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The American Form of Government
Everyone should find a way to have a young person view this video. It is a short explanation of the different forms of governing, and why our Founding Fathers risked so much to create a republic - and not a democracy.
When Spend And Tax sees something worth learning and is interesting in content we will use this page to highlite this. Clearly it's time to arm ourselves with what the intent of the founding fathers was, our job is getting goverment back to basics.
Climate Model Uncertainty: Part I
Would you check the results of a model with another model? Before you answer, be sure you know what the question is.
A model—whether it is physical, statistical, mathematical, or some combination—is an algorithmic device designed to make predictions about some observable thing. You want today to know that price of tomorrow’s Dow Jones Industrial Index? There are models for that; usually statistical models.
You want today to know whether it will rain in Detroit tomorrow so that you can decide whether to plant your crops in the old lots that used to contain houses? There’s a model for that; a physical-statistical weather model called MOS (model output statistics; see Part II)......
Climate Model Uncertainty: Part II
The Analysis (cont.)
Two problems arise when comparing a model’s integration (the forecast) with an analysis of new observations, which are not found when comparing the forecast to the observations themselves. Verifying the model with an analysis, we compare two equally sized “grids”; verifying the model with observations, we compare a tiny number of model grid points with reality.
Now, some kinds of screwiness in the model are also endemic in the analysis: the model and analysis are, after all, built from the same materials. Some screwiness, therefore, will remain hidden, undetectable in the model-analysis verification. ......
Electricity – Paying Three Times For The Same Thing, And Some Unintended Consequences (PART 1)
Don’t you just love the way Politicians find new ways to gouge you. They don’t call it a tax, and won’t hear of anyone who does, in fact, roundly vilifying anyone who does dare call it a tax. Then they find a way to give it a name that makes it seem acceptable, a name that IF anyone does criticise it, gives them ammunition to attack that person with labels signifying they are destroyers of, in this case, the environment that we all have to live in. Then, without offering a truthful explanation, and with the media in their back pocket, they introduce these new measures, and the only real thing that we actually CAN do is to pay ….. and pay ….. and pay.
The same applies with the electrical power we all use, something that has now become a staple of life, something we cannot do without, and something we all have to use.
Electricity – Paying Three Times For The Same Thing, And Some Unintended Consequences (PART 2)
In PART 1, I detailed how you, as a residential consumer, use electricity, and how you will be slugged further for using it. If you have not read PART 1, it is directly above this on the Home page, or for those of you who are visiting externally, then take this link.
This diagram for Load Curve for actual consumption of electrical power was also in PART 1, but I refer to it again further down, so I have also included it here. If you click on the image, it will open in a new and larger window.
These have already started rolling out in some States, and they have even started to roll out here in Australia, with two States already legislating for their introduction.