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GSAOI OT Details
An introduction to the Gemini Observing Tool (OT) is presented elsewhere. This page provides detailed information on GSAOI component, GeMS component and GSAOI iterator.
- GSAOI Component
- GeMS AO Component
- Defining the CANOPUS AO WFS Stars and GSAOI ODGW Stars
- GSAOI Sequence Iterator
- GSAOI Offset Iterator
GSAOI Component
The GSAOI component editor is accessed by selecting the GSAOI component in the science program, and is shown in the figure below:
Selecting a filter
Choice of filter is made by clicking on the "Filter" pull down menu (i.e. the down-pointing arrows). The filter is chosen by selecting one from the list (by clicking on it). The central wavelength is given for each filter to assist with identification. You can move the vertical slider bar or click on the arrow buttons to browse the list.
Controlling the exposure
The exposure time is set by clicking in the relevant window and typing the required number of seconds. Each occurrence of the observe element will cause N exposures to be taken and coadded in the instrument control system. The value of N is set by typing an integer in the "coadds" window. The total exposure in each output image will be the exposure time multiplied by the number of coadds.
Setting the position angle
The facility Cassegrain Rotator can rotate the instrument to any desired position angle. The angle (in conventional astronomical notation of degrees east of north) is set by typing in the "position angle" box. The view of the science field in the position editor will reflect the selected angle. Alternatively the angle may be set or adjusted in the position editor itself by interactively rotating the science field.
Arrays readout modes
The GSAOI arrays are read in three different modes for different kinds of observations. Select the button corresponding to the desired mode (Bright Objects, Faint Objects, or Very Faint Objects). Note that the low noise reads, the read noise, the recommended exposure time and the minimum exposure time will get updated when a different readmode is selected. Details about the read out modes can be found in the GSAOI Detector page.
GeMS AO Component
GSAOI can be used "only" with GeMS. The GeMs AO component is automatically included in the GSAOI observation element. The GeMS component editor is accessed by selecting the GeMS component in the science program.
Observers should choose the default values for "Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector" (disable), for the Astrometric Mode ("Regular). The Dichroic beamsplitter is set to 0.85 µm and should not be changed.
Defining the CANOPUS AO WFS Stars and GSAOI ODGW Stars
GeMS uses 1 to 3 Optical Natural Guide Stars for tip-tilt wave front sensing ( CANOPUS WFS or CWFS) and 1 GSAOI near-infrared On-Detector Guide Windows (ODGW) star for flexure correction. The CWFS stars and the ODGW stars are specified in the target component of the main observation.
Information about the base position (i.e. the science object) and guide star(s) may be edited by clicking the appropriate line in the target table and then editing the various fields through the text boxes below. Changing the type of target may be done using the pull down menu at the middle left.
Details on how to add guide stars (of any type) can be found in the OT Tutorial. Guide stars can be added by clicking the green "plus" symbol in the target table. Guide stars can be deleted manually by clicking the red "cross" symbol in the table target.
A better way to define guide stars is to use the OT position editor to query an image of the field and add stars interactively from the on-line catalogs. The UCAC3 catalog, the 2MASS catalog and the PPMX catalog give accurate positions for visible and near infrared sources.
An example, from the position editor, is given below. The GSAOI detector arrays are the large squares (cyan) and identified with a number (the orientation is N-up, E-left). The GSAOI base position, defined in the target component, is marked as a small yellow cross within a circle. It is located at the bottom right corner of array 4, ∼7.6" from the center of the GSAOI detector arrays. The CANOPUS Wave Front Sensor (CWFS) probes patrol field area is represented by a large red circle with a radius of 1′, centered at the GSAOI base position. Note that the red circle indicates the area where the CWFS probes can move. The probes of the CWFS1 and CWFS2 are shown as a red rectangle in the figure. The probe of CWFS3 is located under CWFS1 and CWFS2 probes and is not shown in the position editor. Up to three CWFS guide stars can be used for tip-tilt wave front sensing. Only one ODGW star has to be used to compensate possible flexure drifts between CANOPUS and GSAOI.
Guide star search algorithm
The selection of the CWFS and ODGW guide stars can be done automatically using the "Auto GS" icon or manually using the "Manual GS" icon in the position editor (or using the buttons located in the target component if the position editor is not already open). in both cases, the search of the guide stars is performed using MASCOT (Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Tool) algorithm. The algorithm searches different catalogs for tip-tilt guide stars at given coordinates, compute the best tip-tilt guide star groups that will provide the best compensation (best Strehl) across the 2' CANOPUS field of view. The best asterism, based on the best average Strehl, is then selected by default. More details on the algorithm can be found in the How to find the best NGS Asterism web page.
In manual mode, the "GeMS Guide Star Search" window is displayed (upper panel in the figure below). The user can configure the catalog, the near-infrared band and the asterism (CANOPUS and GSAOI, CANOPUS alone or GSAOI alone) by clicking on the "Catalog", "NIR" and "Asterism" pull down menus respectively (i.e. the down-pointing arrows). If required, the position angle can be adjusted (every 90 degrees) by enabling or disabling the "Allow position angle adjustments" button. When a "Query" is requested, then a list of guide star candidates inside the CANOPUS field of view is given (lower panel in the figure below). The list can be reviewed and modified.
In automatic mode ("AUTO GS"), the "CANOPUS (CWFS)" is the default asterism search and the "UCAC3 Catalog" is the default catalog for MASCOT. Note that the bright and faint magnitude limits for the CWFS stars are R=8.0 mag and R=15.5 mag respectively.
By pressing on the "Analyze'" button (located at lower right in the above figure) the algorithm searches for the best asterisms and returns a list of candidates sorted by the average Strehl, the average rms and the maximum and minimum Strehl (see figure below). The algorithm can handle also sub-optimal cases. For example, it can return the best two-star asterism if a three-star asterism is not available.The user can also select more than one candidate asterism. When two or more asterisms are included in the target component, they are grouped separately. To add the candidate asterisms to the GSAOI Target Component, just press the "Add" button located at lower right in the figure below.
Using the "User catalog" option
The MASCOT algorithm can search for the best asterism using catalogs provided by the users. To use this capability, in the "GeMS Guide Star Search" window, the user has to select "User Catalog" from the Catalog menu and then select the skycat catalog to use from the menu to the right. After selecting the options you click 'Query' to display the catalog (see the figure below). An example user file for coordinates "21:29:51.000 12:08:36.00" can be found here.
Visualization of the selected asterism and average Strehl
The selected asterism can be visualized in the position editor. In the figure below, the three CWFS stars and the ODGW star are marked as a small green square. The average Strehl ratio, the associated error, the minimum and maximum Strehl values, calculated using the MASCOT algorithm, and the FWHM for the selected filter and Image Quality condition are shown at the bottom of the position editor. The Strehl map is visualized in the position editor as narrow curved green/yellow lines. To visualize the Strehl map, the average Strehl ratio, the associated error, the minimum and maximum Strehl values, and the FWHM, click on the "Strehl" button located in the left panel of the position editor.
The MASCOT algorithm returns an average Strehl ratio and the FWHM for the filter defined in the GSAOI Component and for the Image Quality selected in the Observing Conditions component. To estimate the average Strehl ratio and expected FWHM using different filters (e.g. J and H) and Image Quality conditions, the users have to change the filter in the GSAOI Component and the Image Quality in the Observing Conditions component. The calculation of the average "Strehl" ratio (and the visualization of the Strehl map) is performed automatically after a new filter and a new Image Quality condition are selected. Note the Image Quality Conditions allowed are IQ=20%-ile, IQ=70%-ile or IQ=85%-ile.
Important Note: The average Strehl, the associated error and the minimum and maximum Strehl delivered by the Mascot algorithm are only indicative. The values are based on data collected during the GeMS/GSAOI commissioning (see Table 1 in the GeMS performance web page). The FWHM values provided by the OT are also indicative and based on the values listed in Table2 in the GeMS performance web page. The Strehl calculation derived by the Mascot algorithm in the OT does not take into account for example the laser guide star (LGS) photon return (this parameter varies seasonally), turbulence profile (Cn2(h)), non-common path aberrations and other AO optimization and calibration parameters. The Strehl and FWHM values returned by the OT may vary if, for example, the LGS photon return is too low or turbulence profile is dominated by high altitude turbulence.
For choosing suitable CWFS and ODGW stars consider the following:
- Only Canopus NGSs (CWFS) can be used for fast tip/tilt correction. The GSAOI On-Detector Guide Windows (ODGW) are not yet implemented, and therefore not allowed for fast tip/tilt correction.
- All observations must have from 1 to 3 CWFS guide stars for tip-tilt wave front sensing and one ODGW guide star for flexure compensation.
- The CWFS guide stars and the ODGW star must have the following limiting magnitudes: CWFS: 8 mag < R < 15.5 mag; ODGW: 8.0 < H < 14.0 mag respectively.
Detailed information about the selection of GeMS guide stars and the restriction in magnitudes for the CWFS and ODGW guide stars can be found in the GSAOI Guiding Options page.
GSAOI Iterator
The GSAOI Sequence Iterator is a member of a class of instrument iterators. Each works exactly the same way, except that different options are presented depending upon the instrument. The GSAOI iterators are required when the observation is stepping through different GSAOI components. Use this component to change the instrument configuration during the observation, for example, to repeat the same basic observation at two or more filters.
In right panel of the figure below we see a few iterator features (the left panel shows the GSAOI Science Observation).
An iteration sequence ("GSAOI Sequence" in the above image) is set by choosing "GSAOI Sequence" from the "iterator" menu. The table columns in the "GSAOI Sequence Component" are items over which to iterate (four in total). In the example given below, we are iterating over filters. Table rows correspond to iterator steps. When an observing sequence is started, all the values in a row are set at once. Since there are three GSAOI configuration steps in this example, an offset iterator is required. It would be embedded inside the GSAOI sequence iterator (see below). Then, an "observe" element would produce an observe command for each of three filter setups times the number of offsets defined in the offset iterator, using the specified integration time defined in the main GSAOI component.
Rows or columns may be added and removed at will. Rows (iteration steps) may be rearranged using the arrow buttons. Rows can be added or removed by clicking "Add Step" or "Delete Step" buttons, and columns can be deleted by clicking "Delete Item". Adding column can be done by selecting one from the "Available Items" box.
In the above figure, the iteration the table shows the observations for one of the filters. The first twenty exposures are taken with the step 1 configuration (in this case the J filter) with the telescope dithering at each exposure (p, q offsets). Note that in the first 10 exposures the telescope is dithering on-source, with all guiding loops in "guide" mode. For the next 9 exposures, the telescope is dithering "on-sky" (for sky subtraction), with all guiding loops in "freeze" mode. After step 20, the instrument is re-configured with the H filter for the next 20 offset exposures (10 on-source and 10 on-sky).
GSAOI Offset Iterator
The GSAOI Offset Iterator is a member of a offset iterator class. The offset iterator is common to all instruments and is used to define the sequence of dithers and sky offsets to be used. The offset sequence from the example given in the previous section is shown below. The offset sequence can be visualized using the position editor by clicking in the "offset" box at the Target menu. The different offset positions can be visualized in the position editor by selecting different steps in the figure below. This visualization is very useful to check if the selected guide stars are within the CANOPUS patrol field area and the GSAOI detectors during the observation. Detailed information on some of the considerations to be taken into account when setting up offset sequences with GSAOI can be found in the observing strategies page.


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This week's talks in DC appear to be merging around $2 trillion in cuts over the next ten years, but the leftist media does not explain to folks the cuts are not cuts, but merely a slowing of the spending increases. The Debt Wall model calculates the federal debt will rise (on its present course) another $13.8 trillion over the next ten years. Today's $16.4 trillion debt becomes $30.2 trillion in 2022. It also projects the Debt Limit will handcuff Congress on Dec 24th, requiring creative manoeuvrings by the Treasury Dept for the following six weeks.
Six more trillion dollar Deficits are planned and assure there will be no Recession. In essence, the USA federal gov't is bankrupt ... a dead man walking.
Debt Wall chart: http://trendlines.ca/free/economics/DebtWallUSA/DebtWallUSA.htm
Who is the idiot that came up with this deluded lie that our debt is unsustainable? We owe 70% of our debt to ourselves, which is why it is clearly sustainable. It would be nice if the Economist filtered out the deluded conspiracy theorists who a stupid beyond all reason. If our debt was unsustainable, interest rates would be on the rise, the dollar would lose value, and people would be running somewhere else to invest their money, but Europe is in a bigger mess than us. Look, people want something for nothing, so they will always try to buy debt. Our debt represents only one single year of GDP, so it is clearly sustainable.
haha, classic Medicine4theDead. Jumping into condescending conjecture even on topics where you know only enough to be dangerous (yes, you could say I'm doing it back--intentionally hypocritical). Let's clear up a few things.
1) "We owe 70% of our debt to ourselves"-You are referring to the ~30%/25%/13ish% owed to the US govt/US public/Fed, respectively. While I agree that foreign debt is more harmful than domestic, ceteris paribus, that fact in itself doesn't make the debt burden sustainable. Let's dig a bit deeper.
a) Do you think we'd have a problem if we can't pay back the 31% largely held by the Social Security Trust Fund? The fund is beginning to sell rather than accumulate these securities to pay social security pensioners as receipts fall below income. Clearly the government will need to meet this obligation to retirees (not "itself" as you indicate). As it stands now, taking into account present value of future obligations for pensioners would cause this figure to explode to $20.5trn for SS and equivalent figure for Medicare is $42.8trn. If the government were one of the public companies that you despise, these are the types of numbers that you would be seeing reported. Such a company would likely be shut off from the debt markets and equity markets and would have a very good chance of being declared bankrupt OR maybe an activist shareholder could save such a company by replacing the management team given the solid underpinnings of the revenue generating capability of the company and vast room to cut costs.
b) as for the portion held by the public, demographics are not supportive. Investor allocations in bond funds are also at elevated levels. They are unlikely to become even more bond heavy and quite possibly this allocation could decrease.
c)Add in Fed balance sheet expansion and this is another tailwind that is temporary and will actually turn into a headwind if they attempt to shrink it to something closer to a normal level.
2) I agree with your assessment of the US being the best house in a bad neighborhood. The USD is not going to depreciate significantly near term and the US Treasury market is the deepest, most liquid market with record low rates. USD safe haven status gives the US degrees of freedom not enjoyed across much of the world. However, it is a relative game and if we look ahead a couple of decades it is not very hard to see this grip loosen without policy in place to manage the deficit.
3)Whether or not the debt is sustainable depends on policy and outlook for economic growth (tied in with policy + many other factors not linked to policy). The latter buys more flexibility on the former. The good old days of 3-4% GDP growth allowed for ~3% gap in govt spending/GDP over govt revenue/GDP. We may have to look at 1-2% as the new normal. Regardless, spending/GDP is at heightened levels and needs to come down. Although this isn't being talked about much by the media during the fiscal cliff talks and tax the wealthy is making headlines (even though it does very little to address the underlying problem), degree of spending cuts is where the battle will be won or lost.
I'm hopeful, but I think your assertions that debt is sustainable because the government "owes it to itself" (a misnomer) and the fact that it is a year of GDP paper over some very serious issues and concluding that government debt is sustainable on that basis is very misguided.
Slowly I feel happy that there is a crisis in Europe. Obama and the economis should learn what could happen if there is no real debt deduction plan. I feel sorry for thos who blame the republicans everytime. Facts: Debt is unsutanaible and without a proper plan to control social spending, USA will be called Greece in a couple o years...
Where is the evidence to support you deluded belief? There isn't any. What happened when our debt was downgraded? Stocks dropped and more people bought bonds, so your claim is false.
This newspaper, like most of the conservative press, is still stuck in October. You do not offer your freshly and completely vanquished foe incentives to compromise. On the contrary, you offer him the choice of your terms or jumping off a cliff.
'Tis called Realpolitik.
That would work perfectly except the fact that the cliff hurts the republicans more than the democrats tax hikes + military spending cuts hurt the repubs whereas all the dems have to do is swallow a few social program cuts
I'm confused; why does supposed Democratic intransigence on the "necessity" of entitlement cuts (which I am not intending to address here) even matter for the fiscal cliff negotiations? Without anyone doing anything, taxes will go up and spending will go down by some $700 billion dollars, combined. That would go an enormously long way toward closing the deficit, making current entitlement programs more or less sustainable until health care cost inflation takes over in the next decade. Shouldn't these negotiations be about avoiding a new recession in 2013 by making any deficit cutting as economically efficient as possible? Of course, economic efficiency in this instance necessarily involves higher tax rates on the highest earners; that, according to virtually every single credible economic study ever done, produces the most revenue for the least economic cost, so why is the Democratic position unreasonable?
By a 2 to 1 margin, the American people blame the do-nothing Republicans who champion a minority of rich people for the fiscal situation. Good luck next election Republicans for afterwards you will be officially irrelevant.
And the GOP knows President Obama won a mandate in the November elections.
That is why Republican legislators are now considering bringing up President Obama's fiscal-cliff plan (minus the unlimited debt ceiling as the Constitution gives Congress the powers to borrow and tax, and the Treasury borrowing today means Congress having to raise taxes tomorrow to pay back the Treasury's debts) for a vote with no opposition in the House (GOP representatives will vote "Present" for quorum purposes) and no filibuster in the Senate. That way, only Democrats will cast votes for or against President Obama's fiscal-cliff plan.
If Democratic legislators pass the president's plan, then President Obama takes complete responsibility for the anemic economy and the unsustainable budget deficits (raising taxes on the wealthy will cut the budget deficit by only 12 percent or so). If Democratic legislators vote down the president's plan, then Democrats will raise taxes on the middle class and President Obama will suffer a stinging defeat from his own political party.
NEWSFLASH- the election is over and Pres Obama won. Duh. You do understanding winning?
Your comments are a rather sad reminder of how deluded Mission Accomplished Republicans are. When did you incompetents take responsibility for your deficits? Your wars? Your policies? Never. Never. Never. If you think that the American public is going to continually buy your cries of wolf, you are as ignorant as everyone thinks you are.
Your comment is quite provocative. As your arguments are meticulous and persuasive, not even the most experienced policymaker or learned commentator can match you on the substance of this discussion.
President Obama won the fiscal policy debate as well as the presidential election. All GOP legislators can do now is simply move aside and let House and Senate Democrats introduce, debate, vote on and pass President Obama's fiscal-cliff plan with absolutely no input or opposition from the GOP. Only then can President Obama begin to act like a man and take responsibility for his executive record (especially the anemic economic growth and job creation). The People cannot follow a leader who insists on hiding like a coward behind the facade of bipartisanship.
The voters demand action. If President Obama does not step up, then he needs to step down.
As you and I are in complete agreement, I owe you an apology for the tone of my comment of December 11.
Too many excuses have been given to explain away the economic policy failures (see "Excuses, excuses" in the June 4, 2011 issue of The Economist). Congressional Republicans need to move aside so that President Obama can grow up and take responsibility for his presidency (especially the $5 trillion he has added to the national debt).
President Obama is a very skilled orator. But the campaign is over and his talk is now cheap. The voters demand results. President Obama needs to put up or shut up.
Like the Vietnam and Korean wars?
The real fiscal cliff is sometime in the future when US debt levels and unfunded entitlement obligations and the cost of wars fought off the balance sheet become so great that even the Fed can't print enough money to fund the egregious overborrowing necessary and default risk is so high that interest costs crowd out all other forms of program spending. That is where Greece is now with unknown outcome, however that was where Canada was in the early 1990's with a positive outcome yet a painful decade long recovery from the brink of ruin. Unless this reality is faced squarely, any resolution of the current phony fiscal cliff will only hasten the day the real fiscal cliff arrives. Thinking about long term unintended consequences of current actions is what economists are supposed to do. So why isn't anyone doing it?
"Nor is the sum the president proposed to save as a result: $400 billion, just a quarter of the $1.6 billion that he says he is seeking in tax increases."
Should this be $1.6 trillion? 1.6 trillion / 4 = 400 billion.
The Democrats offer is tantamount to a drug addict request: give me one more hit and I promise to be good from now on. Moreover, if you listen to the language being used by the President it appears that it is not about revenues but about sticking it to the rich. The revenues from hiking taxes (on "millioners and billioners", i.e., according to Mr. Obama those who make more than $250K a year) will bring a pittance of around $160B, which is almost meaningless in balancing the budget.
'Stingier methods to increase Social Security payments and raising the age for Medicare eligibility is hardly an 'anathema' to 'left wingers' but to a huge cross section of American voters both right, left and middle. The tendency by The Economist and other media sources to focus 'blame' for resistance to so called entitlement reform on the 'left' is remarkably simplistic and narrow in its take.
For point, the term 'entitlement' is also clearly not wholly understood. Social Security is a 'retirement account' managed by the Federal Government into which a majority of American workers have been making contributions throughout their working lives. Changes are needed but SS must be first viewed as a 'contract' rather than a hand out; American workers will largely not tolerate retroactively changing the terms of that contract.
And that is not a 'left' or 'right' thing but a common sense thing. People expect the promised return on their investment and work.
Doctor (?) Lou, you are wrong my friend. Social security is not, has never been and was never intended to be a retirement account. It was thought of as tax of today's employees to pay for the former ones (I use "employees" carefully for the employer is not paying de facto those taxes; they are taken out of value produced by the employee). The monies paid under Social Security taxes do not go to a separate account for the payor but to the general revenue fund (craftly disguised via meaningless I-owe-you's).
There is a way to convert it into a pension system but the left would never ever agree to it. It means getting the contributions out of the government hands and placing it into individual accounts. And that of course the dreadful "privatization".
Doctor...yes...as in a PhD kind of Doctor in a clinical practice field.
Despite the small contortions you've made in your refutation of my post, the gist of which I'll not directly address for the time being, the fundamental premise that a key intended outcome of Social Security is money paid back at retirement doesn't change.
And I'll note that part of your contortions seem to be in the intriguing and not altogether clear explanation of SS as a 'tax of today's workers to pay for former ones...' That would be to pay for what, exactly? SS also might be seen as a kind of per employee subsidy of the business owner as he or she has the U.S government backing up retirement benefits of their employees.
In that most workers have multiple jobs over a lifetime, SS, unlike medical insurance unfortunately, is able to follow them across employers and return benefits once a certain age is hit; an age typically defined as 'retirement.'In this, is a major strength of the SS system.
Further, SS is taken out of the salary of each employee depending on their levels of salary across jobs thereby paying out more...or less...upon 'retirement.' You are right that SS is not a tax but based on levels of employment and salary. Too often, that 'value' is artificial controlled by employers many of whom never pay individual employees the true 'value' of their productivity.
SS, of course, is not a traditional pension system and was not intended to as such. And this is a good thing in that true pensions are reactive to the market, investment portfolios and the like and can rise and fall with the wind. Well, that is true for most of us in the 99%, anyway. SS is a stable safety net; work, pay in and get a predictable return. Not great by any means but predictable and helpful.
The free market, however, is always there to provide all kinds of additional and add on pension plans as most of us have in one form or another. But regardless of how those investments move along, SS remains our one stable expectation once a certain age is hit.
The accounting processes behind SS have long been manipulated by both parties and certainly need revisions. But, again, this issue still do not change the 'pact' that American workers rightly believe was made with them starting when SS was deducted from their very first paychecks.
And this, my friend, is a perception of the Left, Right and Middle in the U.S. In this was a key point of my original post; that pretending the Right has it down and real answers but for resistance by the 'Left' is flatly incorrect.
The 'pact' that is Social Security is an American perception; a fact that the pandering politicians, all of them but with a unique focus on the Right side of the aisle, still do not get.
Really? Where are you going to put that money? Into the stock market that collapsed recently? Yes, the financial sector says please give us your money so we can lose it again and you can bail us out again.
In this overhyped media created firestorm, where can I find some serious adult policy assessment? Clearly not from TE ... "It is not that Democrats want these things; rather, they assume that Republicans would become much less obdurate in negotiations if such calamities were already unfolding". Well actually, there is nothing calamitous that occurrs on January 1st, there is no shift in the tax code or spending cut legislation that can't be reversed retroactively. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon with the mainscream media, you might want to assess potential reasons why the GOP and the Dems might be better off passing laws in January than right now. For the GOP it is much easier to sell the fact that they cut taxes for the 98% in January than raised taxes for the 2% in December. For the Democrats it is much easier to discuss entitlement reform in January after the spending cuts on defense and other programs are beginning to be enacted ... it gives them a bargaining chip against the GOP who want always to increase defense spending. The resulting expense and tax package negotiated in January could be identical to one hammered out now but in January everyone gets political cover which is really the only currency of any value in Washington these days. The hypocisy and BS continues to be breathtaking to me as I become more and more pessimistic that competent adult leadership will ever return to the USA, but I believe that no deal will be done until January, so please TE, take a stand against media's overblown "fiscal cliff" rhetoric to attempt to turn down the heat on this a bit.
Yes its true Democrats should offer more spending cuts to secure a deal - but the Republican's tax offer is still pretty mild.
The United States is the only country in the industrialized world without a national consumption tax, which could raise enough revenue to wipe out the deficit entirely.
The closest the Republicans are willing to go is a federal tax on contraception and women's hygine products(http://dailycurrant.com/2012/12/05/republicans-offer-tax-increase-tampons/). But clearly they're proposing the so-called 'Tampon Tax' for the wrong reasons.
A full consumption tax on all goods except food is a vital part of any deficit reduction package, and its not even on the table!
I would be very willing to support a consumption tax if we got rid of the income tax system, something like the Fair Tax would work very well.
But if you're just talking about massive tax hikes, forget it.
I actually agree with you on getting rid of the income tax???? So, the debt is a huge problem unless you are going to pay it down??? WT...?
From the whitehouse.gov website, in 2008 US government outlays were 2,982,544 million dollars. In 2012, they are estimated to be 3,795,547 million dollars, a 27% increase in 4 years. Over the same period, annual inflation has averaged 1.08% and the cumulative increase was 7%. Since spending growth is far outpacing inflation, it seems clear to me that the problem is too much spending.
Interestingly, if we could go back to spending levels of 2005 the budget would be in balance this year without tax increases. If we could go back to 2004, we would have a surplus of roughly 170,000 million dollars. I would not really mind paying more taxes if I thought it would solve the problem, but I am certain that whatever I pay the government can spend that and more until we have nothing left.
The main driver of higher spending now is the downturn in the economy. When people are unemployed they collect unemployment. When they're unemployed or working very low paying jobs they're using food stamps and medicaid. When people have good jobs they're not using these services and they're paying taxes.
Not really true, unemployment costs us about 100b a year, or about 1/15 of the deficit.
I have heard others say it is spending on the war in Afghanistan or financial bailouts of banks or shovel ready stimulus jobs.......but in the end I don't think it matters. When the government spends it consumes, it doesn't create wealth. The more it spends the more is consumed and the less capital there is for producers to invest. Consequently growth is reduced and we end up where we are.
If government spending was the secret to wealth creation, Kruschev would have been correct and the old Soviet Union would have buried us. They didn't and it isn't.
No, you are wrong. Investments in infrastructure and education are investments, not spending. Where would FedEx and UPS be without government roads? Google without the government created Internet? Rush Limbaugh without the public airwaves. If you cannot cognitively think things through, you may want to leave the discussion to the grown-ups.
The Soviet Unions wasn't socialist like the northern European democracies of today which have government and trade surpluses, it was an authoritarian command economy.
@Medicine4theDead – perhaps you are not from the United States so your ignorance is understandable. In the US, roads and education are primarily a state and local function. According to the Office of Management and Budget, less than 2 percent of all federal spending went to "ground transportation" in 2012 which includes not just spending on highways, but subsidies for Amtrak and Obama's high-speed rail plans as well. Likewise, the federal department of education did not even exist until 1979 and the expenditures of that department are insignificant relative to the federal budget. Again on the order of 2% of the total.
As for the internet, that is provided by private companies. I used to work for Genuity with Ray Tomlinson – the inventor of email – and I can promise you we were not a government entity. The internet transport links are provided by the same companies that carry long distance telephone traffic and the switching nodes and server farms are private as well. As for the public airwaves, you do understand that the government has nothing to do with their existence don't you? Granted, they coordinate who may use what portion of the spectrum, but the spectrum itself is there whether the government exists or not. That is fundamental physics.
What you, and in honesty many others overlook, is that all the money the government "invests" is money they have taken from someone else. They produce nothing of significance themselves, they are merely middlemen, taking from one and giving to another. If you doubt me, can you name anything they actually produce, a car, a house, an apple? There may be something, but I can't think of anything that I have used.
BTW – your use of cognitively in your post is redundant, much like naval warship or foot pedal.
Perhaps you are a communist traitor living in the US because you are living a lie and in a past that doesn't exist today. Would you also like to tell me about wagon trains in the 1800s? Also, I never said that the government ran the Internet, I said it created it. You blather on and on about something I didn't say like most right wing idiots who are full of themselves. And thank you for illustrating the effectiveness of federal government spending on roads and education.
The government manages the licenses that control the use of the spectrum, so without the government the public airwaves would be useless to all but a few players as it was when radios first came out.
"the money the government 'invests' is money they have taken from someone else" This is nothing but rubbish. Where is the proof? Where? This is just mindless right wing drivel used to justify the taking of services and not paying for them. Business makes money because of the government and not in spite of it. Liberty has a cost, but apparently moochers don't understand this.
The government gets money from 1.)taxes and fees - money it takes from someone today 2.) debt - money it is taking from future tax payers 3.) inflation - creating money in excess of the nations goods and services - taking it from anyone that holds dollar denominated assets.
The government doesn't create anything of value. The roads, damns, schools, etc., that you value are paid for with funds taken from someone else and the services are provided by people - not some faceless government.
I won't deny the need for some government, but I am not as enthusiastic a supporter as you. Remember, Hitler led a government, as did Stalin, Mao, Nixon, Obama and Lincoln. Any government strong enough to lift people up is strong enough to smash them down. Works out OK for you if you are on the government's side - not so well if it is against you.
Such ridiculous hyperbole ("gory" cuts and related "calamities") is not confined to The Economist; it's everywhere. This is worse than when every major media outlet and talking head said last year that not increasing the debt limit would cause default, which was a 100% falsehood but nearly everyone bought it without a moment of thought.
People: There is no "cliff;" it's not even a curb. (The real cliff is what we'll face in a few years if spending is not slashed and the dollar becomes trash). I'll take the sequester, tax restoration, and temporary spending recession ANY DAY; at least the growth in U.S. government debt (now a whopping 100% of GDP) might be slower than it was.
Those so-called "negotiations" to "save us" from the "cliff" are merely petty arguments over how best to keep Americans spending instead of repairing their balance sheets and how to ensure that "defense" contractors can keep devising new ways to provoke enemies, bomb the innocent and weak, and create more terrorists who hate the U.S. (so we can justify even more military spending!). Both sides of the aisle are demonstrably opposed to any discusson about whether the government is out of control and are desperate to keep up the illusion of prosperity by goosing spending even more.
It is simply bad economics to argue that just because government spending is added into GDP that it is good for the economy, that spending must be maintained because people are still unemployed, and that tax cuts and tax simplification benefit the rich at the expense of the poor.
So bring on the so-called "cliff." Better than arguing over two ways to raise $800 billion in more taxes so we can maintain even faster spending! Or perhaps bring us some actual spending cuts and some faint evidence to give hope for future discipline. But don't try to sell us that the most important thing in the world is that the lowest-regarded group in the world (politicians) simply must get their way or else we'll all die in the streets from sickness and terrorism. No serious person buys that guff anymore.
Are you forgetting that tax revenue as a percent of GDP is at its lowest level in over 50 years (with the exception of 1989 and 1990)? Letting taxes return to what they were under Clinton would still leave the US with lower tax revenue than the average of the second half of the 20th century.
At the end of Clinton's tenure we had a surplus AND the benefits the Tea Party is telling us we can't afford. Yes we need to trim Medicare and Social Security but we don't need to gut these programs.
Once the economy improves we need to rescind the middle-class tax cuts but for now we can only afford to let the upper income tax cuts lapse. Cutting deductions needs to take place in addition to returing to the pre-Bush tax rates until we've paid down the debt.
Thanks for posting. No, not forgetting or denying that. We are agreed we need some cutting, not gutting, of programs like Soc Sec and those cuts should spare the neediest; tide them over and cut the real waste. We would probably also agree that the best places to cut are military interventionism, the insane war on drugs, and virtually all corporate welfare.
Suppose for a minute that someone in Congress proposed a law that would abandon tax revenue and place a major industry off the books and totally outside the law. Say it is an industry that employs more than 1% of the population and is patronized by more than 25%. Abandoned tax revenue would be in the tens of billions a year, or more. Neither the employees nor their employers would pay any taxes. Nor would there be any taxes on the product, or many of the supplies. Under the new law there would be no purity, safety, labeling or even packaging standards for the products. New products could be marketed at any time with no oversight. Teenagers and even children would be recruited as customers and salesmen. There would be no safety standards for the employees, no pensions, no vacations, no sick pay, no health care, no collective bargaining. The products could be made anywhere including residential locations in unsupervised factories that pollute, poison and often explode or burn down. Employers could fire, physically punish or kill employees at will, but pay themselves huge bonuses and collect unimaginable perquisites. Dissatisfied employees would have no recourse, except violence. Since the industry officially would not exist, all traffic would be covert i.e., smuggled. Who is better at smuggling than international organized crime: the CIA, al-Qaeda, the Taliban perhaps? Competitors, denied due process would settle disputes by violence creating a feudal secondary government with large armies and a black market for military weapons, equally unregulated.
Would anyone vote for such a bill?
To further complicate the matter assume that while the industry is totally unregulated contact with the products (direct or implied) will be a crime that has severe penalties. With the industry underground, enforcement would be random. Overzealous enforcers would cram the prisons with mostly harmless people (including your children, people you know, love and depend on) costing more billions. Prisons become crime universities. Your natural rights as a human being will be subordinated to the enforcement effort. Your property could be seized on mere suspicion.
Would anyone vote for that now?
Surprise, Congress has already passed it, bit by bit and it's known collectively as the War On Drugs and it has been being lost for over 100 years.
Well put. Thanks.
The Democrats aren't offering much but the Republicans haven't made credible proposals to cut spending and no detail on what deductions they propose cutting.
For Social Security the minimum benefit should at least retain its current inflation indexing but for larger benefits the indexing could be lowered (or eliminated) to cut costs.
Medicare benefits received that exceed the amount paid in should be billed to estates. Most estates wouldn't be able to pay the bill and it would lower inheritances but in many cases the government would receive at least partial reimbursement.
These changes would hit middle income Americans (like me) the hardest.
Finally the caps on income subjet to Social Security and Medicare taxes should be eliminated.
As The Economist pointed out a couple weeks back, 70% more revenue can be generated by capping deductions at $50,000 than by letting the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy.
The insistence that these marginal rates rise seems to be driven purely by politics, not economics.
Nor do I have any confidence that Pelosi would deliver the votes of House Democrats if they do not absolutely have to give ground on entitlement spending. When Rahm Emanuel advocated a smaller health reform bill that could win over moderate Republicans, it was Pelosi who convinced Obama to try instead for the bill that achieved as many Democratic priorities as possible.
How wicked of Ms Pelosi to convince Obama to try for a bill that did what she, Obama and the majority of representatives were all elected with a mandate to do. Obama has been far too patient with an obstructive MINORITY.
The US simply does not have a deficit problem, nor does it have an entitlement problem. It has an unsustainable, unaffordable tax cut problem brought on by people who preferred convenient lies - "tax cuts increase revenue" - to hard arithmetic. If tax was levied at the rate it was under GH Bush rather than under GW Bush there would be a structural surplus.
I never said that Pelosi was wicked, only that it would be unwise to put much faith in her willingness to deliver House Democrats if their votes are needed to pass any compromise bill that Boehner and Obama may agree upon. If you think that the Democratic Party has a monopoly on all that is good and pure, then you will probably be a fan of her intransigence. But, whether good or bad, the fact remains that she has never been an advocate of compromise.
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Ubuntu 9.10 (the "Karmic Koala") will be officially released later this month along with the other distributions in the Ubuntu family, but coming out of the Canonical camp yesterday was the beta releases for these Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems. There's not a whole lot to say at this point if you have been keeping up with all of our Ubuntu coverage over the past few months, but if you haven't, click here. The Ubuntu 9.10 beta release announcement can be read on the mailing list...
umm how about a link to the software download page when new software is released. just a suggestion.
I did not test this beta, but all dailys so far had got Xorg problems. With intel onboard Q45 64 bit (32 was interestingly not affected) or nv oss driver (32+64 bit) top showed 100% systemload for Xorg on quad core intel cpus. nv binary did not show this effect.
Runs exceptionally well on my Eee 1000H tbh.
Runs great with my AMD Radeon HD 4850 with the opensource and proprietary stack.
cant wait for final version
runs great here, per usual.
Did somebody check:
ps aux|grep /bin/X
in live/hd install with intel/nv oss driver?


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You don't need to answer. Though you might not like the outcome.
I told this friend of mine, Yeah I've been pulled over a time for something I thought was questionable, but I told him I was cool to the cop and not an a**hole and the cop was cool too and that was that.
My friend said I've been pulled over for a stupid reason and the cops always hassled me. He said I did'nt say anything wrong to him.
I told my friend your an a**hole with an attitude you don't have to say anything! Cops pick up on that like anybody else would, so you just set yourself up.
Cops look for people like him.
In the for what it's worth department... I work in EMS as a paramedic. Yes, cops can be jerks, just like anyone else, it's called being human.
But I'm always amazed (as we are often at the same call) how people think it's perfectly fine to be rude and uncooperative with the officers. I've seen their job up close and I don't want it! (Of course, they don't want mine either LOL)
It's always in your own best interest to be nice to a cop. Nearly every vehicle and person on the road has something a cop can write a ticket over if he or she looks hard enough. Why give them a reason to look? I've seen lots of folks who quite honestly could have been hauled off to jail under the law, who have gotten a stern warning and that's it because they were treated with respect.
Does getting pulled over make you mad? Probably. Is it the cops fault because he's doing his job? Nope. They're just out there looking for the people who are making your and my world a little more dangerous. If you ever sat in dispatch for awhile you'd be amazed at how many people pulled over for a traffic stop have a warrant out for their arrest. The cops figure if you're breaking a little law, you may have broken a big one. May sound hokey, but it's true.
I don't think it's being rude to refuse to answer questions that are specifically designed to manipulate one into incriminating himself. The questions they ask capitolize on the good manners and belief system you were taught as a child. But, as with all things, some judgement needs to come into play.
Under the guise of protecting the public, this country is blindly crashing head-long into a police state - the sooner we recognize that, the better.
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Tell the cops you're not saying a word next time they pull you over. A man of strong ideals such as yourself should consider no action but this. Stick to your beliefs.
Let us know how things work out. I'm pulling for you.
Of course, you may want to consider another plan of action. I find that obeying the laws of the land and having legal equipment on my vehicles gives the cops no reason to pull you over. Try it sometime. It truly drives the cops crazy.
The police came to our house last week and my father law who does not speak English let them in. They told us that our burglar alarm was going off, we told them that we do not have a burglar alarm. They then asked to see our I.D.s and then informed us that we were not the owners our house and would have to step out on the lawn until the rightful owner was contacted. We refused, in the mean time one of the police men who was walking around the property realised that the alarm they were hearing was not coming from our house.
Turns out they were supposed to be at the house directly behind ours which has the same address number but opn a different street.
Hmmmm, around here tickets for inop lights (and other equipment) can be turned in with proof the inoperative equipment has been repaired; and usually with no fines attached. I recently got a ticket for having a license plate cover on that was "too dark" which made the plate harder to read at shorter distances than normal. The state trooper and I were polite to each other during the stop. I stopped by my town's police station the next day, showed an on-duty officer the cover had been removed and he signed the ticket reflecting a corrective action was made. Then, I mailed the signed ticket back to the state - situation over, no fine.
Like Hoop, I wish you luck too. And, please keep us updated.
jd: LMAO!
crwmdpmr: good thing those cops weren't responding to a shooting call or (heaven forbid) - an "officer down" - you might be history right now. Good to see you posting again - hope all is well with you and yours.
My original post recommended two videos. If you watch those, you'll simply have a better idea of when to speak and when not to.
How can cops expect to garner respect when they do the strong-arm, revenue-oriented b-s that they do (seatbelts, for example)? Trying to serve two masters will never, ever work.
I don't know guys, it seems to me ya'll oughta be complaining about the agencies that created the bs laws; the police are only enforcers. Your city, county, state, and federal officials are the true villians here.
Farside, you are probably right (about who to complain to).
But if I hear one more cop say "I don't make the laws - I'm only doing my job", I'm gonna' puke...
The cops around here are great, we have more of a problem with judges letting repeat offenders go with just a slap on the wrist.
I got pulled over once for going 7 mph over the speed limit, I had forgotten that the vehicle that I was driving had slightly over-sized tires (not huge, just bigger than stock). The cop approached and told me why he pulled me over and took my license and registration back to his car. I was polite and friendly and so was he. When he came back with my license and reg, he told me that he was just giving me a warning. I asked him if he would mind getting up to 70 mph (the speed limit) when he got back on the road and holding it there so that I could tail him and check my speedometer to be able to adjust for tire size. He told me that when he got to 70, he would flash his lights (which he did and all of the cars around us suddenly slowed down ). A few miles down the road I turned off and he kept going.
The very next day, I was behind a cop in a local small town and I looked down to see my speedometer was at 25 mph (the speed limit) and the cop was pulling ahead. We both stopped at a small store in the town, so I asked him if he was exceeding the speed limit. He looked at me like he just ate something very sour and denied it. I went home and told DH (who was driving that vehicle to work daily) that he might want to watch his speed in that town for a while, the cop would probably be watching for it.
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>The very next day, I was behind a cop in a local small town and I looked down to see my speedometer was at 25 mph (the speed limit) and the cop was pulling ahead. We both stopped at a small store in the town, so I asked him if he was exceeding the speed limit. He looked at me like he just ate something very sour and denied it. I went home and told DH (who was driving that vehicle to work daily) that he might want to watch his speed in that town for a while, the cop would probably be watching for it.
Frosty, I think I was driving behind you recently. The car in front of me had a bumper sticker that says "BAD COP!! NO DONUT!!!
That was you, wasn't it?WayneBTW, how are the chickens?
The problem is that the legal system is for revenue generation. The police should have thier powers stripped to only the most bare essentials. Violent crimes, theft, property damage. I would go so far as saying vehicle enforcement on a small scale. But eliminate fines. Breaking a law should not generate revenue for the county or city. That basically makes cops commision. If you speed you should get a point on your license. If your license gets suspended, too bad for you. Don't speed. If you don't have police pulling you over for nonsense that would free up alot of them to do other stuff. Or better yet, for them to get jobs that aren't paid for by me. I personally don't like cops professionally. I do however like most of them that I meet personally. If it weren't for the illegality of one of my personal decissions however I would probably see them in a different light. Either way as a whole I find them to be power hungry abusers that need to be help much more accountable for thier actions.
I, for one, am sick of the cops and the whole rotten, stinkin' legal and judicial system. I'm sick of these bas*ards pulling me over for any little infraction, such as a license plate light not working, or (heaven forbid) I may not be wearing my seat belt!
And to renew my CDL, I have to now provide an original birth certificate, and a social security card! I haven't had a ss card since it got washed and dried forty years ago.
Here's two interesting videos. The first is a law professor talking about the 5th Amendment; the second is corroboration by a former police officer.
These guys clearly explain how the police will use a person's proclivity to talk to obtain admission of guilt and to trap you into lying to an investigator. In the future, when I get stopped by a cop, I am going to ask the cop a yes or no question: "am I required by law to answer your questions?"
I suspect a cop has no legal authority to demand you answer anything.
Law proffessor: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865&hl=en
Former cop: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6014022229458915912&q=&hl=en
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Phoronix: Arch Linux Is Switching To Systemd
The Arch Linux developers feel it's time to switch from using SysVInit to systemd...
welcome to poetering-OS. Created because pulseaudio had a problem.
I know some people are going to rage about how terrible systemd is, but it is actually really nice. Arch has been moving towards using a more standard startup sequence for some time, moving stuff out of /etc/rc.conf into the standard configuration files for the backends (the most recent example is networking.)
Systemd works well and is standard. Arch is about using standard configurations. Using Systemd rather than having a boot sequence that is custom for Arch makes sense.
Systemd is evil.
But i guess it was forced on them to keep things working in the future.
besides BUYING distribution boxes so indirectly paying devs, reporting bugs and some small patches?
No, but does that mean that just because LP is putting out lots of code any of it is any good at all?
Are you kidding? Sound deamons have problems, lets create pulseaudio! Pulseaudio has some rt problems, lets create some daemon that fucks up rt for jack users! Pulseaudio has some problems during boot, write a new init system! One that makes things harder for everybody else! Oh and usurp udev, so in the future everybody will be forced to use systemd!
Next step: registry?
This is a good thing for Linux standardization. Right now people offering builds of software that need access to the system init scripts, have to deal with a bunch of different systems. If everyone uses systemd, that problem is solved.
Luddites tend to be hairy, but don't confuse them with neckbeards.
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Julie James Ott figures she's half way to eliminating genetically modified organisms from the scratch she feeds 450 layer hens at the family ranch in the north Animas Valley.
"I've eliminated soy and substituted sunflower seeds to give them protein, fiber and oil," Ott said recently in the barnyard as she spread scratch, a seed mixture, for throngs of red star, black star and Americana hens. "My winter project is to find a way to eliminate corn feed, which also is GMO."
She also feeds her hens spent barley from Ska Brewing Co. and cabbage leaves and lettuce cores from Zia Taqueria.
Ott is among the growing opposition to GMOs, most recently highlighted by the narrow defeat in California of Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of raw or processed food made from plants or animals with certain genetic changes.
Proponents of GMOs say genetic engineering has been proved scientifically safe. GMOs, they say, can improve desired traits in plants and animals, produce larger yields and increase resistance to disease and unfavorable climate. The technology also can lead to better human and animal health, they say.
Opponents say genetic modification, around since the 1990s, has not been tested thoroughly and goes into products unlabeled. Genetic alteration can cause reproductive aberrations in animals, adversely affect human health and can contaminate non-GMO crops through insects, wind or pollen, they say.
No one apparently can say for sure how many GMOs are found in Southwest Colorado.
Darrin Parmenter, director of the Colorado State University Extension office in Durango, said as far as he knows, there is no GMO corn or alfalfa grown in La Plata County.
Ronnie Posey, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Durango, seconds Parmenter.
"I'm not aware of GMO crops in the county," Posey said.
Richard Parry of Fox Fire Farms, who raises cattle and sheep organically for big-auction sales, doesn't use GMO feed. But he estimated that 99 percent of corn feed probably is GMO and 90 percent of soy protein feed is GMO.
Basin Coop feed department manager Don Dukart carries organic chicken scratch and organic soy feed that he buys from out of the area. But he also mixes his own organic hen scratch.
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Foes of GMOs are speaking out.
"I don't want my money to support GMOs because they manipulate what nature intended," Ott said. "GMOs produce a monoculture that destroys our top soil."
The public must have the choice of whether to buy products with GMOs, said Ott, whose egg cartons prominently announce they are soy-free.
Laurie Hall, who has 80 acres near Cortez, 40 of them in non-GMO alfalfa and hay, raises organic vegetables to serve at her Farm Bistro restaurant in Cortez.
"GMOs are risky," Hall said. "We just don't know all the ramifications because they can cross-pollinate.
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