Comment Re:I'm the app's developer. Happy to answer questi (Score 1) 131
It's fun. It's obnoxious. It's memorable. I like it.
It's fun. It's obnoxious. It's memorable. I like it.
Hey, now, there's only so much width to the printed page for that headline, so if we can save a few letters, we can get the larger font out!
Dang, man, you're really worried - did you get one of the CCs that still charges you the first $50 for fraud? Might try one with a $0 fraud promise.
Or is it something worse? Did you use your real email address for that furry porn site, and now it might have leaked? Sucks to be you, man.
The F35 and F22 aren't "stealth" fighters in that way - not like the B2. It's expected the enemy knows they're there. They're stealthy enough to get missile lock long before the enemy fighter does, and that's all that matters today. Dogfight indeed.
Drones will probably take over during the service life of the F35, but since we're not there yet we needed something. Sadly, we get this plane that's great at nothing but pork delivery, but it's not a complete waste of time. It's just sad that it was used as an excuse to stop building the F22, which really was great at air superiority, which is likely the last thing the drones take over.
Why aren't weapon systems modular allowing for easy upgrade?
That's the problem with being part of the Inner Sphere.
Never understood why the omnimech was supposed to be such a big deal... The battle master carried a ppc around in its hand for centuries.
Of course the work can be done anywhere - the key is it works better if everyone on a project is together, somewhere. I'd really like that "somewhere" to be the US!
hey, I had a GE made in Mexico about a decade ago - complete junk. I just gave away a Bosch too - also junk. Before the GE was Whirlpool junk. Replaced the Bosch with a Maytag, a model with a grinder, and it's the first dishwasher I've bought that I haven't hated in two decades. Not sure where it's made.
As far as immigrations goes, that's just bullshit. We don't have a shortage of people that are willing to do the work, we have a shortage of people that can afford to work for the wages that companies are willing to pay. Big difference, immigration just screws up the market forces that would correct the imbalance
Well, everyone wants higher pay. But supply and demand always win in the end. The big software companies already have development centers in China, India, Canada, and many other places. They can already hire cheap developers - cheaper than you pay US immigrants! It's not about driving down wages, when you can hire someone for $20k easily enough today if you just want basic competence. Companies want to pay these talented developers more, and bring them to the US because this is where top talent comes. What labor pool do you imagine you're protecting? The work can in theory be done anywhere, and we in the US benefit greatly from being the concentration of top talent.
I was surprised by the
I guess it looks cool, though (hard to argue with the company's success).
I'm willing to bet the NSA has prior art on this.
You think the Lizard Squad is teenagers? The conspiracy theorists have been warning us that the NSA is run by the NWO and Lizard People for decades.
If you live in a hydro state, electricity is even cheaper (I think 6 or 7 cpkwh).
With shopping and 6 month contracts (instead of 3 year), you can get 8.3 cpkwh right now.
Short contracts are cheap,
1-2 year are more expensive.
And 3 year are less expensive but more expensive than short term contracts.
To be honest, going to LED's is a much better payoff than solar power cells right now and will probably be for several more years. They all pay for themselves within 6 months. But you have to stick with the 3100k bulbs otherwise you get wierd shades of pink and orange or intense blue white (which will keep you up at night).
Because the price is set by the last 1%.
If we can get 99% of our oil out of the ground for $40 per barrel and 1% of our oil out of the ground for $100 per barrel- then every barrel sells is if it cost $100 per barrel to get out of the ground.
And that's just in the united states. Europe also has a similar size fleet of electric vehicles.
And in Europe, for instance, while total petroleum consumption averaged over 15.3 million barrels per day in 2009, it was under 14.3 million in 2013, and has dropped further since.
We get 19 gallons of gasoline per barrel so that's so 465,000 fewer gallons of oil here (and another 465,000 fewer gallons of oil in europe) translates to 48,000 barrels a day of oil that used to be needed that isn't needed any more.
Totally- not at all. But part of the reason for lower demand? Sure.
I'm sure there are many components to the lower demand and the higher supply.
Three are roughly 600,000 to 700,000 hybrid electric cars (so about 325,000 gallons a day of gasoline not used) and about 70,000 purely electric cars (so about 140,000 gallons a day of gasoline not used). So purely electric and electric/hybrid cars have reduced demand for gasoline by roughly 465,000 gallons of gasoline per day.
What is actual electricity in Hawaii now? I was told 27 cents by a Hawaiian on another discussion board-- it sounded really high but I figured imported coal/oil or something was a factor.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
