Do you have any evidence to back up your wild assertion?
Is there no chance that they simply have developed better infrastructure and don't have to comply with all the regulations and red tape that we have, so their cost is simply less? Could panel prices not simply be falling due to increased production efficiency, advancing technology, and competition between legitimate producers?
Nah, better to demonize the yellow menace. All the better for the war we are bound to start with them to "get us out of" our depression.
Cooperation is a part of competition. People form alliances all the time. The baker does not compete with the plumber. Rather they are allied. Bakers compete with bakers, and plumbers compete with plumbers, and that is good because if they didn't, prices for bread would be sky high, and plumbers would never finish their jobs to the client's satisfaction.
Amen, brother. Too bad regulations are such that much of that can't be done legally in the West. You can't even build Earthships without wading through a sea of red tape. Abundant life for all is available, but for the fools that stand in the way.
Here's a hint--irresponsible people don't comply with building codes anyways. If they didn't have those building codes, such "shacks" could be mass produced cheaply by professionals, and they could be inspected in the factory rather than at the building site. The net would be a safer building for poor people.
But we would rather that they live in cardboard boxes under overpasses where they can be hassled by police to "move along" at 3am.
So what? It also goes INTO the air a lot more rapidly than CO2! If you want to actually abate global warming, all you have to do is take some water out of the atmosphere, or make some clouds (or both). It is a LOT easier than banning humans from breathing or otherwise going about their daily business.
In my experience, those with a lot of land are not serviced by a lot of roads, and poor neighborhoods employ the police much more than the rich neighborhoods.
The fact is that old people on fixed incomes have their homes taken from them because they can't afford to pay property taxes. Property taxes mean there is no such thing as ownership of land, which is utterly disgusting.
No-one ever thinks about the consequences of their interventions in the free market, and then they blame those consequences on the market, rather than their hamfisted interventions.
The "rich" also have the ability to shut down operations to get into the lower tax bracket, or to relocate overseas.
The "rich" are not your slaves. But neither should you be theirs. All corporate welfare should be immediately eliminated. That would save much more money than this foolish crusade.
The alternative minimum tax was passed with similar populist gusto. It was not linked to inflation. Now "normal" people well within the middle class are having to struggle to avoid paying it. I guarantee that within our lifetimes, we will all be millionaires, and many of us will be subjected to this or similar taxes, much to our dismay and ultimate impoverishment.
Tax brackets should probably be based on what percentile you fall into instead. If you are in the top 1%, you pay X%, if you are in the bottom 25%, you pay nothing, if you fall between you pay some amount less than X%.
The people at the top laugh at us as they, like jujitsu masters, redirect our populist rage back at the poor and the middle class as our nation crumbles around us. But we just CAN'T cut funding for our military empire. NO sir. Simply not acceptable.
This appears to simply be an input device that is rolled out over an existing screen. Kind of neat, but not exactly worldchanging, and quite far from "transforming ANY surface into a touchscreen device". It might be able to record inputs, but the user would get no feedback without a screen or something like that.
If this was a DISPLAY that thin, then this would be groundbreaking.
Yup. I run my laptop off of a solar panel I have rigged up in my front yard. I really need to get another one and a larger battery, though, as I have to switch it back to grid power a couple of hours after sundown.
Uh-huh. How about self-replicating "bubbles"? The membrane is just a tiny part of the puzzle. The rest has already been solved: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762
Or are you ignorant as to what the definition of "life" is?
You do realize that the "bees" in that study weren't "bees" as most people understand them (ie honey bees), right? Honey bee workers CAN'T reproduce. No need to be an egotistical dick about it even if they could.
Right, so surely the constant emission of water by all of industrialized society around the world has NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER. Except that water has much more effect than CO2, but no-one wants to USE IT to remediate the supposed effects of increase CO2 emissions. You want to reduce global warming? Continuously take some H2O out of the air. It's as simple as that. And you can use that water for important things like agriculture, or industrial uses. Or just dump it in the river. It's not toxic, after all.
I love how the mod system works around here. Propose a simple, non-quadrillion dollar solution to a "problem" dreamt up by those seeking to enrich themselves off the backs of the rest of society, and get hissed at and called a troll, and dumb arguments are bandied about as though they were fact.
The fact is that the TOTAL amount of CO2 emitted forces warming less than the day to day variance of atmospheric water. If you are really so damn worried about CO2, why do you have to shut down advanced society? Just grab some water out of the air. Problem fucking solved. If it got to the point where we couldn't afford to do that, then guess what? We will be in a recession so deep that CO2 output falls all on its own.
Just use hydrogen. If they burn up, big deal, they just produce more water. These aren't being used to move people, and (presumably) it won't be done over a populated area.
Exactly. Water is a much larger "problem". If they want to "fix" global "warming" then they should demand installation of reflux devices on smokestacks and cars to catch the water vapor coming out. That, in addition to being more practical than halting commerce, is also much more effective and IMMEDIATE in impact. In fact, you could quite possibly use variable reflux condensers to actually control a good portion of the weather if you had enough of them and they could be centrally controlled.
Exactly. The problems come when the government tells us what we can and can't do, and by tariff and subsidy makes economical activities non-profitable, and non-economical activities profitable, then we see the economy go down the drain as real production decreases. This causes poverty and starvation among marginal populations.
If you are European, look at your former colonies which are much less wealthy than you. They ARE starving because the goods they import from you have increased in price. You have a very self centered world view. YOU aren't starving, therefore the policies you have don't cause starvation. Great way to think there.
I'm sure the old death cult priests among the Mayans and Aztecs said the same thing when draughts happened. They always wanted more power, and more blood for their temples. And here you are, in the MIDST of famine, saying you want to raise food prices. Guess that's more blood for your temple.
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Do you have any evidence to back up your wild assertion?
Is there no chance that they simply have developed better infrastructure and don't have to comply with all the regulations and red tape that we have, so their cost is simply less? Could panel prices not simply be falling due to increased production efficiency, advancing technology, and competition between legitimate producers?
Nah, better to demonize the yellow menace. All the better for the war we are bound to start with them to "get us out of" our depression.
Cooperation is a part of competition. People form alliances all the time. The baker does not compete with the plumber. Rather they are allied. Bakers compete with bakers, and plumbers compete with plumbers, and that is good because if they didn't, prices for bread would be sky high, and plumbers would never finish their jobs to the client's satisfaction.
Amen, brother. Too bad regulations are such that much of that can't be done legally in the West. You can't even build Earthships without wading through a sea of red tape. Abundant life for all is available, but for the fools that stand in the way.
Here's a hint--irresponsible people don't comply with building codes anyways. If they didn't have those building codes, such "shacks" could be mass produced cheaply by professionals, and they could be inspected in the factory rather than at the building site. The net would be a safer building for poor people.
But we would rather that they live in cardboard boxes under overpasses where they can be hassled by police to "move along" at 3am.
And yet here we are. The road to hell is paved with people who let others think for them.
So what? It also goes INTO the air a lot more rapidly than CO2! If you want to actually abate global warming, all you have to do is take some water out of the atmosphere, or make some clouds (or both). It is a LOT easier than banning humans from breathing or otherwise going about their daily business.
How many hundred year droughts can you spot in that chart?
lol
In my experience, those with a lot of land are not serviced by a lot of roads, and poor neighborhoods employ the police much more than the rich neighborhoods.
The fact is that old people on fixed incomes have their homes taken from them because they can't afford to pay property taxes. Property taxes mean there is no such thing as ownership of land, which is utterly disgusting.
No-one ever thinks about the consequences of their interventions in the free market, and then they blame those consequences on the market, rather than their hamfisted interventions.
The "rich" also have the ability to shut down operations to get into the lower tax bracket, or to relocate overseas.
The "rich" are not your slaves. But neither should you be theirs. All corporate welfare should be immediately eliminated. That would save much more money than this foolish crusade.
The alternative minimum tax was passed with similar populist gusto. It was not linked to inflation. Now "normal" people well within the middle class are having to struggle to avoid paying it. I guarantee that within our lifetimes, we will all be millionaires, and many of us will be subjected to this or similar taxes, much to our dismay and ultimate impoverishment.
Tax brackets should probably be based on what percentile you fall into instead. If you are in the top 1%, you pay X%, if you are in the bottom 25%, you pay nothing, if you fall between you pay some amount less than X%.
The people at the top laugh at us as they, like jujitsu masters, redirect our populist rage back at the poor and the middle class as our nation crumbles around us. But we just CAN'T cut funding for our military empire. NO sir. Simply not acceptable.
This appears to simply be an input device that is rolled out over an existing screen. Kind of neat, but not exactly worldchanging, and quite far from "transforming ANY surface into a touchscreen device". It might be able to record inputs, but the user would get no feedback without a screen or something like that.
If this was a DISPLAY that thin, then this would be groundbreaking.
Yup. I run my laptop off of a solar panel I have rigged up in my front yard. I really need to get another one and a larger battery, though, as I have to switch it back to grid power a couple of hours after sundown.
Uh-huh. How about self-replicating "bubbles"? The membrane is just a tiny part of the puzzle. The rest has already been solved: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762
Or are you ignorant as to what the definition of "life" is?
You are behind the times: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10132762
You do realize that the "bees" in that study weren't "bees" as most people understand them (ie honey bees), right? Honey bee workers CAN'T reproduce. No need to be an egotistical dick about it even if they could.
Us? lol, so you are one of the ultra-biased climate scientists? No wonder you are so butthurt and utterly immune to any form of logical discourse.
"Mythical" funding? Just who signs your paychecks there, Nancy?
Right, so surely the constant emission of water by all of industrialized society around the world has NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER. Except that water has much more effect than CO2, but no-one wants to USE IT to remediate the supposed effects of increase CO2 emissions. You want to reduce global warming? Continuously take some H2O out of the air. It's as simple as that. And you can use that water for important things like agriculture, or industrial uses. Or just dump it in the river. It's not toxic, after all.
I love how the mod system works around here. Propose a simple, non-quadrillion dollar solution to a "problem" dreamt up by those seeking to enrich themselves off the backs of the rest of society, and get hissed at and called a troll, and dumb arguments are bandied about as though they were fact.
The fact is that the TOTAL amount of CO2 emitted forces warming less than the day to day variance of atmospheric water. If you are really so damn worried about CO2, why do you have to shut down advanced society? Just grab some water out of the air. Problem fucking solved. If it got to the point where we couldn't afford to do that, then guess what? We will be in a recession so deep that CO2 output falls all on its own.
Just use hydrogen. If they burn up, big deal, they just produce more water. These aren't being used to move people, and (presumably) it won't be done over a populated area.
You first. Start by turning off your computer, permanently.
Exactly. Water is a much larger "problem". If they want to "fix" global "warming" then they should demand installation of reflux devices on smokestacks and cars to catch the water vapor coming out. That, in addition to being more practical than halting commerce, is also much more effective and IMMEDIATE in impact. In fact, you could quite possibly use variable reflux condensers to actually control a good portion of the weather if you had enough of them and they could be centrally controlled.
Exactly. The problems come when the government tells us what we can and can't do, and by tariff and subsidy makes economical activities non-profitable, and non-economical activities profitable, then we see the economy go down the drain as real production decreases. This causes poverty and starvation among marginal populations.
What, exactly, do you think poverty is?
Was it an accident?
Then you got cancer on purpose! No coverage for you!
Insurance agents?
If you are European, look at your former colonies which are much less wealthy than you. They ARE starving because the goods they import from you have increased in price. You have a very self centered world view. YOU aren't starving, therefore the policies you have don't cause starvation. Great way to think there.
I'm sure the old death cult priests among the Mayans and Aztecs said the same thing when draughts happened. They always wanted more power, and more blood for their temples. And here you are, in the MIDST of famine, saying you want to raise food prices. Guess that's more blood for your temple.