There is no such thing as a "corporate anarchist". Corporations are creations of the state. Without a state, there could be no corporations. A corporation is called a corporation rather than a company because the owners are shielded by government command from any and all liability for the actions of the corporation they own. This allows/FORCES the corporation to act in a sociopathic manner, extracting the absolute maximum amount of money for shareholders, whether in violation of the law or otherwise (the costs associated with violating the law are merely a variable on their balance sheet).
Further, your asinine assertion that those buying the liberty dollars is laughable in the face of a current spot price of $36+ for an ounce of silver. This was a much better investment than buying the DOW at any point up through 1999 (and most certainly after as well), given that we are about even with the 1999 value, even in the face of a 2-fold debasement in the dollar since then.
But hey, if you hate the principles that this nation was founded on so much, might I suggest you and your statist pals flee for your choice of socialist utopias around the world? You have destroyed our freedoms and our economy with your "good intentions".
Funny how you are so pissy about it being a pyramid scheme when you go on to describe a pyramid scheme to a T.
But then, that's about all any form of fiat currency is--a pyramid scheme. It goes from those with the printing press to the government to the corporations to the businesses to you. You pay the most to the inflation tax demons, while those higher up the pyramid gain purchasing power by getting quicker access to the freshly printed money.
This is why no fiat currency has ever lasted more than about 60 years (the Flying Money of the Yuan dynasty in China, though they had three different issues, all ended with hyperinflation, the longest lasting of their currency regimes was about 60 years), with the mean being about 20 years, and the average being about 30 years. The dollar has been full fiat for 41 years now.
Also, taxing is VERY relevant, considering that if there is a floating exchange rate, you will be taxed on any "gain" that comes from the increase in value of your currency relative to the dollar. Also taxed is any situation where the dollar loses value while your currency stays the same. They aren't taxing you on more, they are taxing you on the same, and now you can't even buy as much as you had to begin with. This is why gold doesn't circulate as currency alongside dollars. It is treated rather brutally by the tax code (taxed as a collectable--even worse than using foreign currency, which is taxes as capital gains).
A democracy is where two wolves and a sheep vote on what to eat for dinner. A republic is where a thousand sheep vote on which wolves get to vote on what to eat for dinner.
Wow, did you even read the thread? Hot water can keep a house warm? Are you high? What, you want to ship hot water from the desert to heat people's homes? We are talking about producing electricity here.
The impact of A power plant is small, especially a nuclear, coal, or oil burning one. The impact of the 10,000 square miles of solar thermal power plants required to fuel the US is ENORMOUS.
Yes, solar thermal takes about 100X as much material to produce the same amount of energy. The heat stored by water overnight is worthless, because you by definition can only extract useful work by converting liquid water to steam. You can only do that by adding energy. If you want to continue generating energy overnight, you have to use molten sodium.
I don't understand how a person can fail to tell the difference between 10,000 square miles of thermal solar and ten thousand nuclear plants that cover maybe 20 square miles. With so so very many miles of energy production, which must by definition will be in sparsely populated areas, you are going to experience a LOT of fires. But hey, as long as there's no "radioactivity", right? Tell me, when, in the history of the Earth, has there EVER been an accident while delivering fuel to a nuclear facility? I've certainly never heard of one.
A watt is a unit of power, a watt hour is a unit of work. The goal is $1/W which means that a 1000 W system, which produces ~8KWh per day (more further south), only costs $1000, and would pay for itself in about three years, making it economically viable for most people.
Uhh, having them distributed means they will be smaller. They might as well attack the coal plants we have now.
Further, no truck bomb is going to be able to breach an underground facility, which is generally what I have seen being called for, especially with the micronuclear reactors designed by Hitachi, which are designed to provide power to 1000 households for 50 years with no maintenance, and are so cheap that you could literally throw them away when you are done (they only cost a few million each, installed, IIRC). And with the intrinsically safe pebble bed reactors, even if the fuel was spilled in the street, you would just need guys in suits to go pick them up with tongs. The pebbles have radiation shielding built in, and physically can't get close enough together to melt down. You would have to remove the shell from each and every one to cause a problem.
Also, I don't know where you seem to get this idea that China is some sort of homogeneous culture. They have more Arabs than we do, many of which are fighting for independence and want an Islamic state.
Basically, your ideas are laughable excuses not to go with nuclear.
Anyone and everyone, once we get rid the literally impossible to overcome regulations that were imposed on new construction in the industry after 3 mile island. Hell, I'd go in with the neighbors to order one of those self-sustaining nuclear reactors from Japan where the only maintenance required is to change out the fuel once every 50 years. The regulations prevent me from hiring these experts who have set up such systems around the world without problem.
Keep up with the technology. Thorium produces short lived (10-15 years) waste that can be stored on site, and, in fact, can and HAS been designed to be 100% safe (pebble bed reactors, anyone?), where they physically CAN'T melt down.
You SAY that solar thermal doesn't produce a lot of waste, but you have clearly never been to a smelting operation, nor have you considered the energy input it takes to produce the hundreds of thousands of miles of tubing and mirrors that would have to be purpose made for such plants, or the environmental effect they would have on the NOT lifeless deserts you people want to destroy with them.
Further, you can't use WATER to store the energy--you can barely store heat in water. How are you planning to heat water to a boil using the energy stored in water? If you want it to produce energy overnight you have to use molten sodium. There's an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. You are talking about distributing little pockets of 10,000 degree heat all around the place, rathe than having a few,centralized, large, easily controlled pockets of 3,000 degree heat that won't melt much more than ice, certainly not steel and concrete.
It sounds to me like the government took control of the resources instead of allowing individual landowners to sell thier mineral rights. The government then became corrupted by all the funds.
The US had PLENTY of resources, and never really had problems, because we respected individual property rights (but not communal property rights, so don't even try to bring up the "oh we killed the indians" meme). Those who homesteaded the land got the mineral rights, sold them, were compensated, and invested that money in infrastructure and capital projects that have provided dividends right up to modern day. If the Nauru government had stayed out of it, the same thing would have happened there. This is the peril of communism, and has been repeated in many resource rich countries.
You don't seem to understand that if you don't pay for it yourself, they subsidies will cost you 50% more at least, as you not only have to pay the taxes to run the train, but for the bureaucrats who distribute the subsidy and prevent fraud. Not to mention the fraud itself.
Multiply that times tens of thousands of subsidies, and you wonder why western economies are all floundering?
They come here for post graduate education because it is prestigious. They then go right back to China to get jobs. The bad part is that they also get jobs at their own universities, so eventually, they will consider their own universities to be as good as or better than ours, at which point the US loses its last strain of relevance on the world stage.
On SigmaAldrich, the price is a little more than twice that of silicon dioxide of similar purity (optical grade). Increased production volumes are likely to greatly reduce the price.
Note that it is RARELY FOUND IN NATURE, and Zaire is one of the places it is found. It is, of course, incredibly simple to manufacture. Just combine zinc with selenium. The reaction is highly exothermic, so once you add a little heat to get it started, it will power itself to completion.
Sounds hazardous, does it? So does dihydrogen monoxide.
Zinc Selenide is no more hazardous than dirt. It is not soluble in water, and as such, can't enter the bloodstream, unless you are stuffing gobs of the stuff down your throat, and even then its unlikely.
How about we actually, you know, think about these things rather than just dismissing them because they "sound hazardous"?
Uhhh, zinc selenide is neither of those things. It is not soluble in water, so it is not toxic. The feedstock is about twice the price right now, but that will come down with increased production volume.
You're a trusting soul. As a reward for this trust, I'm going to give you the deal of a lifetime on a bridge. I'll even throw in some Arizona beachfront property.
Revolutions have been justifiably started over much less than this. These people are drunk with power, and if they can not be got out by "law", then by God, they must be got out by natural law. If authorities won't do it, lynch mobs will have to do.
Uhhh, no. Do you consider anyone who makes a tool that you use your leader? Do you consider a person from your office who announces they are going to lunch down the street, and you decide to go as well your leader? If someone blew up the factory that produces your hammers, would you just give up on the concept of the hammer?
You also drastically underestimate their numbers. They are hundreds of thousands, even if they don't all participate in raids.
Sorry kids, you don't really know what you're talking about.
You confuse "Darwinism" and "the food chain". These are separate concepts.
Your post merely shows that you don't understand Anonymous. Everyone and no-one is a leader there. It's just a bunch of individuals, doing or not doing as they like, No orders, no e-penis, no nothing.
Actually, come to think of it, it's like a bunch of bees that each have their own colony. When one stings, others are likely to follow up, until the victim dies, runs away, or concedes whatever point the original attacker wanted. Or until they get bored. Also, they can sting multiple times, and often do it just for fun. Even if they could easily elucidate the identities of each and every attacker, do you really think anyone has the ability to go out and smash each individual hive? I sure don't. Instead, they try to make an example of a few, as they are doing here, and try to use fear to stop the others. Sometimes it works (more or less, don't mess with football), other times it doesn't.
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There is no such thing as a "corporate anarchist". Corporations are creations of the state. Without a state, there could be no corporations. A corporation is called a corporation rather than a company because the owners are shielded by government command from any and all liability for the actions of the corporation they own. This allows/FORCES the corporation to act in a sociopathic manner, extracting the absolute maximum amount of money for shareholders, whether in violation of the law or otherwise (the costs associated with violating the law are merely a variable on their balance sheet).
Further, your asinine assertion that those buying the liberty dollars is laughable in the face of a current spot price of $36+ for an ounce of silver. This was a much better investment than buying the DOW at any point up through 1999 (and most certainly after as well), given that we are about even with the 1999 value, even in the face of a 2-fold debasement in the dollar since then.
But hey, if you hate the principles that this nation was founded on so much, might I suggest you and your statist pals flee for your choice of socialist utopias around the world? You have destroyed our freedoms and our economy with your "good intentions".
Funny how you are so pissy about it being a pyramid scheme when you go on to describe a pyramid scheme to a T.
But then, that's about all any form of fiat currency is--a pyramid scheme. It goes from those with the printing press to the government to the corporations to the businesses to you. You pay the most to the inflation tax demons, while those higher up the pyramid gain purchasing power by getting quicker access to the freshly printed money.
This is why no fiat currency has ever lasted more than about 60 years (the Flying Money of the Yuan dynasty in China, though they had three different issues, all ended with hyperinflation, the longest lasting of their currency regimes was about 60 years), with the mean being about 20 years, and the average being about 30 years. The dollar has been full fiat for 41 years now.
Also, taxing is VERY relevant, considering that if there is a floating exchange rate, you will be taxed on any "gain" that comes from the increase in value of your currency relative to the dollar. Also taxed is any situation where the dollar loses value while your currency stays the same. They aren't taxing you on more, they are taxing you on the same, and now you can't even buy as much as you had to begin with. This is why gold doesn't circulate as currency alongside dollars. It is treated rather brutally by the tax code (taxed as a collectable--even worse than using foreign currency, which is taxes as capital gains).
A democracy is where two wolves and a sheep vote on what to eat for dinner. A republic is where a thousand sheep vote on which wolves get to vote on what to eat for dinner.
Wow, did you even read the thread? Hot water can keep a house warm? Are you high? What, you want to ship hot water from the desert to heat people's homes? We are talking about producing electricity here.
I do live in a desert.
The impact of A power plant is small, especially a nuclear, coal, or oil burning one. The impact of the 10,000 square miles of solar thermal power plants required to fuel the US is ENORMOUS.
Ok, design me a reactor that extracts useful energy from non-boiling water.
Aircraft carriers use BOILING water from a NUCLEAR reactor.
Amazing number of dim bulbs around here hating on nuclear energy.
Yes, solar thermal takes about 100X as much material to produce the same amount of energy. The heat stored by water overnight is worthless, because you by definition can only extract useful work by converting liquid water to steam. You can only do that by adding energy. If you want to continue generating energy overnight, you have to use molten sodium.
I don't understand how a person can fail to tell the difference between 10,000 square miles of thermal solar and ten thousand nuclear plants that cover maybe 20 square miles. With so so very many miles of energy production, which must by definition will be in sparsely populated areas, you are going to experience a LOT of fires. But hey, as long as there's no "radioactivity", right? Tell me, when, in the history of the Earth, has there EVER been an accident while delivering fuel to a nuclear facility? I've certainly never heard of one.
A watt is a unit of power, a watt hour is a unit of work. The goal is $1/W which means that a 1000 W system, which produces ~8KWh per day (more further south), only costs $1000, and would pay for itself in about three years, making it economically viable for most people.
Or they could, you know, arm themselves.
It's not like the world has never had pirates before. There is a reason all seafaring civilizations in history have had a merchant marine force.
Uhh, having them distributed means they will be smaller. They might as well attack the coal plants we have now.
Further, no truck bomb is going to be able to breach an underground facility, which is generally what I have seen being called for, especially with the micronuclear reactors designed by Hitachi, which are designed to provide power to 1000 households for 50 years with no maintenance, and are so cheap that you could literally throw them away when you are done (they only cost a few million each, installed, IIRC). And with the intrinsically safe pebble bed reactors, even if the fuel was spilled in the street, you would just need guys in suits to go pick them up with tongs. The pebbles have radiation shielding built in, and physically can't get close enough together to melt down. You would have to remove the shell from each and every one to cause a problem.
Also, I don't know where you seem to get this idea that China is some sort of homogeneous culture. They have more Arabs than we do, many of which are fighting for independence and want an Islamic state.
Basically, your ideas are laughable excuses not to go with nuclear.
Call us back in two years and tell us how much better you are doing thanks to your mixed markets.
That is, assuming there is a functional telephone in either of our countries.
Anyone and everyone, once we get rid the literally impossible to overcome regulations that were imposed on new construction in the industry after 3 mile island. Hell, I'd go in with the neighbors to order one of those self-sustaining nuclear reactors from Japan where the only maintenance required is to change out the fuel once every 50 years. The regulations prevent me from hiring these experts who have set up such systems around the world without problem.
Keep up with the technology. Thorium produces short lived (10-15 years) waste that can be stored on site, and, in fact, can and HAS been designed to be 100% safe (pebble bed reactors, anyone?), where they physically CAN'T melt down.
You SAY that solar thermal doesn't produce a lot of waste, but you have clearly never been to a smelting operation, nor have you considered the energy input it takes to produce the hundreds of thousands of miles of tubing and mirrors that would have to be purpose made for such plants, or the environmental effect they would have on the NOT lifeless deserts you people want to destroy with them.
Further, you can't use WATER to store the energy--you can barely store heat in water. How are you planning to heat water to a boil using the energy stored in water? If you want it to produce energy overnight you have to use molten sodium. There's an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. You are talking about distributing little pockets of 10,000 degree heat all around the place, rathe than having a few,centralized, large, easily controlled pockets of 3,000 degree heat that won't melt much more than ice, certainly not steel and concrete.
It sounds to me like the government took control of the resources instead of allowing individual landowners to sell thier mineral rights. The government then became corrupted by all the funds. The US had PLENTY of resources, and never really had problems, because we respected individual property rights (but not communal property rights, so don't even try to bring up the "oh we killed the indians" meme). Those who homesteaded the land got the mineral rights, sold them, were compensated, and invested that money in infrastructure and capital projects that have provided dividends right up to modern day. If the Nauru government had stayed out of it, the same thing would have happened there. This is the peril of communism, and has been repeated in many resource rich countries.
You don't seem to understand that if you don't pay for it yourself, they subsidies will cost you 50% more at least, as you not only have to pay the taxes to run the train, but for the bureaucrats who distribute the subsidy and prevent fraud. Not to mention the fraud itself.
Multiply that times tens of thousands of subsidies, and you wonder why western economies are all floundering?
Of course.
Just not the brown ones.
They come here for post graduate education because it is prestigious. They then go right back to China to get jobs. The bad part is that they also get jobs at their own universities, so eventually, they will consider their own universities to be as good as or better than ours, at which point the US loses its last strain of relevance on the world stage.
On SigmaAldrich, the price is a little more than twice that of silicon dioxide of similar purity (optical grade). Increased production volumes are likely to greatly reduce the price.
Note that it is RARELY FOUND IN NATURE, and Zaire is one of the places it is found. It is, of course, incredibly simple to manufacture. Just combine zinc with selenium. The reaction is highly exothermic, so once you add a little heat to get it started, it will power itself to completion.
Sounds hazardous, does it? So does dihydrogen monoxide.
Zinc Selenide is no more hazardous than dirt. It is not soluble in water, and as such, can't enter the bloodstream, unless you are stuffing gobs of the stuff down your throat, and even then its unlikely.
How about we actually, you know, think about these things rather than just dismissing them because they "sound hazardous"?
Uhhh, zinc selenide is neither of those things. It is not soluble in water, so it is not toxic. The feedstock is about twice the price right now, but that will come down with increased production volume.
But hey, change is bad, right, so fuck it.
You're a trusting soul. As a reward for this trust, I'm going to give you the deal of a lifetime on a bridge. I'll even throw in some Arizona beachfront property.
Mod parent up.
Revolutions have been justifiably started over much less than this. These people are drunk with power, and if they can not be got out by "law", then by God, they must be got out by natural law. If authorities won't do it, lynch mobs will have to do.
Uhhh, no. Do you consider anyone who makes a tool that you use your leader? Do you consider a person from your office who announces they are going to lunch down the street, and you decide to go as well your leader? If someone blew up the factory that produces your hammers, would you just give up on the concept of the hammer?
You also drastically underestimate their numbers. They are hundreds of thousands, even if they don't all participate in raids.
Sorry kids, you don't really know what you're talking about.
You confuse "Darwinism" and "the food chain". These are separate concepts.
Your post merely shows that you don't understand Anonymous. Everyone and no-one is a leader there. It's just a bunch of individuals, doing or not doing as they like, No orders, no e-penis, no nothing.
Actually, come to think of it, it's like a bunch of bees that each have their own colony. When one stings, others are likely to follow up, until the victim dies, runs away, or concedes whatever point the original attacker wanted. Or until they get bored. Also, they can sting multiple times, and often do it just for fun. Even if they could easily elucidate the identities of each and every attacker, do you really think anyone has the ability to go out and smash each individual hive? I sure don't. Instead, they try to make an example of a few, as they are doing here, and try to use fear to stop the others. Sometimes it works (more or less, don't mess with football), other times it doesn't.