If only we had the ability to set up a parallel, encrypted, secure network that would be accessed by the Government-issued phones, laptops, and other gear. You know, someone could get RICH inventing a way to have parallel networks, one that is locked down hard, and one that is relatively open for other people to use!
Waves are as intermittent as the wind. I live about 200 meters from the beach, here in Ventura, CA. I can hear the surf when it's up. And it's quite often that it will go a week or two with less than 1m high waves. Now, we do get a good surfing season in (1-3m waves) a few times a year, but it's variable. Waves are as intermittent as the wind - which shouldn't be a surprise because waves are predominantly driven by wind. And I don't think anyone is arguing that wind is NOT intermittent.
As far as tides go, here's a good primer on how variable they are, and why you cannot just make predictions. You do need to have actual measurements to assist your predictions - and even then it's a guess. A good one, but still a guess. Ask any fisherman or harbor captain and they'll tell you the tides are variable and only somewhat predictable. Much like NOAA itself says. And it is intermittent (meaning not constant) as many, many, manysources confirm.
It's not surprising, because the energy from a fluid is related to the velocity (squared). A lower tide has less energy, and a 12 hour cycle time also makes the energy low - such that you want to trap the water behind a temporary dam, then let it all out at the greatest differential in height. But that, of course, creates zero energy for a majority of the time then a big burst of energy when the water is funneled through the turbines. Which - by definition - is intermittent. It may be repeatable, and it may even be predictable. But it is not constant, it is intermittent.
Tide levels change - you do know that, don't you (perhaps you're not a fisherman nor educated)? And waves kind of require wind - an intermittent source - to exist. Living right on the ocean, like I do, you see a big change in wave activity throughout the day, let alone throughout the year. Some days, the surf is great - others, the ocean is calm...
I see $37 billion in Federal funds in 2014 alone; that does not include State spending (California alone is close to a billion dollars). It's not capitalist, in that it's Government spending, but it definitely is big money and some who claim capitalist backgrounds (for example, Elon Musk/Tesla) love to suck up those dollars from the Government. More of a fascist inter-twining of business and Government...
Clinton is a fascist, who uses the trappings of the Left to control the State for her fascist ideology - We're going to take things from you for the greater good...
They need to do a better job, then? Because once you adjust for purchasing power of different currencies, Germany has about the most expensive electricity in the world (save for a few small island nations). Yes, it's renewable - it also is twice that of their nuclear powered neighbor, France. So kudos, Germany - you've proved that you can occasionally spike high in "renewables" generation for only twice the price of a sane, nuclear power approach!
But I would be very afraid of a projected $2 billion loss in 2017
Fully agree! Now, if it was a $3 billion loss, like Uber last year, then everything would be awesome and they'd be worth $60+ billion. This just tells me Evan doesn't know how to spend money fast enough!
Yes, cooked numbers and adding things in that apply to everyone. You do know the rich pay FICA and excise taxes and capital gains taxes and do not qualify for most of those exemptions that go to lower income people? The raw data says you're full of BS - it's only when you make "buts" and "ifs" and "estimates" that you can skew things the other way. The facts are: the rich pay the overwhelming amount of taxes in the US, and it is much higher than their share of income.
The top 10%'s share of U.S. income is over 50% of total income for the country.
Source? Because the link I provided shows otherwise. And it's taken from 20154 IRS tax returns (most up-to-date data). It shows the top 10% pay 71% of Federal income tax, but make about 47% of income. This one fallacious claim you started with renders the rest of your post essentially irrelevant.
Maybe California is using its much higher debt per capita to create the illusion of less poverty and wealth? I mean, you can live high on the hog on credit cards, but if you continuously spend more than you bring in - eventually that plan falls apart. And scholastically, Texas and California are essentially tied.
NOTE: I say this as a resident of California (Ventura, CA area). Beautiful place to live, but the State Government is seriously messed up (for example, firearm policy; much more liberal Washington State is shall issue and permissive about firearms and enjoys 1/3rd the gun murder rate as much more restrictive California), the State finances are in a shambles (it's all smoke and mirrors - hey, we have a $1 trillion shortfall in pension funding, which works out to about $30,000 per CA resident), and the State has ZERO plan on how to complete the "high speed" rail (I use quotes because it is nothing like HS rail in the rest of the world, being just over 160 kph) through the Tehachapi mountains - effectively cutting it off from LA. Thankfully I've economically relocated out of CA, so it's not too bad for me...
And then the other side loves to pass laws and regulations to force compliance with their personal beliefs... I'll take proselytizing and speech over regulations and laws any day, thank you.
No, it does not say that states have rights, only that the constitution was a limit on federal rights.
The 10th Amendment, in its entirety: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.[5]
Dumbass.
Yes, you are, indeed! Powers not delegated BY THE CONSTITUTION to the Federal Government are reserved to the States OR TO THE people. If it's not called out in the Constitution - it's for the States OR the people. Meaning the power can be for the States OR the people. Kind of hard to twist those words in the 10th Amendment, but you keep trying, AC, you keep trying!
It's actually a great reason why the Federal Government shouldn't. What with the 10th Amendment and all... This is a power clearly not explicitly defined to be for the Federal Government, hence it is explicitly reserved for the People or the States.
Listen to how a person from Shanghai and a person from Shenzhen both say "thank you". The person from Shenzhen will think the Shanghainese is saying "ten ten" and the Shanghainese will think the Shenzhen folk is saying "four four" very poorly. Local accents seriously damage the universality of a tonal language. Mandarin or not - it is harder for me to be understood in Guangzhou than in Shanghai (I learned Mandarin in Shanghai) - because of my accent.
Hi there, I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and have been doing business and extensive (30%+ annually) here for the last 15 years (currently in Guangzhou). I've never had a situation where I couldn't do business in English. Yes, I speak Mandarin - but that makes it easy at the shops, small restaurants, and grocery stores. Or on production lines. But business? If da laoban doesn't speak English, most assuredly his trusted associate does and business is conducted that way. Oh, and just to seal it - English education has basically been mandatory in China for the last 30 years - at least 3 years in elementary (and often 2 years in secondary) school. More people speak English in China than reside in Western Europe.
Every child in China has learned at least a few years of English since the mid 1980s, putting it somewhere around 500 million people who at least understand it somewhat - in one country alone. Add in India, and you easily have over a billion people who are somewhat capable in English right there. What India and China does basically dictates how "worldwide percentages go" and since English is THE chosen second language for those countries - it will continue to dominate the rest of the world. No matter what the French (or francophiles) desire.
Try to get around India or China speaking just French or German. Then try it with just English. It's orders of magnitude easier in English - heck, even the road signs are in Mandarin and English!
The wealthy - the top 10% - overwhelmingly carry the tax burden even though they make a minority of all income. Add in that capital gains taxes and luxury excise taxes are almost exclusively the domain of those top 10%, and they are easily funding more than half of all Government spending - while making less than half of the personal (not including corporate) income. But hey, you keep that income inequality mantra rolling!
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If only we had the ability to set up a parallel, encrypted, secure network that would be accessed by the Government-issued phones, laptops, and other gear. You know, someone could get RICH inventing a way to have parallel networks, one that is locked down hard, and one that is relatively open for other people to use!
No, because social CURRENT leads the societal POTENTIAL for change...
All is quiet on the Western Front...
Waves are as intermittent as the wind. I live about 200 meters from the beach, here in Ventura, CA. I can hear the surf when it's up. And it's quite often that it will go a week or two with less than 1m high waves. Now, we do get a good surfing season in (1-3m waves) a few times a year, but it's variable. Waves are as intermittent as the wind - which shouldn't be a surprise because waves are predominantly driven by wind. And I don't think anyone is arguing that wind is NOT intermittent.
As far as tides go, here's a good primer on how variable they are, and why you cannot just make predictions. You do need to have actual measurements to assist your predictions - and even then it's a guess. A good one, but still a guess. Ask any fisherman or harbor captain and they'll tell you the tides are variable and only somewhat predictable. Much like NOAA itself says. And it is intermittent (meaning not constant) as many, many, many sources confirm.
It's not surprising, because the energy from a fluid is related to the velocity (squared). A lower tide has less energy, and a 12 hour cycle time also makes the energy low - such that you want to trap the water behind a temporary dam, then let it all out at the greatest differential in height. But that, of course, creates zero energy for a majority of the time then a big burst of energy when the water is funneled through the turbines. Which - by definition - is intermittent. It may be repeatable, and it may even be predictable. But it is not constant, it is intermittent.
Tide levels change - you do know that, don't you (perhaps you're not a fisherman nor educated)? And waves kind of require wind - an intermittent source - to exist. Living right on the ocean, like I do, you see a big change in wave activity throughout the day, let alone throughout the year. Some days, the surf is great - others, the ocean is calm...
I see $37 billion in Federal funds in 2014 alone; that does not include State spending (California alone is close to a billion dollars). It's not capitalist, in that it's Government spending, but it definitely is big money and some who claim capitalist backgrounds (for example, Elon Musk/Tesla) love to suck up those dollars from the Government. More of a fascist inter-twining of business and Government...
Clinton is a fascist, who uses the trappings of the Left to control the State for her fascist ideology - We're going to take things from you for the greater good...
They need to do a better job, then? Because once you adjust for purchasing power of different currencies, Germany has about the most expensive electricity in the world (save for a few small island nations). Yes, it's renewable - it also is twice that of their nuclear powered neighbor, France. So kudos, Germany - you've proved that you can occasionally spike high in "renewables" generation for only twice the price of a sane, nuclear power approach!
But I would be very afraid of a projected $2 billion loss in 2017
Fully agree! Now, if it was a $3 billion loss, like Uber last year, then everything would be awesome and they'd be worth $60+ billion. This just tells me Evan doesn't know how to spend money fast enough!
Better than trying to tunnel his way out!
Who pays more in taxes than their share of the income? Case closed. Push your class warfare BS elsewhere...
Yes, cooked numbers and adding things in that apply to everyone. You do know the rich pay FICA and excise taxes and capital gains taxes and do not qualify for most of those exemptions that go to lower income people? The raw data says you're full of BS - it's only when you make "buts" and "ifs" and "estimates" that you can skew things the other way. The facts are: the rich pay the overwhelming amount of taxes in the US, and it is much higher than their share of income.
The top 10%'s share of U.S. income is over 50% of total income for the country.
Source? Because the link I provided shows otherwise. And it's taken from 20154 IRS tax returns (most up-to-date data). It shows the top 10% pay 71% of Federal income tax, but make about 47% of income. This one fallacious claim you started with renders the rest of your post essentially irrelevant.
Yep! Just goes to show we're over-taxed...
Maybe California is using its much higher debt per capita to create the illusion of less poverty and wealth? I mean, you can live high on the hog on credit cards, but if you continuously spend more than you bring in - eventually that plan falls apart. And scholastically, Texas and California are essentially tied.
NOTE: I say this as a resident of California (Ventura, CA area). Beautiful place to live, but the State Government is seriously messed up (for example, firearm policy; much more liberal Washington State is shall issue and permissive about firearms and enjoys 1/3rd the gun murder rate as much more restrictive California), the State finances are in a shambles (it's all smoke and mirrors - hey, we have a $1 trillion shortfall in pension funding, which works out to about $30,000 per CA resident), and the State has ZERO plan on how to complete the "high speed" rail (I use quotes because it is nothing like HS rail in the rest of the world, being just over 160 kph) through the Tehachapi mountains - effectively cutting it off from LA. Thankfully I've economically relocated out of CA, so it's not too bad for me...
And then the other side loves to pass laws and regulations to force compliance with their personal beliefs... I'll take proselytizing and speech over regulations and laws any day, thank you.
No, it does not say that states have rights, only that the constitution was a limit on federal rights.
The 10th Amendment, in its entirety: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.[5]
Dumbass.
Yes, you are, indeed! Powers not delegated BY THE CONSTITUTION to the Federal Government are reserved to the States OR TO THE people. If it's not called out in the Constitution - it's for the States OR the people. Meaning the power can be for the States OR the people. Kind of hard to twist those words in the 10th Amendment, but you keep trying, AC, you keep trying!
It's actually a great reason why the Federal Government shouldn't. What with the 10th Amendment and all... This is a power clearly not explicitly defined to be for the Federal Government, hence it is explicitly reserved for the People or the States.
Listen to how a person from Shanghai and a person from Shenzhen both say "thank you". The person from Shenzhen will think the Shanghainese is saying "ten ten" and the Shanghainese will think the Shenzhen folk is saying "four four" very poorly. Local accents seriously damage the universality of a tonal language. Mandarin or not - it is harder for me to be understood in Guangzhou than in Shanghai (I learned Mandarin in Shanghai) - because of my accent.
Hi there, I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and have been doing business and extensive (30%+ annually) here for the last 15 years (currently in Guangzhou). I've never had a situation where I couldn't do business in English. Yes, I speak Mandarin - but that makes it easy at the shops, small restaurants, and grocery stores. Or on production lines. But business? If da laoban doesn't speak English, most assuredly his trusted associate does and business is conducted that way. Oh, and just to seal it - English education has basically been mandatory in China for the last 30 years - at least 3 years in elementary (and often 2 years in secondary) school. More people speak English in China than reside in Western Europe.
Every child in China has learned at least a few years of English since the mid 1980s, putting it somewhere around 500 million people who at least understand it somewhat - in one country alone. Add in India, and you easily have over a billion people who are somewhat capable in English right there. What India and China does basically dictates how "worldwide percentages go" and since English is THE chosen second language for those countries - it will continue to dominate the rest of the world. No matter what the French (or francophiles) desire.
Try to get around India or China speaking just French or German. Then try it with just English. It's orders of magnitude easier in English - heck, even the road signs are in Mandarin and English!
German. The language of love if your fetish is hocking up a lung...
The wealthy - the top 10% - overwhelmingly carry the tax burden even though they make a minority of all income. Add in that capital gains taxes and luxury excise taxes are almost exclusively the domain of those top 10%, and they are easily funding more than half of all Government spending - while making less than half of the personal (not including corporate) income. But hey, you keep that income inequality mantra rolling!
What kind of llama - dromedary or bactrian?
There is room for improvement; after all, California is only number 4 in terms of tax burden as a percent of state income. We can beat CT, NJ, and NY!