That's because the U.S. makes no attempt at incentivizing energy conservation through the tax system.
Why would not incentivizing energy conservation make it CHEAPER, if the US is not conserving energy wouldn't supply and demand make it more expensive?
Really, you're going to fix Feynman but not going to fix "Tell the tail" or Politzer?
Really? You think we need to raise pay for cops? While it's true that the base salary is kind of crappy cops get all kinds of other income from other places. For example This New York Times article says this about the NYPD:
"annual pay for city police officers ranges from $43,062 for a cadet entering the academy to $90,829 for an officer with five and a half years on the job, including overtime and other earnings"
What other job do you know of that doesn't require a college education where you'll be making 90k after 5 years? That's disregarding the very generous pension and insurance benefits that police receive. Plus other benefits, like the guy who walked down that line ssssof non-violent protesters during an occupy rally at UC Berkeley getting $38,000 for "depression and anxiety" instead of being fired like he should have been. Police get paid plenty, the solution isn't more money for them the solution is independant oversight.
The fact that a computer can beat a human at chess does not mean that chess ability isn't correlated with intelligence. A computer can also easily multiply several 10 digit numbers together and "remember" a list of one million items, if a human performs those feats there is a good chance they have a high intelligence. Nobody says Usain Bolt is a slow runner because my 1975 Pinto can go faster than him.
Even in high school, I'd read the textbooks, and then sit in class, kinda bored.
But while most concepts needed explained several times,
Suddenly, not the stops,
You should have read the English book again.
Does your average voyage contain a zip-lock bag big enough to house a body?
Weight is a huge concern for space voyages. It's something like $10,000 a pound. Quite a lot for a even a simple bag that doesn't have a dual, or tri, purpose.
I know nuclear submarines don't have airtight bags big enough to hold a body and they're much more free with what they can bring aboard. I was reading an article about one where a guy, what do you know, had a heart attack and died while they were submerged for a long duration. They ended up having a "feast" as a wake, because they cleared out one of the food freezers and chucked him in there.
Yes, the big zip-lock back is called a space suit and most missions will have several onboard.
The coal plants can still be "plugged in" and operated during times of peak load (weekday summer afternoons and winter mornings); what they can't do is operate much the rest of the time.
The problem with this is that coal plants can't operate this way. A typical coal plant takes 4-8 hours to reach full power from a warm start and can take 24 hours to cold start. This is why we currently use them for baseload power and use other sources (mostly natural gas and hydro) for load following.
I figured with your sig you would realize there is a lot more to the political spectrum than just the left/right false dichotomy that the US system presents. The voting system ensures that the system will never change from 2 dominant political parties, but it would be nice to at least get a better party than the two shitfests we have now.
Why even bother with the landfills? There are massive garbage patches floating around in the oceans, the vast majority of which are plastics. If you can get a big enough tanker and implement this system on it, you could probably cut the amount of fuel needed even further - the tanker goes into a garbage patch, melts all the plastic down, keeps the oil, and uses some of it to get back to land. It would probably be more effective than loading fleets of trucks.
You are vastly overestimating the density of these patches, probably due to media sensationalism. For example, the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has a density of 4 particles per cubic meter of water. These particles are quite small, even microscopic. I know the news stories make it sound like it is just this mass of garbage floating around but that's just not how it is. From the Wikipedia article linked above:
"and the relatively low density of the plastic debris at, in one scientific study, 5.1 kilograms of plastic per square kilometer of ocean area"
I doubt it would be cost-effective to process a square kilometer of seawater to get that paltry amount of plastic, even assuming you could recover 100% of it.
How was it legal? He stole people's property.
So, bitcoins are now property that you can steal?
Please show me a law that shows bitcoins are any more real or worth any more than virtual gold in World of Warcraft.
The IRS says Bitcoin is legally property, if you think that doesn't hold the force of law go ahead and try to defy them on that.
If he suspects the code has a vulnerabitlity, he doesn't want it copied.
It's funny how open source is always bragged as being the antidote against vulnerabilities and backdoors (as "anyone can verify it"), but here we still are worrying about TrueCrypt code possibly containing something vulnerable.
The difference is that if it is open source you can actually do something about it. If you are using a closed-source solution there is no way to verify if it backdoored or not. With open source there are the same possibilities for backdoors (especially on a product like Truecrypt which has very few core developers) but you have a much better chance of finding the backdoor if you suspect it exists.
In the very near future 'coming out' won't be the declaration of your sexual orientation, but the refusal to knuckle under to the fascist pricks of the Spook-Industrial complex via an NSL.
Yes, it will be hard, yes, it may even be prison time but this is the whole point of repressive intimidation tactics: the hope of the power-mad that individuals stay cowed and powerless, not unified and unbowed in the face of true oppression - that actual freedom isn't free.
Can you imagine if a project of TrueCrypt's successor got an NSL and _every_ person even remotely connected to the project all appeared together in the live-streamed press conference exposing and denouncing FedGov... they're gonna prosecute all of them? All together? In a show trial, perhaps? Cockroaches hate exposure to the light.
Nope, it won't be a show trial -- it will be a secret trial because "terrorism". The Truecrypt devs wouldn't be able to speak out because they would be in jail.
Too bad they can't put a kill switch on hand guns. That would stop a lot of crime.
They can. Unfortunately the NRA is against such technology because "Obama wants to confiscate our guns!".
you don't
you trade your phone in to a legit business and they have a deal with apple and everyone else to reformat the phone and disable any kill switches
Sure, conducting a transaction with another citizen is doubleplusungood. What we really need is more middlemen inserting themselves into every transaction, because we don't have nearly enough of that.
There is no good reason to bring anything, or anyone, back to Earth.
A sample return would be valuable. Even if we have geologists (or aresologists) on-site, we will probably be able to do a better analysis on Earth.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
