I take it you didn't bother to actually read anything about the project with the supplied link, did you? I take it you also don't understand that a lot of the wars that have happened have been over things like resources? You also realize that hydro electric power generation is also a renewable source of electricity other than wind, solar and tidal? You also realize these renewable technologies are advancing at a higher rate the more they get deployed (that whole supply and demand thing that capitalists love to talk about)?
There are also proposals to put a large solar array several square kilometers in area in the Sahara Desert [desertec.org] that could generate power for the entire planet
And on the plus side, that's a nice stable area where we wouldn't have to worry about some terrorist group trying to blow up any key collection facilities either!
Ummm, you do realize where the majority of oil comes from, right? You also realize that the reason these guys would go after this stuff is because of our gluttony and wealth of resources, along with our foreign policies in the regions we're talking about, right?
That's only raptors, not all bird species that are being threatened by wind turbines, and then it's only a few species of raptors that are in any imminent danger, e.g., golden eagles in California. The frying problem is also limited to solar concentrator deployments, not passive solar and not in all locations where concentrator deployment is done or planned. Your concern is duly noted (and is being addressed as we type), but hardly comparable to what fossil fuel extraction and distribution have harmed to date.
Generating the power is only half the issue; you have to DISTRIBUTE the power to where it's needed as well, otherwise it's useless. Remind me again how many of the world's population centers are near the Sahara and Gobi deserts?
They don't have to be. Go do some reading about current and under development power distribution technologies. If nothing else it can be beamed via microwaves over long distances, even to space and back if necessary. Google and the Internet are better sources of information than your rectum.
To generate enough power for the whole planet to live at US energy consumption levels (i.e., for everyone to have a good standard of living), you'll need to cover a significant percentage of the land area with solar panels.
Nope. Go read some more. Start with the link I provided and then do your own googling. Also, who said it would all need to be terrestrial-based solar? I merely gave examples that were terrestrial.
I ain't doing the rest of the homework for you, so go look for yourself at the numbers for the "INDUSTRIALIZED FIRST WORLD" for yourself. Don't forget hydro as a renewable source, either, because it is. Just because the U.S. has low numbers doesn't mean the rest of the countries are as stupid as we are. Renewables are here to stay and are a growing portion of the world's energy resources and will continue to grow. Your other assertions (without any credible sources other than your rectum) are laughable if they weren't so myopic and ignorant.
The irony is that the mathematical foundations of bitcoin create a solid record of legitimate ownership that may be more ironclad against fraud than many of the systems employed by businesses today.
What kind of idiots do they have running things over there?
The kind that have to answer to the idiots (that are wising up) at the movie studios and other content providers that they have to pay contracts to in order for you to view the content on Netflix. Don't kill the messenger. Get angry with the greedy studio bastards that are setting outrageous content prices for streaming rights.
It can already be done (Teller etc), it's just scaling it down to a manageable scale that's the problem.
You're referencing a thermonuclear device. Ok, but containing the reaction and getting adequate temperatures are the problems we have today. Scale at this point is moot. See ITER.
Every element in the universe was created through fusion. It just starts with hydrogen and works its way up. I think hydrogen is also the easiest to get to fuse, but I'm not sure on that one.
There are also proposals to put a large solar array several square kilometers in area in the Sahara Desert that could generate power for the entire planet. Then there's the Gobi Desert where it could also be done, the Mojave already has some solar concentrator sites with more planned (if they can fix the bird frying problem). So, there are ways for us to generate the electricity that we will need for a long time from renewable sources. I don't discard or disparage nuclear fusion research because it is also important going forward, but we do have other practical ways of generating electricity from natural phenomena, wind and tidal being two others that are coming along a lot faster than better fission and currently non-existent fusion reactors.
Careful. In one NIH study they did find one woman that was sensitive to the power cycling of EMF devices. She couldn't sense the device when it was already on and brought into the room, but could sense when it was turned on or off. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Better idea. Just put one in your pocket on vibrate and see if she notices. I'll bet her whole settlement she doesn't even notice you have the thing on in your pocket. Or, just do a double-blind test on her. It wouldn't take much money and only about a half day of time. The lawyer fees were most likely higher than the test to prove she's full of duck butter.
I'm not an quantum physicist, but the loopholes appear to be in the experiments intended to demonstrate the "spookiness" of quantum theory, not the theory itself:
The first Bell test was carried out in 1981, by Alain Aspect’s team at the Institute of Optics in Palaiseau, France. Many more have been performed since, always coming down on the side of spookiness — but each of those experiments has had loopholes that meant that physicists have never been able to fully close the door on Einstein’s view.
I'm gonna argue with you on this new info not closing loopholes in the theory. Until there is proof (demonstrable and repeatable) to back a theory there are loopholes or gaps in the theory. Once the gaps and loopholes have been closed through experimentation the theory comes closer to being fact and not theory. The loopholes existed in the quantum entanglement experiments because of less than ideal methodology, testing conditions, apparatus, etc. in trying to apply the theory to reality.
One issue of course would be that the voting registry (which is public already and contains who voted and is time stamped, so also in what order) could very easily be used to guesstimate matching up specific people with specific votes, as the roll is going to be in chronological order as well. I'm not totally familiar with Kansas law, but there's a good chance they're legally supposed to have a secret ballot.
Secret ballots are primarily supposed to be secret from the government.
No, they are supposed to be secret to anonymize who voted for what/whom to prevent reprisal or intimidation. I am not sure what history books you're reading or where you get your definitions, but they certainly aren't from factual sources. Try reading this: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu...
Just because I voted in a polling place between 7:00 and 8:00 AM doesn't mean they can locate MY vote from the dozen voting machines that were in that polling place. There were 11 other people voting along with me and they were supplanted by others during that same window of time I was voting, i.e., people came and went during my time. Sure, you could say these people voted during that period of time in that polling place (after the fact), but that still doesn't give me personal information about those people, nor does it tell me which vote during that time period is theirs. It could give you a ratio of votes for or against something, but it still doesn't tell you who voted which way.
The demographic info yes, but the researcher is looking at statistical anomalies in voting trends among those demographics, within their respective geolocations to find discrepancies that would possibly indicate voter fraud. Since the Republican party is so worried about voter fraud I don't see why a Republican SoS would NOT want to support research into possible voter fraud in his/her state. Seems more than a little hypocritical if not down right fishy.
Unless we know what his role in this startup is, it's hard to give really good advice. I'm pretty sure that he wasn't hired for his coding skills though, so any approach that spends a lot of time learning to program probably isn't a good use of his time. The question is, exactly what knowledge does he need to do his job? Maybe reading about some concepts like the "Mythical man-month" would be more useful than trying to grok introductory computer science?
This is where I was going with my comment. I don't think this accountant friend is the right person for the startup. I don't care what his role is, if he's interacting and directing programmers with no prior knowledge he's out of his depths. I don't care if this web platform he's working on was his idea or not, he's the wrong person for the role and needs to realize that before he wastes a lot of money and time.
I've been involved with several startup companies over the last 25 years and can say without hesitation that if you don't have the right people in the right roles you're doomed to fail. Fix that problem and you've got a fighting chance.
Here's what the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health have to say. There was a single female individual in the NIH study that could honestly detect the initiation and termination of a field (power cycling of a device), but when one was already on (or not) she could detect nothing. Other than that, everyone seems to agree that it's mostly psychosomatic in nature and without extensive, double-blind testing the kid has very little chance of winning a diagnosis let alone the suit. I would go with something in the environment other than EMF radiation as a cause, if the little bugger is actually ill at all.
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I take it you didn't bother to actually read anything about the project with the supplied link, did you? I take it you also don't understand that a lot of the wars that have happened have been over things like resources? You also realize that hydro electric power generation is also a renewable source of electricity other than wind, solar and tidal? You also realize these renewable technologies are advancing at a higher rate the more they get deployed (that whole supply and demand thing that capitalists love to talk about)?
There are also proposals to put a large solar array several square kilometers in area in the Sahara Desert [desertec.org] that could generate power for the entire planet
And on the plus side, that's a nice stable area where we wouldn't have to worry about some terrorist group trying to blow up any key collection facilities either!
Ummm, you do realize where the majority of oil comes from, right? You also realize that the reason these guys would go after this stuff is because of our gluttony and wealth of resources, along with our foreign policies in the regions we're talking about, right?
That's only raptors, not all bird species that are being threatened by wind turbines, and then it's only a few species of raptors that are in any imminent danger, e.g., golden eagles in California. The frying problem is also limited to solar concentrator deployments, not passive solar and not in all locations where concentrator deployment is done or planned. Your concern is duly noted (and is being addressed as we type), but hardly comparable to what fossil fuel extraction and distribution have harmed to date.
Link please or this info is from your posterior.
Generating the power is only half the issue; you have to DISTRIBUTE the power to where it's needed as well, otherwise it's useless. Remind me again how many of the world's population centers are near the Sahara and Gobi deserts?
They don't have to be. Go do some reading about current and under development power distribution technologies. If nothing else it can be beamed via microwaves over long distances, even to space and back if necessary. Google and the Internet are better sources of information than your rectum.
To generate enough power for the whole planet to live at US energy consumption levels (i.e., for everyone to have a good standard of living), you'll need to cover a significant percentage of the land area with solar panels.
Nope. Go read some more. Start with the link I provided and then do your own googling. Also, who said it would all need to be terrestrial-based solar? I merely gave examples that were terrestrial.
BTW, how's that 2nd-3rd world country doing with the strip-mining for them solar panels?
Still a lot better than the coal and petroleum industry to date, but why throw facts into your BS arguments.
Ok, two minutes of research on the Internet blows holes in your BS assertions:
Germany gets more than 36% of it's electric energy from renewable sources. It exports more electricity than it imports.
I ain't doing the rest of the homework for you, so go look for yourself at the numbers for the "INDUSTRIALIZED FIRST WORLD" for yourself. Don't forget hydro as a renewable source, either, because it is. Just because the U.S. has low numbers doesn't mean the rest of the countries are as stupid as we are. Renewables are here to stay and are a growing portion of the world's energy resources and will continue to grow. Your other assertions (without any credible sources other than your rectum) are laughable if they weren't so myopic and ignorant.
The irony is that the mathematical foundations of bitcoin create a solid record of legitimate ownership that may be more ironclad against fraud than many of the systems employed by businesses today.
Tell that to the members of the Mt. Gox exchange.
Sorry, you lost me at "InfoWorld". The title's premise was bad enough, but then you got to InfoWorld ...
"...won't be able to watch movies like The Hunger Games and World War Z"... "betting that customers won't miss the Epix content. "
Yeah, not with examples like those I won't...
True that. But, people can still get the discs for those movies from Netflix. They just don't have the streaming rights anymore.
What kind of idiots do they have running things over there?
The kind that have to answer to the idiots (that are wising up) at the movie studios and other content providers that they have to pay contracts to in order for you to view the content on Netflix. Don't kill the messenger. Get angry with the greedy studio bastards that are setting outrageous content prices for streaming rights.
It can already be done (Teller etc), it's just scaling it down to a manageable scale that's the problem.
You're referencing a thermonuclear device. Ok, but containing the reaction and getting adequate temperatures are the problems we have today. Scale at this point is moot. See ITER.
Every element in the universe was created through fusion. It just starts with hydrogen and works its way up. I think hydrogen is also the easiest to get to fuse, but I'm not sure on that one.
Every element besides hydrogen and a large amount of helium were formed through fusion reactions in stars. Here's some info on fusion and the binding energies of atomic elements.
FAIL!!! I think you've been huffing paint or living in an alternate reality. Hydrogen gas is easy to make through electrolysis, but the most commercially used way is through a process called steam reforming from hydrocarbons. Once produced it is easily separated from other byproducts.
There are also proposals to put a large solar array several square kilometers in area in the Sahara Desert that could generate power for the entire planet. Then there's the Gobi Desert where it could also be done, the Mojave already has some solar concentrator sites with more planned (if they can fix the bird frying problem). So, there are ways for us to generate the electricity that we will need for a long time from renewable sources. I don't discard or disparage nuclear fusion research because it is also important going forward, but we do have other practical ways of generating electricity from natural phenomena, wind and tidal being two others that are coming along a lot faster than better fission and currently non-existent fusion reactors.
Careful. In one NIH study they did find one woman that was sensitive to the power cycling of EMF devices. She couldn't sense the device when it was already on and brought into the room, but could sense when it was turned on or off. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Better idea. Just put one in your pocket on vibrate and see if she notices. I'll bet her whole settlement she doesn't even notice you have the thing on in your pocket. Or, just do a double-blind test on her. It wouldn't take much money and only about a half day of time. The lawyer fees were most likely higher than the test to prove she's full of duck butter.
I'm not an quantum physicist, but the loopholes appear to be in the experiments intended to demonstrate the "spookiness" of quantum theory, not the theory itself:
I'm gonna argue with you on this new info not closing loopholes in the theory. Until there is proof (demonstrable and repeatable) to back a theory there are loopholes or gaps in the theory. Once the gaps and loopholes have been closed through experimentation the theory comes closer to being fact and not theory. The loopholes existed in the quantum entanglement experiments because of less than ideal methodology, testing conditions, apparatus, etc. in trying to apply the theory to reality.
One issue of course would be that the voting registry (which is public already and contains who voted and is time stamped, so also in what order) could very easily be used to guesstimate matching up specific people with specific votes, as the roll is going to be in chronological order as well. I'm not totally familiar with Kansas law, but there's a good chance they're legally supposed to have a secret ballot.
Secret ballots are primarily supposed to be secret from the government.
No, they are supposed to be secret to anonymize who voted for what/whom to prevent reprisal or intimidation. I am not sure what history books you're reading or where you get your definitions, but they certainly aren't from factual sources. Try reading this: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu...
Just because I voted in a polling place between 7:00 and 8:00 AM doesn't mean they can locate MY vote from the dozen voting machines that were in that polling place. There were 11 other people voting along with me and they were supplanted by others during that same window of time I was voting, i.e., people came and went during my time. Sure, you could say these people voted during that period of time in that polling place (after the fact), but that still doesn't give me personal information about those people, nor does it tell me which vote during that time period is theirs. It could give you a ratio of votes for or against something, but it still doesn't tell you who voted which way.
The demographic info yes, but the researcher is looking at statistical anomalies in voting trends among those demographics, within their respective geolocations to find discrepancies that would possibly indicate voter fraud. Since the Republican party is so worried about voter fraud I don't see why a Republican SoS would NOT want to support research into possible voter fraud in his/her state. Seems more than a little hypocritical if not down right fishy.
Unless we know what his role in this startup is, it's hard to give really good advice. I'm pretty sure that he wasn't hired for his coding skills though, so any approach that spends a lot of time learning to program probably isn't a good use of his time. The question is, exactly what knowledge does he need to do his job? Maybe reading about some concepts like the "Mythical man-month" would be more useful than trying to grok introductory computer science?
This is where I was going with my comment. I don't think this accountant friend is the right person for the startup. I don't care what his role is, if he's interacting and directing programmers with no prior knowledge he's out of his depths. I don't care if this web platform he's working on was his idea or not, he's the wrong person for the role and needs to realize that before he wastes a lot of money and time.
I've been involved with several startup companies over the last 25 years and can say without hesitation that if you don't have the right people in the right roles you're doomed to fail. Fix that problem and you've got a fighting chance.
Another article here about a New Mexico court case that lost and lost on appeal. On precedent, I'd say the kid has a snowball's chance in Hell of winning.
Here's what the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health have to say. There was a single female individual in the NIH study that could honestly detect the initiation and termination of a field (power cycling of a device), but when one was already on (or not) she could detect nothing. Other than that, everyone seems to agree that it's mostly psychosomatic in nature and without extensive, double-blind testing the kid has very little chance of winning a diagnosis let alone the suit. I would go with something in the environment other than EMF radiation as a cause, if the little bugger is actually ill at all.