Comment Re:How to become a space millionaire? (Score 1) 214
Someone who's estate was worth $2.5B when he died is probably not the best example to prove your point.
Someone who's estate was worth $2.5B when he died is probably not the best example to prove your point.
Is it "first come, first to profit"?
For the foreseeable future, I'd think not....more like 3rd to merge assets of 4 failed startups might profit.
But we should discard public servants at the first sign of hypocrisy
So all of them?
Well good on them for at least talking about it!
Also, they smartly chose "voluntary, non-regulatory" as the very first words to describe the program instead of, you know, what its purpose is. What would be very interesting is to see an objective report on how effective Florida's approach is to reducing pollution compared to say San Fransisco's plastic bag ban or composting requirements. I wonder if you could somehow control for the Hippie vs Retiree mindset?
You'd think that to address erosion caused by over development, perhaps florida might still want to consider "sustainability" (apparently also banned) even if all those other problems are of no concern to a flat coastal state.
sane definition of "planet"
Care to elaborate?
Probably true but like you said, there is already a huge power industry that uses offshore infrastructure ubiquitously. The 12B pounds probably takes at least some of those costs into consideration.
I'd even go so far as to say entirely fictional. Don't forget that even the slightest damage to the extremely delicate bones, blood vessels and nerve bundles that make up our senses would make them first thing to rot away. Oh, and then there's the laws of thermodynamics.
I for one am willing to put that all aside for a fun story. But the thing is, its easy to fantasize how you'd survive. I guess a main draw of zombie stories is its easy for anyone to picture themselves a hero.
Global warming is a great thing - just ask Canada, especially the places that are currently -40 degrees.
Right, because when their average temperature suddenly jumps up to 25C, those northern frozen wastelands will instantly become a tropical paradise/breadbasket of the earth. Nevermind that since nothing has grown taller than a foot in 100s (1000s?) of thousands of years there are no nutrients in the soil and its much more likely to turn into a desert (much like rainforests do after deforestation). The effort to turn our newly thawed tundra into the fertile paradise all you "AGW aint so bad" crowd like to spout all the time could well be greater than eliminating all CO2 emissions within 5 years.
Look around yourself! This failed system has harnessed quantum mechanics to preserve your apathy in a massive disaster proof building somewhere on the micron scale yet makes it available for most of society to see in an instant! We've come so far and may well be on the verge of taking the next great leap in understanding the universe (or finding out if the universe even allows that leap to be taken) and you just want to throw it all away because there are a bunch of jerks mixed in.
Nice nickname btw. There is a hell of a lot more opportunity today than after your societal collapse when you're spending all your time scrounging for roots to eat.
I wonder about that. If you believe (for lack of a better word) in evolution then you'd think that a trait shared by the overwhelming majority of a species serves some roll in increasing their survival in a given environment. Something like 90% of humans believe in a god so following that logic, it seems religion served some evolutionary advantage.
Or maybe the religious humanoids just happened to band together first to burn all the heretics.
It makes no sense to require power companies to
buy power from rooftop installations at retail.
Why? Its already at the point of use. Retail isn't the $0.11/kwh everyone pays, that includes distribution (my generation rate is more like $0.05/kwh). Take out distribution and electrons are electrons.
Net metering is just another subsidy for solar, and it is already well known that solar subsidies are one of the least cost effective methods to compact climate change. We could reduce CO2 emissions by ten times as much if the money was spent on attic insulation or LED lighting, and a hundred times as much if it was spent on contraceptives for third world women.
Whoa cowboy. With net metering we have an additional source of resources for the monopoly that controls electricity in a given region. And its generated at the point of use, reducing distribution cost. If they're too stupid to figure out how to use new technology and load balance, they should be obligated to figure it out or rescind their monopoly.
"Its well known" that you make shit up. There are many different scenarios and some are not conducive to solar. However in my state (high coal usage), my rooftop solar panels are currently cheaper today than coal generated electricity. They'll generate back the power that it took to make them within a year or two and over 20 years I'm looking at an 8-10% ROI. How is eliminating coal power to a house for less money not cost effective?
I'm with you that insulation and LEDs are the way to go but even I think 10x is optimistic (back to: you're making shit up). I also agree contraception should be ubiquitous and lower population is an excellent way to fix most of the problems in the world today, but start in the US. A lower class american consumes orders of magnitude more resources than most Africans, Indians, and rural Chinese.
I have yet to see an example of "the XXXXX industry" acting in the interests of anyone but themselves. Benefits to outside parties are pretty much always coincidence.
Sure there's a few Californias....
Do you mean states that provide the highest percentage of a country's food and send more money to the federal government than they receive? Or states that run a deficit...which is about half of them, red and blue alike?
The internet has been largely unregulated and that has been a really good thing.
It was a good thing...until 2-3 entities gained control of 80-90% of the gates to it. Its a really good thing that said entities finally have to answer to someone.
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