Sentences with phrase «power over the system»

and it's futile to now imagine any genuine power over that system.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

«It's not only a shift in the physical generation of power, but also the power over the system in terms of who is in control of it and who can benefit from it.»

Although Bitcoin Core is currently the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, the five developers with commit access to that particular software client do not have any sort of tyrannical power over the system.

Blockchains enable us to run systems without concentrating power over those systems in the hands of a small fraction of the populations that use them.

Not exact matches

Power generator Pacific Energy has reported a 1 per cent fall in profit over the last financial year despite record earnings from its Kalgoorlie Power Systems and hydro - electric businesses.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Google's Android operating system that powers millions of smartphones worldwide, for example, counts over 1.4 billion monthly active users.

The extent of the impact shows the power the United States exerts over the global financial system through the dollar clearing process.

Its ArcAid basketball training system detects a shot's power, direction and height, comparing that data with the ideal trajectory and tracking improvement over time.

According to Cambridge, Its ArcAid basketball training system detects a shot's power, direction and height, comparing that data with the ideal trajectory and tracking improvement over time.

Unlike many central banks, Canada's monetary authority has little regulatory power over the banking system.

The change, it argued, will result in incomplete information and weaker legal powers for parliamentarians who, under the old system, have better control over where the money will flow and how it will be spent.

Of the more than 300,000 solar power systems the company has installed, the majority are under leases and PPAs and are contracted to generate more than $ 8 billion in customer payments over the next 20 years, and up to $ 4.8 billion more with customer renewals after year 20.

In 2014, nearly twice as many residential solar systems were installed over the year before — and nearly 2,000 Nevadans now have their own solar power, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

In a federal court filing, Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle unit, said it was scaling back some of its claims over Uber violating its patents on LiDAR, a remote - sensing system powering Waymo's driverless car technology.

Little - understood is that the Fed has vast powers over how the financial system works — credit standards, check - clearing systems, community lending.

Last September, a boutique firm in Washington, called Zerodium, which sells flaws to governments and corporations, announced a $ 1 million bounty for anyone who would turn over an exploit in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system — the same operating system used to power the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due to his influence over the cocoa price, blamed the rising power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position - taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors more difficult.

How did we arrive at a point where national credit reporting and scoring systems have such power over consumers» lives?

In December 2016, CEO Elon Musk teased a new «Tesla Supercharger V3» with over 350 kW power output and off - grid solar and Powerpack systems.

Unchecked corporate cash in the form of political donations and lobbying expenditures has the power to exert undue influence over public policy and regulatory systems and threaten our democracy.

It was given control over note issue in the 1920s and then progressively acquired exchange control powers and controls over the banking system.

Switzerland and Liechtenstein are the only two jurisdictions left, where the power of politicians is limited and therefore offering the best protection for clients from all over the world when it comes to private property rights, especially when kept in hard assets stored outside the banking system.

Puerto Rico's energy system currently routes electricity over long distances, which creates choke points for power, and the responsibility for these power lines that traverse the sparsely populated parts of the island fall to PREPA.

Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.

To replace the Treasury conducting its fiscal operations independently from the banking system, New York banks urged more power over public finances and to establish the Federal Reserve to increase the supply of money (a more «elastic» issue) in response to banking needs.

Where Bitcoin's transaction speeds average 7 transactions per second, new blockchain - based currencies are already approaching thousands of transactions per second; Bitshares claims they can process 100,000 per second.In fact, a newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada, has already begun to use a micropayment system to charge per article for its news content and projects earning over $ 100,000 in digital revenue.Blockchain could tilt the balance of power towards individuals, not publishing powerhouses.As mentioned previously, YouTube and Medium have dramatically increased content creators» access to audiences and established a more democratic, popularity - based promotional scheme.

Over 60 utilities and ISOs throughout North America trust Rodan Energy to manage their Demand Response resources to ensure a reliable power system.

[66] Moreover, the evidence in the record favours a finding that the siting of radiocommunication antenna systems is at the core of the federal power over radiocommunication.

Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

I assume, from my limited understanding, Empire is not the nation state, but it is the essence of triumphalism and systems of oppression that create power structures for the said empire over an OTHER / S.

Given a system in which there are no genuine causal relationships at all (except God's actions) it becomes especially curious to favor one kind of appearance of power over another.

No Islam is a Nazi style polical system supported by sex perverted men who want power over women to control them and make them sex slaves.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

That is to say that although the agent's power is dependent upon the nervous system in that it is performed in and with it, nonetheless that same power is exerted over the nervous system and indeed over any particular neuron that fires or is constrained from firing in the course of the action.

The liberation viewpoint stressed pulling control over the natural resources of poor countries out from under Western power so that the developmental process could continue under autonomous, socialist political systems.

Of course, if you're taught over and over by the rock mythology, or even by PBS or the NYT, that the Righteous Artist ought to say the equivalent of «F# $ @ You» to the likes of the «military - industrial establishment,» the «system,» or the «Power,» you might assume that you ought to say the words themselves to something a bit more obviously impacting your life, such as your ex-girlfriend.

Greider portrays the economy as a system in which individual people have very little voice or decision - making power over their own lives.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

Most important, Taylor argues, «the practice of execution is a terrorizing tactic that over time creates illegitimate state power»; the eventual result is a corrupt and undemocratic political system — in fact, what else can you expect when you give the government absolute power over life and death?

But what else should we expect from an educational system whose primary social function is to monitor competition over the scarce resources of wealth and power?

His mature and most profound reflections on the scope of judicial power and the role of the judiciary in the American constitutional system came in relation to the debate over Dred Scott.

Having failed to find that ultimate and changeless principle or system of principles that no doubt can corrupt, Western rationality begins to exult ever more in the power it has gained over physical reality during its long pilgrimage through the inconclusiveness of history.

I can be a bit stubborn when it comes to being sick, I hate admitting that my immune system has let down and usually try to just «power through and get over it.»

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.

«The announcer said over the loudspeaker system that there had been a power failure in the building and that it would take 20 minutes to repair,» says Elliott.

, the power of Amazon - and particularly their review system - is a huge factor in the success of a book, as their algorithm greatly favors books with over 50 reviews.