The legal theory is the delegation of powers. Congress delegated the power to write legislation within a certain scope, breadth, and depth, to the executive branch of government, authorizing it to set up an agency to manage same.
The question, though, is does that delegation extend beyond the term of the current congress?
It seems it would be unconstitutional to legislate away the law making power of future congresses.
I think he means the credibility of scientists.
You're missing a few things:
First, spending this borrowed money might employ a few people in town, but it also means less money is available to employ other people in the town (demand is reduced for some jobs while increased for others).
Second, the article shows that operating costs are over $11 million per year and that revenues aren't enough to cover those costs.
That puts revenues at nearly $170/month/subscriber and still money must be taken from the general fund to help pay for the system.
The $28 million was the original estimate. The cost at the moment is about $38 million.
There are about 5,400 subscribers of the broadband service giving a debt of about $6,300 per subscriber.
If this was a Libertarian Paradise, you probably would pay $500 dollars a month for landline service while someone in a densely populated urban area would pay $5 a month.
Why would that be so bad?
People that want rural living should pay for rural living and should not force urbanites to subsidize their quiet, peaceful life on the farm away from the noise of the city.
The US government has spent the past 50+ years using subsidies and regulations encourage people to get out of the cities.
What has it accomplished except to gut cities and spread asphalt everywhere?
I have to agree, but it's too bad in some ways, IMO.
I used to get so much joy programming the metal or tinkering with the assembly that came out of the compiler.
Doing that is still possible, but it doesn't pay the bills.
The dream of abstraction is a bit of a nightmare for those that like to get into the guts of the machine.
GPU programming is another example, though Mantle allows the programmer to get a bit closer to the hardware.
Yet in even some of the poorest countries you can get 20Mbit connections with no cap for less money than you pay in the US.
Citation, please, because Akamai's State of the Internet mostly disagrees with you.
But I'd take this in a heartbeat over an AMD counterpart. The maxwell chips are leagues ahead of anything AMD's got.
WIth one exception: the R9 280x when used for DP floating point compute.
For about $250 you can get an R9 280x that in one second will do one trillion double precision floating point operations. That's about 10x faster than the Maxwell cards.
With such a card AMD should have had the scientist/engineer space for GPGPU locked up by now.
But, you know, they're AMD, so...
Personally I love the GTX 750. It gives the biggest bang-for-the-buck and running at about 55 watts max or so it usually doesn't require a larger power supply. It can run completely off motherboard power going to a 16-lane 75 watt PCIe slot.
It's the perfect card for rescuing old systems from obsolescence, IMO.
The only trouble you might have is finding a single-slot-wide card if your system doesn't have room for a double slot card, though in my case I found a double-slot card that I could modify to fit in a single-slot of an old Core 2 Duo E8500 system.
And heat doesn't seem to be a problem at all, even with the mod I did. The low power of the card means less heat. Even if heat becomes a problem, the card is capable of slowly clocking itself down, though I've never seen that yet, even running Furmark.
Sub freezing temperatures aren't necessary.
In the UK, for example, for every one degree drop in temperature below 18C, deaths in the UK go up 1.5%. The risk of heart attack and stroke seem to increase with dropping temperatures.
And in the USA, the mortality rate is highest in January.
Vietnam shows a similar pattern.
Holder’s order applies only to “adoption,” which happens when a state or local agency seizes property on its own and then asks the Justice Department to pursue forfeiture under federal law. “Over the last six years,” the DOJ says in the press release announcing Holder’s new policy, “adoptions accounted for roughly three percent of the value of forfeitures in the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Program.” By comparison, the program’s reports to Congress indicate that “equitable sharing” payments to state and local agencies accounted for about 22 percent of total deposits during those six years. That means adoptions, which the DOJ says represented about 3 percent of deposits, accounted for less than 14 percent of equitable sharing. In other words, something like 86 percent of the loot that state and local law enforcement agencies receive through federal forfeitures will be unaffected by Holder’s new policy.
The story also notes how the press, especially the Washington Post which led with this story, teamed up with Holder to overstate the impact Holder’s order would have.
The problem is that too many people think "science" is whatever a person credentialed by some authority professes.
That's wrong.
"Science" is more properly a way of thinking. A "scientist" should be anyone willing to put the evidence offered by reality above intuitions, guesses, dogma, culture, and any other authority while also being open-minded to all possible explanations consistent with reality. It's a skepticism, even skepticism of one's own theories -- "a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" as Feynman put it.
Sometimes even credentialed scientists forget that.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
