Watching the Democrats - it's Fun and Macabre!

[Adak]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

What is that I don't even

Ha! Glad you asked, IM!

Folding@Home is a HUGE distributed computing project, run by Stanford University. It's purpose is to research how our proteins (that's the part of us that DOES the most stuff!), build themselves into these complex 3 dimensional shapes.

If the "build" goes bad, it's big-time trouble for us - like a key that not only doesn't open the lock, but might even break it.

It also studies how diseases get into our cells, at the molecular level, and finds the most likely candidates for effective drugs to treat diseases. We've done projects for Huntington's Disease, Alzheimer's, Cancer (helped lower the toxicity of a breast cancer drug to normal cells), Leukemia, etc.

Taken together, Folding@Home is the most powerful super computer in the world - by far.

My team is Overclockers.com (there are thousands of teams, and we are #4 in the world). This is the video from our leader of F@H, Dr. Vijay Pande: (he's interviewed by a DLTV member).

The video of the protein folding, is amazing!

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Learn

( team DLTV - hah! )

Note: This is NOT for laptops or tablets. In moderate use, you won't notice F@Home is even running, if you have good cooling for your PC.

The F@Home client runs in lowest priority, so everything you want to do, it yields cpu cycles to you (even to the screensavers). Takes 1/3rd of a second to do that.

For heavy gaming - turn it off (click the quit button in the app). Restart it later.

[Undertoad]

On the other hand, the deficit is falling pretty fast right about now as revenues are increasing.

FY 2007: $161 billion
FY 2008: $459 billion
FY 2009: $1,413 billion
FY 2010: $1,293 billion
FY 2011: $1,300 billion
FY 2012: $1,089 billion
FY 2013*: $901 billion

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

as revenues are increasing

Thank you. The decrease in revenue due to the Recession played a major role in the increasing deficit during 2007 - 2009.

[Lamplighter]

My way of thinking is to look at a household for an analogy.

Follow the way of a Republican household:

Don't use the check register to list all the checks you write.
... no list, it didn't happen.

When you move out, burn all the NSF notices and don't mention the lien on the property.

Then squawk like a male peacock when the next owner has to pay your debts.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Follow the way of a Republican household:

Don't use the check register to list all the checks you write.
... no list, it didn't happen.

When you move out, burn all the NSF notices and don't mention the lien on the property.

Then squawk like a male peacock when the next owner has to pay your debts.

Are you alluding to the way Obama screwed the bond holders of GM when he took it over - contrary to law, btw.

Or are you referring to how Obama screwed the taxpayers over to the tune of half a million dollars by OK'ing the loan to his crony friends in setting up a solar energy company that had already been labelled "risky", by the executive branch?

It's SO hard to keep track of all the way that the Democrats have wasted SO many millions of dollars.

We're NOT going to cut back on our spending and get through this recession, and come out stronger in a year or two -- oh no, by Gawd!

We're going to keep up -- no! EXPAND our spending, by hundreds of millions of dollars, and do NOTHING to make our economy more efficient - like say by using E-verify??

No, we have our recession, and we are, BY GAWD! Going to WALLOW in it, and sing Al Green imitations, and play golf, and hoops, and go on more talk shows, and lie some more!

Oh Hooray!!

[Spexxvet]

Yay, UT posted in the politics forum!

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

On the other hand, the deficit is falling pretty fast right about now as revenues are increasing.

FY 2007: $161 billion
FY 2008: $459 billion
FY 2009: $1,413 billion
FY 2010: $1,293 billion
FY 2011: $1,300 billion
FY 2012: $1,089 billion
FY 2013*: $901 billion

And it continues:

FY 2013#: $680 billion
FY 2014*: $492 billion

*Projected
#Revised from projected

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...wpisrc=nl_wonk

The 2014 deficit will be 2.8 percent of the economy, according to CBO, almost 32 percent below fiscal year 2013, when it was 4.1 percent. The deficit will shrink again in fiscal 2015 to $469 billion, before rising to about $1 trillion in fiscal years 2022 to 2024, CBO said.

“This will be the fifth consecutive year in which the deficit has declined as a share of GDP since peaking at 9.8 percent in 2009,” CBO said in a report released today. The 2.8 figure as a percentage of gross domestic product is lower than the 3.1 percent average of the last 40 years, CBO said.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I suppose it's a pretty good indication of the situation in Washington when one side is talking apples and the other oranges. That way they both can make a lot of noise while not accidently debating something.

[infinite monkey]

I don't like all these coherent posts without color coding.

[BigV]

Lamplighter,

All peacocks are male. All peahens are female.

That is all.

[BigV]

Good to see you again Adak. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving holiday. I'd like to offer my hand to you in post-election-goodwill and say "good contest". I have a request/suggestion for this next phase of political discussion here. Would you please omit the ad hominem attacks and the playground name-calling? I pledge to do the same.

I respectfully ask this of you because it will optimize our efforts toward what is undoubtedly our *shared* goal, discussing and deciding what is best for *our country* and how to get there. I freely admit there's likely more overlap on the former than the latter--but they are equally important. I value your input, but it's very difficult, for me, to extract your ideas which deserve consideration from your incendiary rhetoric which distracts.

Thank you.

[Lamplighter]

V, yes, of course

[Lamplighter]

Are you alluding to the way Obama screwed the bond holders of GM when he took it over - contrary to law, btw.

a typical adekian response...



Did you see what I did there... a new word entered my vocabulary

[BigV]

OF COURSE the answer should be the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Department of Energy, or some combination of both. To rely on "self regulation" will never work, and would indeed be illegal.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by BigV

OF COURSE the answer should be the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Department of Energy, or some combination of both. To rely on "self regulation" will never work, and would indeed be illegal.

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*wipes tears out of eyes*

Oh, my! I don't mean to make fun, but your response just struck me as so INNOCENT! Maybe you were being sarcastic?

I've been fortunate enough to visit the Pacific Northwest more than once, and I even lived in northern Idaho right on its border with Washington State for a year. Oh, how I'd love to see the ocean again!

Anyhow, the people who reside in the PNW have always struck me as far more liberal and far more envionmentally aware then the ranchers and farmers and the rest of the the population of Colorado's Western Slope.

I bet YOU guys demand that the EPA carry out its designated functions in your states. Well, good luck with that. Out here, we shoot first and ask questions later.

That leaves the nice fellow from the DOE. He shakes everyone's hand and winks a couple of times and helps throw parades for Halliburten or Shell in every small town on the Colorado Plateau.

The people of Naturita and Nucla are dying (literally) to get their uranium mining back. While they're waiting, the DOE goes out and puts warning signs with a big radiation symbol on them around the oddly deep blue old uranium settling and tailings containment ponds.

I used to have a priceless picture of a couple of cows drinking water from one of those ponds - radiation warning sign in full view - in the background was a dead, bloated cow - four legs in the air.

BEEF! It's what makes America glow in the dark!

All humor aside, much the same arguments as those made by Adak helped the gas drilling industry in Colorado win rare exemptions from the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act when Congress enacted the 2005 Energy Policy Act.

The Energy Policy Act is to the EPA as the Patriot Act is to the Constitution.

Alas, nothing to actually laugh about.