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Comment Re:One non-disturbing theory (Score 2) 304

Far more logical is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.... All that hard glass, basically broken bottles ground smooth, many many far finer fragments buried into the sand below. Plastic is a whole lot software than glass so it can get ground up much faster, add in brittling from UV exposure, the shorelines of the world, lots of sun and surf and we end up with a new kind of sand. The plastic that is caught in vegetation off the shore line is far more visible.

Comment Re: One switch to rule them all? (Score 1) 681

For me, sustainting real work speed. I didn't want to search for anything, I want to use the GUI without thinking about how I am using it. So customised menus with the tools I use most being most accesible and then sub menuing down from there. So with regard to upgrades copying that menu structure from one version to the next to the next to, wait what, fuck what I want, nah fuck what you want. Switch to alternate software and make it work. That is exactly why I switched from M$ Office to now Libre Office. Likely wouldn't have made the switch if M$ hadn't been a big ole bag o dicks about it and had given me a choice.

Comment Re:Weather is NOT climate (Score 1) 567

So the weather will be raining, with clouds, and clear skies, snowing and dry the maximum temperature will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc degrees C and maximum wind speed will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc. Nuances in your version of English is quite simply bullshit. The definition was quite clear cut. http://www.grammar-monster.com... so five weather forecasts, five historical weather reports, want higher numbers, counting is going fine so far "Make the non-countable noun an adjective to a countable noun. For example:"

Comment Re:Weather is NOT climate (Score 1) 567

Weather - The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )

Climate - The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )

In exactly what way? I gather that shrug has to do with your general state of confusion.

Lets be blunt the Swedish farmer argument is the "I'm Alright Jack" argument http://www.urbandictionary.com...! with just a bit of dressing up.

Comment Re: Throttling = "less available"? (Score 1) 125

The question then who is the claim of cyber security threat limited too. Can the end users launch a mass claim of cyber security threat by the ISP for throttling and censoring the data from to those affected individuals. "any action that may result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the security, confidentiality and availability of an information system or of information stored on such system. Countermeasures can be employed against such threats absent risk of liability." So I as the end user can claim that the ISP interfered with my right to access data without specific authorisation (a blanket authorisation would have to be illegal, as the contract would be contradictory, we agree to supply you something except when we supply you nothing, you can write it down but it will fail in court). Forcing the ISP to seek approval each and every time they take any action to throttle or censor data without express authorisation to throttle or censor that data. So you can legally hack the ISP absent the risk of liability, youch, that's a bit strong. Class action law suite time.

Comment Re:Company scrip returns... (Score 2) 162

Issuing part payment as shares is a tax dodge. You don't pay any taxes until the shares are sold but you can borrow money against them and the dividends can make the payments with you personal loan being tax deducted against those dividends. This means your pay is tax free and after 7 years is disappears as income. So nothing is ever as it seems, especially as companies can sell their stock, buy other better dividend stock and pay you in that, tax deduct it and yet you never pay tax on it.

Comment Re:Deleted (Score 1) 108

Well put in the hard yards and you to can be a wikipedia editor. Donate money, promote wikipedia, write well crafted articles including references, ensure accuracy and have sound links and references to other articles. Make sure people look it up and read it, make contributions to other articles, join in discussions and be prepared to make wikipedia your life or at the very least a substantial portion of it. Never forget though "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."(Stephen Colbert). I am sorry but I can't help you with that, and no a conservative lie does not deserve equal time with a truth just because that truth presents a fact that can be interpreted as being liberal. OHH look a religious article on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R..., in fact it lead to a whole portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... all of it's own (with a huge number of articles), it would appear your comment has a disingenuous conservative bias based upon lies, it would be mercilessly deleted from wikipedia.

Comment Re:WUWT (Score 3, Informative) 441

The proper fiscal calculation is. Work out the total capital cost and calculate the monthly financial payment based upon borrowing all that money and then add in monthly maintenance and administrative costs, deduct that from the value of the average energy generation forecast and associated revenue, what you have left over is profit on the investment. Technically in financial circles the investment starts paying off in the first month or it never really does. In total over the life of the system, you check to make sure it pays itself off before it expires.

Any other arguments are meaningless, extra generators, mass storage etc need to be costed completely separately as they are about recovering energy costs from other sources, so you just really compare them to the wind generators and in the case of batteries storing the energy of wing generators to sell it other times, versus other energy generation methods.

Comment Re:Step 1 (Score 1) 196

All that advertising, name dropping, media product placements ain't free you know, someone has to pay for it and some customers are willing to pay a whole lot not for the product but for the product branding that goes with it. Just like jewellery, what are you really paying for, nothing except poseur value and ego fulfilment. Tech device's though, tricky, you really don't want to market yourself as sucker as a victim of marketing and Apple is making the slow but inexorable slide down that market and the slide finishes with an avalanche. Buying beats to try market their way out of the problems seems a really silly move, better off to have dumped it out in dividends but the executive team will be after milking Apple for all it is worth reminds me of another company Kodak.

Comment Re:Anonymous Coward: source name prefix is bullshi (Score 3, Interesting) 70

Just the sort of thing the NSA would love. So monitors all elemental emotional state levels much like a lie detector when ever your wear it. Reports you location and incorporates a bug er microphone into the device. Hell the NSA would have wet dreams about making it compulsory. The soft sell would be, but it means you don't have to carry a drivers licence when police wrongly demand ID they just be able to lock onto your watch and get all the information they want 24/7/365. Hmmm, who will be watching whom, will your be watching your watch or will your watch be watching you.

Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong (Score 4, Interesting) 82

Not all books are the same. There are two major categories non-fiction versus fiction. I would have to be honest and say when it comes to say text books, I want to download them for free and never pay for them. I don't want a text book written by one author that only lasts a couple of years. I want one where hundreds even thousands of people expert in the field have collaborated on and update once a year. A government funded exercise, where it is not about generating a profit but saving money by reducing cost for education for every citizen. So open collaborative text books free of copyright hassles beyond keeping plagiarists under control.

Comment Re: I hope not. (Score 1) 113

So the problem isn't common core but the lack of unified high quality education across the state. The solution is pretty obvious take funding and management of public education away from local government and place it in state government hands. Straight away a massive saving in administrative costs, with one public education management body for each state rather than hundreds of them one for each local government body. There will also be huge federal government funding savings as they only need to control and manage support for 50 state departments of education rather than thousands of local government departments of education. A huge amount of waste in government spending in the US is driven by management being repeated again and again at local government level, when it should only occur once at state government level. That's where the focus should be, getting more management efficiency back in the system with a review of how public service is managed and taxation revenue generated for it and whether core essential services should be local government or state managed, things like schools, police and fire brigades. A single state resource distributed across the state according to need and local communities able to call upon the entire state resource in times of need. A huge reduction in management costs with either a tax saving or an increase in services.

Comment Re:The REAL value of the transit system (Score 1) 170

The problem with funding mass transit is that it must be designed for peak flows ie have sufficient capacity to fulfil demand during morning and afternoon rush hour. Outside of rush hour this capacity whilst still available is largely idle and thus losses money even though during peak transit times it generates a profit. So either adjust work start and finish to distribute demand and make public transit more profitable or just learn to suck it up when in a traffic jam as that will be the norm without public transit freeing up roads during peak hour, each passenger is one less car on the road and that is what you are paying for.

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