time now...
I fail to see the relevance when everyone will be running Chrome on Android and OS X.
I doubt it counts. Cell phones haven't gone out of use, just the method of data transmission.
Haven't read the latest US manual on terrorist information extraction have you?
Even if the "flint" ax was no longer in use axes are and I think that would disqualify it.
In the US NAT was/is a response to consumers that want to host content. It will be interesting to see how Crapcast (presently testing IPv6 on elected customers) and their kin will address this given the absence of an excuse for not issuing a static IP.
You insensitive clod. I live in the US, we've been forced to do that from the beginning.
Kennedy was involved in the self-same pissing contests as any other post WWII president. The only thing that stands him apart is the fact that someone shot him and he initiated a DoD project that had a high "ooh shiny" factor.
It never really existed in the first place. Every government led/sponsored technological advancement since the US' entry into WWII has been for imperialist agendas. The only admiration we've received are from our benefactors or those that hoped to be such. The rest of the world has rightly recognized us and our motives.
Don't worry, Joss Whedon had a great prophecy about China...
Don't worry, we (as in the US) still won't. Nuclear is scary, conservation, ...warm and fuzzy, make you feel so good inside while I eat my organic food and drink from my disposable water bottles (what's an endocrine disruptor btw?); gosh I'm so glad my cereal is made using wind power; kids go get in the Expedition, we gotta get to soccer practice.
It could be worse, they could be Apple...
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I don't know why, but when I read this I couldn't help but think of a group of Furbies chattering amongst themselves...
I think that's a bit "optimistic" for waitress. It'd best be an upscale joint, and you'd best be highly competent and very hot.
In singular perhaps, but not in aggregate. US DoD funding for one year dwarfs the ISS. I personally would rather invest in something that can pay dividends even if the payout is some distance off. The slaughter of man and the destruction of infrastructure doesn't fit that bill. Stop making swords, start making pens, and go put the savings to productive use.
One might have argued similar things when we were first trying to concentrate uranium and plutonium... Unless there is a fundamental and prohibitively restrictive energy budget of which I am unaware (perhaps a physics person could chime in...) I wouldn't get too pessimistic just yet. To my knowledge we've only been poking at the margins of anti-matter production for the purpose of study not utility.
To hell with the rocket equation. It's time to invest heavily in finding a propeller that can propel through the Dirac Sea.
I'd rather fancy it collecting interstellar birds...