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Comment Re: Never made an honest dime (Score 1) 181

You are right. It is not all musk. All of these companies count on top ppl. But, the original design of f9 was musk. Likewise, he is responsible for a number of manufacturing designs and innovations. Likewise, he has surrounded himself by engineers and in general, gotten rid of MBA's, who have become the bane of american businesses.

Comment Re: Obama's done more than Elon musk (Score 1) 181

Noah, All of the major car companies are banding together to do fuel cells that use hydrogen derived from Nat gas.
When gen 3 hits the market in about 3 years, few will want to buy a fuel cell car. As it is, the only reason why leaf and volt outsell model s is not because those owners do not want Tesla. It is simply because they can not afford it. Gen 3 will force all major car companies to switch to electric, rather than loose major shares to Tesla.

Comment easy to run cat 6 around the house (Score 1) 279

Seriously, it is a lot easier to run cat 6 around a house.
First off, you have to be living in KC. That means that you have a basement. That means that you can run cat 6 into the first floor trivially. The hard part is dealing with the upstairs.
Depending on the builder, you likely have a tunnel that goes from the basement to the attic, or you might have 1-2 2 or 3" conduits going from the basement up to the attic. You can simply run a single line up there and then put in place a switch, while you splay out to the various runs from the attic.
If you do not have the easy access, then hire somebody to run a cat 6 inside of a conduit from the basement to the attic on the outside of the house. Do it in a corner, next to a downspout, etc. Then paint the conduit.

Also do yourself a favor and run a line to the outside. Ideally, it will be trivial to disconnect (or more likely connect). I ran line up from the basement up to the dining area which the deck is outside of. Inside, I put this in a single gang box, with 2 quickports RJ-45s. The bottom one goes to the basement/network switch. The upper jack goes to an outside jack. When I want the outside, I simply plug in a small 4" connector. Otherwise, it leaves me an inside connection (useful for winter).

Comment Skip H1-Bs (Score 1) 293

Look, if America needs the help, then they should be getting a green card, not a temp visa. As such, we need to solve the illegal issue along with a real deal on visas. We should drop the H1-Bs, and instead, put national needs at the front of the line. That means that if an AMERICAN company is unable to hire somebody local, then THEY can get more green carded legal immigrants.

And no, foreign companies should not be allowed to bring ppl in from overseas to do the work.

Comment Block infosys (Score 1) 293

Seriously, the right message is to block infosys from working with American companies for at least 10 years.

To be fair, this is not just infosys that does this. So does tata and many many other companies. The reason is simple. They are NOT global in nature. They are all national, and simply want to bring the work back to their nation. The problem is that American Executives that are MBA's are in this for short-term gains. As such, it behooves them to continue to offshore, while also selling off the company bit-by-bit. GE, IBM, Boeing, etc are all good examples of companies being ran by MBAs that are destroying American companies, while screaming that this is about globalism.
After all, if it was TRULY globalism, then American and other western companies would be allowed into nations like China and India with our goods. But that is not the case.

Comment Re:Good point about gas. (Score 1) 261

I agree with much of what you say. Nat gas is CHEAP, and that is what made this happen. O had NOTHING to do with shutting down a SINGLE coal plant up to this point. Interestingly, W's regs on stopping mercury emissions by 2016, has accounted for shutting down more than 1/3 of these coal plants.
If EPS's new regs go in effect, then yes, more coal plants WILL close down, but more importantly, no more new coal plants will be built (that is NOT a bad thing).
I agree with you about nukes. Obama has it right when he says, that our energy policy needs to be ALL OF THE ABOVE. While I am opposed to burning coal directly, I think that we should fund coal=>methane, and sell it to our western allies.
Likewise, we need to help move our commercial vehicles to nat gas serial hybrids and passenger cars to electric.
And while I like wind, solar, etc. we need more sources. That needs to include Nukes.
Oddly, all of the far left screams about nukes and storage and yet, we have the ability to burn this up CHEAPLY AND SAFELY.

So frustrating that the far right and left are destroying America.

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