A whole lot of people on this site aren't from the north in any respect... they clearly have a world view that doesn't know what 5 feet of snow looks like. Shame, because Boston and the North East got all that coverage recently for the massive snow storms, what good would solar have done in all that?
Duh, you simply use your solar panels to run heaters to keep the snow off the panels!
Surface area of the world is around 510 million square kilometers. Half of that is exposed to sunlight at any given time. That sunlight averages around 250W per square meter. Do the math. A 0.2% change in output is a change of about 127 TW (yes, teraWatts) per day. I'd call that a pretty significant given it's about 7 times more than the entire energy consumption of humanity (in all forms). Doesn't take much solar output change to totally swamp all of humanity. Seems that would be quite a change to the climate, doesn't it?
I beg to differ! The original poster should know that the Bay area isn't a center of power of the Illuminati, but the Bilderbergers and Freemasons. The Illuminati are a bit down the coast, in Santa Barbara...
I don't think it's the price; more people than ever have college degrees. Rather, it's the quality of the education they're receiving. Which says a LOT about those who put so much faith and trust in our higher education system.
It seems to me that in this case, it's the citizens of the country standing up and saying that THEY should not have to pay for investors losses. The investors have managed to privatize gains, and socialize loses to that there is no more risk in investing. You invest, you know that your investment carries a risk; don't want to shoulder the possible loss... don't invest.
So, the citizens didn't vote in the Government that took the loans on their behalf? The citizens didn't vote to join the EU and play by a known set of rules? The citizens didn't understand those loans were actually loans, and not gifts?
Fair enough. So why should anyone - ANYONE - loan another Euro to Greece? Flush the current loans down the toilet, call it even - and survive on your own. No more loans. Sound fair?
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
Wouldn't the financial pain of suddenly paying 3X the taxes be worse, to the average Greek, as the austerity plans the EU wanted to see? Getting blood either way requires about the same level of pain.
Because the Greeks haven't tried austerity. Try raising the retirement age up to that of Germany or the US (in the mid 60s). That alone would save tens of billions of dollars, and allow Greece to make their payments.
It seems to me, in this case, it's the communist-rich Syriza party and their supporters getting in bed together to take money from private industry and other Governments - then saying "screw you, you fascists" as they try to walk away from their debts. That's not fascism - that's communism at best (and outright theft at worst).
The Syriza Party includes anti-capitalists, Marxist–Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, and Eurocommunist groups. If that's not a coalition with strong communist leanings - what is?
Because they're cramped, have poor ergonomics, stupid non-overridable defaults (like it always defaults to 8A charge, and if you want 12A @ 110VAC you HAVE to set it EVERY SINGLE TIME, no way to save the setting), and has pretty poor QC. This is from a coworker I've had over the last 2 years who can't wait for the lease to end and he'll move to something else. Yes, it's saving him some cash over gas, but it's just not worth the hassle.
Before the Civil War they said freeing the slaves would ruin the economy. The US had to free them because it was a moral imperative. The war cost us 5% of the US population in casualties. The sum total of the monetary value of all slaves at the start of the civil war was roughly one trillion dollars in today's dollars. The slaves were freed and the US became the world's greatest economic power as a result.
Really? The US didn't become the number one economy until 1916 - about the time that most of the European powers (specifically, the UK - which was the biggest economy before the US stepped into that role) were deep into World War I. World War II pretty much cemented our position as the rest of the first world (and much of the 2nd) was bombed and broken. I don't think it was the slaves that made us the greatest economic power, but rather the fact we have two large bodies of water keeping us relatively safe from wars in Europe and Asia.
And yet somehow every year since Eisenhower the national debt has increased. I guess you can have a budget surplus AND increase your debt if you redefine a lot of expenditures so they're no longer budgetary items...
The difference is the shooting in Sydney was one, isolated incident. Compare that incident to the daily shootings in the U.S.
The vast majority of those shootings happen:
A. in cities/States where private ownership of firearms is highly restricted;
B. by people who are legally barred (for other reasons - age, criminal record, etc.) from possessing firearms
So how does adding further restrictions help this situation? We have people illegally possessing firearms, in jurisdictions which ban those same firearms, using them to commit crimes. Does another law eliminate this from happening?
Is it the thing that owned, or how it's used that makes it socially irresponsible? Perhaps rather than banning an inanimate object, we should hold those who misuse them to stronger consequences. After all, which kills more random non-combatants annually - howitzers or cars?
Easy solution - add the extra second at 1 second after midnight on the last Sunday of June. No exchanges are open anywhere in the world at that time - so there's no advantage that 1 second gives anyone.
Agree 100%. It's all a political game so some can feel good about themselves while the State as a whole slowly dies of dehydration. But hey, on the plus side, we'll get a $70 billion train that will whisk us from Bakersfield to Fresno in just 4 hours!
You're going to upset some desert snail-darter lizard or something, and since they might have a range of [$insert_insane_value_here] miles we can't do ANYTHING in the desert. It's for the children, don't you know! After all, we're flushing 4 billion gallons - enough for the ANNUAL needs of 175,000 people - so that 6 steelhead could swim downstream.
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I will be very disappointed if they make the same armature mistakes they made with that movie.
Armature mistakes? I think you want the DC vs. AC thread, not the D&D thread...
A whole lot of people on this site aren't from the north in any respect... they clearly have a world view that doesn't know what 5 feet of snow looks like. Shame, because Boston and the North East got all that coverage recently for the massive snow storms, what good would solar have done in all that?
Duh, you simply use your solar panels to run heaters to keep the snow off the panels!
Oh wait...
That would have been a VERY tall iceberg!
Based upon performance at the box office, I think Kevin Costner was the "Lone Postman"...
Surface area of the world is around 510 million square kilometers. Half of that is exposed to sunlight at any given time. That sunlight averages around 250W per square meter. Do the math. A 0.2% change in output is a change of about 127 TW (yes, teraWatts) per day. I'd call that a pretty significant given it's about 7 times more than the entire energy consumption of humanity (in all forms). Doesn't take much solar output change to totally swamp all of humanity. Seems that would be quite a change to the climate, doesn't it?
I beg to differ! The original poster should know that the Bay area isn't a center of power of the Illuminati, but the Bilderbergers and Freemasons. The Illuminati are a bit down the coast, in Santa Barbara...
I don't think it's the price; more people than ever have college degrees. Rather, it's the quality of the education they're receiving. Which says a LOT about those who put so much faith and trust in our higher education system.
It seems to me that in this case, it's the citizens of the country standing up and saying that THEY should not have to pay for investors losses. The investors have managed to privatize gains, and socialize loses to that there is no more risk in investing. You invest, you know that your investment carries a risk; don't want to shoulder the possible loss... don't invest.
So, the citizens didn't vote in the Government that took the loans on their behalf? The citizens didn't vote to join the EU and play by a known set of rules? The citizens didn't understand those loans were actually loans, and not gifts?
Fair enough. So why should anyone - ANYONE - loan another Euro to Greece? Flush the current loans down the toilet, call it even - and survive on your own. No more loans. Sound fair?
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
Wouldn't the financial pain of suddenly paying 3X the taxes be worse, to the average Greek, as the austerity plans the EU wanted to see? Getting blood either way requires about the same level of pain.
Because the Greeks haven't tried austerity. Try raising the retirement age up to that of Germany or the US (in the mid 60s). That alone would save tens of billions of dollars, and allow Greece to make their payments.
It seems to me, in this case, it's the communist-rich Syriza party and their supporters getting in bed together to take money from private industry and other Governments - then saying "screw you, you fascists" as they try to walk away from their debts. That's not fascism - that's communism at best (and outright theft at worst).
The Syriza Party includes anti-capitalists, Marxist–Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, and Eurocommunist groups. If that's not a coalition with strong communist leanings - what is?
The population of Germany was about 10 times that of Greece. The typical German got about 40% of the typical Greek.
And we Americans financed the whole thing. You're welcome.
You're metadata-editing wrong.
My Rec Tec Grill has that, and it does a great job. I love to mix cherry and mesquite to do my slow-smoked brisket (12-14 hours at 200 deg F).
Because they're cramped, have poor ergonomics, stupid non-overridable defaults (like it always defaults to 8A charge, and if you want 12A @ 110VAC you HAVE to set it EVERY SINGLE TIME, no way to save the setting), and has pretty poor QC. This is from a coworker I've had over the last 2 years who can't wait for the lease to end and he'll move to something else. Yes, it's saving him some cash over gas, but it's just not worth the hassle.
Before the Civil War they said freeing the slaves would ruin the economy. The US had to free them because it was a moral imperative. The war cost us 5% of the US population in casualties. The sum total of the monetary value of all slaves at the start of the civil war was roughly one trillion dollars in today's dollars. The slaves were freed and the US became the world's greatest economic power as a result.
Really? The US didn't become the number one economy until 1916 - about the time that most of the European powers (specifically, the UK - which was the biggest economy before the US stepped into that role) were deep into World War I. World War II pretty much cemented our position as the rest of the first world (and much of the 2nd) was bombed and broken. I don't think it was the slaves that made us the greatest economic power, but rather the fact we have two large bodies of water keeping us relatively safe from wars in Europe and Asia.
And yet somehow every year since Eisenhower the national debt has increased. I guess you can have a budget surplus AND increase your debt if you redefine a lot of expenditures so they're no longer budgetary items...
The difference is the shooting in Sydney was one, isolated incident. Compare that incident to the daily shootings in the U.S.
The vast majority of those shootings happen:
A. in cities/States where private ownership of firearms is highly restricted;
B. by people who are legally barred (for other reasons - age, criminal record, etc.) from possessing firearms
So how does adding further restrictions help this situation? We have people illegally possessing firearms, in jurisdictions which ban those same firearms, using them to commit crimes. Does another law eliminate this from happening?
Is it the thing that owned, or how it's used that makes it socially irresponsible? Perhaps rather than banning an inanimate object, we should hold those who misuse them to stronger consequences. After all, which kills more random non-combatants annually - howitzers or cars?
Easy solution - add the extra second at 1 second after midnight on the last Sunday of June. No exchanges are open anywhere in the world at that time - so there's no advantage that 1 second gives anyone.
So what you're saying is we need to create a new language, one that could be "write once, run everywhere" capable...
Agree 100%. It's all a political game so some can feel good about themselves while the State as a whole slowly dies of dehydration. But hey, on the plus side, we'll get a $70 billion train that will whisk us from Bakersfield to Fresno in just 4 hours!
You're going to upset some desert snail-darter lizard or something, and since they might have a range of [$insert_insane_value_here] miles we can't do ANYTHING in the desert. It's for the children, don't you know! After all, we're flushing 4 billion gallons - enough for the ANNUAL needs of 175,000 people - so that 6 steelhead could swim downstream.