Unemployment benefits are funded by unemployment insurance which is paid for by employers. The real cost of hiring someone is artificially inflated by this insurance.
While a company may be willing to pay $20/hr, you're only getting $18/hour after the insurance is paid (for example, I'm making up these numbers.)
As for being able bodied, only able bodied people are eligible for unemployment. Some of the criteria are that they be able, willing and available to work.
If you are not able to work you are not unemployed, you are unemployable and there are other state programs for this kind of thing.
This money didn't come from nowhere, and even the people accepting it aren't getting back what they've put into the system.
Is he talking about the same cars that can't fit an odd sized persone comfortably? I'm only 6'5" and I don't fit well in most cars.
Or is he talking about the auto industry that puts all the radio controls in the reach of one person, but the speakers 4 inches behind the heads of the people in back?
How about the door lock knob right along the door where I'd like to rest my arm. Or on the side of the door where its triggered by my knee resting against the door.
Air conditioning is only for the people in front apparently.
In pursuit of aerodynamics, the back glass cuts through the headroom of the backseat, sloping downward to the trunk well before the back end of the seating area.
Nature has produced the best UI and many of its products don't require manuals (eat the things that smell good, screw the things that look good, etc...)
The GPL doesn't authorize RMS to come into your place of business and make you pay for an audit. Also, he would have the burden of proof put upon him in a civil trial, where you'd have the burden of proof in defending yourself against the BSA (hey, you agreed to the license).
Of course you could pirate everything and never sign a contract binding you to the BSA's contacts. Then they'd have to gather evidence in a more normal fashion and prove that you don't possess licenses for all the software you are running.
Indiana Jones and the search for Jar-Jar...It did happen a long time ago, and I'm quite sure that if I became Darth Vader I would have shipped his ass far away.
It doesn't say all the other people were acquitted either. If you arrest both sides of a phone conversation and have one side plea bargain to get their freedom in exchange for testifying, they were hardly innocent.
It was also referring to 2000. How many of those cases haven't finished up in court yet?
Nobody has mentioned the joys of torturing the students that have cheated. I would suggest announcing in class an "amnesty" period of approcximately 2 minutes where cheaters could stand up and say "I cheated". The rest would go to whatever disciplinary committee, receive and F, have their car repossessed, kicked in the groin...etc.
My main thrust, even if I didn't frame it well is that both boxing and chess require an investment of the ego. They also both reward the victor with a sense of dominance over the other person.
With boxing, this is fairly obvious. Typically after a fight, one person feels victorious, and the other feels like they got their ass kicked.
For chess players, who generally consider themselves better than other people because of their mental superiority (sound familiar?), the lack of any valid excuse when a person loses can bruise an ego. It takes a brave step to bare your ego to the glare of a chessboard, where competition is actually fair, compared to taking up other activities where a slight miscalculation will not be judged so harshly.
Along these lines, blitz chess on the internet has been flourishing. One reason for this is that you can play a lot of games, and playing a lot is fun. I think another reason is that a 5 minute game doesn't require the ego investment that a tournament game demands. Who cares if you lose when you can just turn around and play again to help forget about the loss?
In other sports and other games, you can make a lot of mistakes and blame a lot of other people for things that go wrong. But there is nobody to point fingers at in boxing and chess and mistakes are often unrecoverable.
One of the things about chess is that to play it assuming that your opponent knows what you are doing. This means you have to make your pieces work together and that an attack will eventually from that. You can't merely attack in chess.
I'd imagine that playing 6 hours a day, assuming that your opponent knows everything you are doing would help to develop the paranoid parts of the brain.
In my personal experience, its more like boxing. In both chess and boxing, you have no place to hide and nobody to blame, except yourself. All moves by your opponent are done in plain view and its only your training and preparation that will see you through.
The two are obviously different in that one is 90% physcial, and the other is 100% mental, but the investment of the ego in both are quite similar.
Both chess and boxing are about setting up the opponent and taking them down. Chess in particular is quite cruel to the loser because there is no room for making excuses.
The comparison to Rubik's cube is a bit wrong since Rubik's has been solved. Chess has some definite patterns that are instantly recognizable, but it also deals in vague terms with space, time, lines that really can't be quantified but can be estimated.
But you're right, chess is not like war, except to those people reading about it in the papers every day...thing moves from place to place, destroys other thing...etc.
Clinton was in office when this happened and Les Aspen was Secretary of Defense. I believe it was Aspen that took the fall for the politicians overruling the general about the use of armor in this particular incident.
The politicians didn't want armor in there because they didn't want it looking like a war. This ultimately cost the lives of several Americans. The general should have fought harder for his men and the politicians should have listened to the general.
That, or I'd like to hear the politicians come out and say, "we considered 19 American deaths acceptable if we can avoid the stigma of being a bully." Like that will happen.
From what I can tell digital cable works a bit like jpeg compared to a bitmap. It seems to spend the majority of its data on the really active portions within a screen (a personse face for example) and less bandwidth goes toward the more plain areas. The net effect I've noticed is that detailed things tend to be a bit sharper, but that uncomplicated things tend to be pixelated (with huge pixels). Large patches of red or shadowy scenes with black tend to be the times when it is most inferior to analog. Detailed vibrant scenes seem to be better than analog.
It doesn't appear to use a fixed bandwidth in updating the picture, it just appears to use as much as is necessary to get by.
These are just my guesses from my observations while watching it redraw the screens slowly when cable is acting up.
One last thing to note is the hockey test:
The puck is much more visible with digital cable than analog.
That said, my regular tvs seem to be more limited by cable than by their ability to display a picture.
Have I bought every album containing a song I downloaded and liked? No, of course not. But I've bought more music overall because of my ability to first find and listen to it for free.
I think this is perhaps what the RIAA is fighting most of all. It is very important that you not be able to purchase your music accurately or else they will lose potential sales of most of their library.
I think what they fear the most is that people won't buy an album for one song any longer. I know I used to buy albums because I liked one song I heard on the radio and thought that band would be good if it sounded anything like that. I was definitely wrong.
There are definitely albums worth buying, but I'll no longer spend $18 on one song.
Every company that signed exclusive distribution contracts with microsoft should be fined $1.1 billion.
Anyone that wants to continue using a MS product must pay again the amount they spent to get that product in the first place. This will be their penalty for contributing to the extension of a monopoly.
I think this would be the best solution. I know Linux could pick up the slack for the more tech savvy but I doubt Apple could meet production for the screaming hordes running their way.
I was thinking something along the lines of $1 billion worth of software delivered to all the people who have ever purchased anything from MS. But, instead of retail pricing to measure that $1 billion, we would only count the marginal cost of the software (consumers do have to pay for shipping). So, I figure they could put all their MS products on a couple DVD's and distribute them to the first 500 million people that pay for the shipping.
If gravity were to propogate at merely the speed of light the force exerted on the earth by the sun would no longer be perpendicular to path of earth around the sun. This would result in the earth spiraling outward away from the sun.
Think about it. An object moving in a circle at a constant rate requires a force to be constantly acting on it perpendicular to the path its is currently traveling, not perendicular to the path it was traveling 8 minutes ago.
From http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.h tml
"These causality problems would be solved without any change to the mathematical formalism of GR, but only to its interpretation, if gravity is once again taken to be a propagating force of nature in flat spacetime with the propagation speed indicated by observational evidence and experiments: not less than 2 x 10^10c"
That's a damn site faster than c. To me, when talking in the context of the earth, this is effectively instant.
Its only nonsensical crap if you think I'm proposing we build matter constructors/destructors with every router. However in the context of this thread, as long as we are going to be as impractical as drilling through the earth, we might as well go all the way. Some might regard this as funny. I would think that if this is nonsensical crap, drilling through the earth might have been as well. Of course you drilled further down into this thread which might make you a nonsensical reader, then commented on it...
Of course others may regard the idea that gravity propogates faster than light as "interesting".
I think this would only be from the perspective of the tachyons...that is, they would arrive younger than when you sent them, but not before.
Now, if you held the tachyons in place and accelerated the earth to faster than lightspeed and returned to the tachyons, then you might be there before you left.
In fact, if we get back early enough I'm gonna save that cat from the box.
If these companies paid taxes on that money that they donated then perhaps they might be able to expect something in return.
However, if these are truly donations, you are not allowed to expect any financial considerations for donations that are written off.
This is simply a matter of whether the school wants to make cash from research. Frankly I'm not impressed by 5% of their budget coming from research. I'll bet that it eats up a great deal of professors time. This is time that could be spent with actual students who apparently are subsidizing this along with the state taxpayers.
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Guy goes to the doctor.
Doctor says, "you've got 6 months to live. I advise you move to Oklahoma and marry one of the local women."
Guy says, "Will that help me live longer?"
Doctor says, "No, but it will seem like it."
Unemployment benefits are funded by unemployment insurance which is paid for by employers. The real cost of hiring someone is artificially inflated by this insurance.
While a company may be willing to pay $20/hr, you're only getting $18/hour after the insurance is paid (for example, I'm making up these numbers.)
As for being able bodied, only able bodied people are eligible for unemployment. Some of the criteria are that they be able, willing and available to work.
If you are not able to work you are not unemployed, you are unemployable and there are other state programs for this kind of thing.
This money didn't come from nowhere, and even the people accepting it aren't getting back what they've put into the system.
The best user interface is in the car industry?
Is he talking about the same cars that can't fit an odd sized persone comfortably? I'm only 6'5" and I don't fit well in most cars.
Or is he talking about the auto industry that puts all the radio controls in the reach of one person, but the speakers 4 inches behind the heads of the people in back?
How about the door lock knob right along the door where I'd like to rest my arm. Or on the side of the door where its triggered by my knee resting against the door.
Air conditioning is only for the people in front apparently.
In pursuit of aerodynamics, the back glass cuts through the headroom of the backseat, sloping downward to the trunk well before the back end of the seating area.
Nature has produced the best UI and many of its products don't require manuals (eat the things that smell good, screw the things that look good, etc...)
The GPL doesn't authorize RMS to come into your place of business and make you pay for an audit. Also, he would have the burden of proof put upon him in a civil trial, where you'd have the burden of proof in defending yourself against the BSA (hey, you agreed to the license).
Of course you could pirate everything and never sign a contract binding you to the BSA's contacts. Then they'd have to gather evidence in a more normal fashion and prove that you don't possess licenses for all the software you are running.
Indiana Jones and the search for Jar-Jar...It did happen a long time ago, and I'm quite sure that if I became Darth Vader I would have shipped his ass far away.
(Actually, I'd have nailed him to a tree)
When a sock attains a certain enlightenment it bursts asunder. This is where dust comes from.
Other clothes also shed bits of material to create more dust and this is why our clothes seem to get get smaller.
It doesn't say all the other people were acquitted either. If you arrest both sides of a phone conversation and have one side plea bargain to get their freedom in exchange for testifying, they were hardly innocent.
It was also referring to 2000. How many of those cases haven't finished up in court yet?
Nobody has mentioned the joys of torturing the students that have cheated. I would suggest announcing in class an "amnesty" period of approcximately 2 minutes where cheaters could stand up and say "I cheated". The rest would go to whatever disciplinary committee, receive and F, have their car repossessed, kicked in the groin...etc.
My main thrust, even if I didn't frame it well is that both boxing and chess require an investment of the ego. They also both reward the victor with a sense of dominance over the other person.
With boxing, this is fairly obvious. Typically after a fight, one person feels victorious, and the other feels like they got their ass kicked.
For chess players, who generally consider themselves better than other people because of their mental superiority (sound familiar?), the lack of any valid excuse when a person loses can bruise an ego. It takes a brave step to bare your ego to the glare of a chessboard, where competition is actually fair, compared to taking up other activities where a slight miscalculation will not be judged so harshly.
Along these lines, blitz chess on the internet has been flourishing. One reason for this is that you can play a lot of games, and playing a lot is fun. I think another reason is that a 5 minute game doesn't require the ego investment that a tournament game demands. Who cares if you lose when you can just turn around and play again to help forget about the loss?
In other sports and other games, you can make a lot of mistakes and blame a lot of other people for things that go wrong. But there is nobody to point fingers at in boxing and chess and mistakes are often unrecoverable.
One of the things about chess is that to play it assuming that your opponent knows what you are doing. This means you have to make your pieces work together and that an attack will eventually from that. You can't merely attack in chess.
I'd imagine that playing 6 hours a day, assuming that your opponent knows everything you are doing would help to develop the paranoid parts of the brain.
In my personal experience, its more like boxing. In both chess and boxing, you have no place to hide and nobody to blame, except yourself. All moves by your opponent are done in plain view and its only your training and preparation that will see you through.
The two are obviously different in that one is 90% physcial, and the other is 100% mental, but the investment of the ego in both are quite similar.
Both chess and boxing are about setting up the opponent and taking them down. Chess in particular is quite cruel to the loser because there is no room for making excuses.
The comparison to Rubik's cube is a bit wrong since Rubik's has been solved. Chess has some definite patterns that are instantly recognizable, but it also deals in vague terms with space, time, lines that really can't be quantified but can be estimated.
But you're right, chess is not like war, except to those people reading about it in the papers every day...thing moves from place to place, destroys other thing...etc.
Clinton was in office when this happened and Les Aspen was Secretary of Defense. I believe it was Aspen that took the fall for the politicians overruling the general about the use of armor in this particular incident.
The politicians didn't want armor in there because they didn't want it looking like a war. This ultimately cost the lives of several Americans. The general should have fought harder for his men and the politicians should have listened to the general.
That, or I'd like to hear the politicians come out and say, "we considered 19 American deaths acceptable if we can avoid the stigma of being a bully." Like that will happen.
[no match]
hmm...It can't be a real language.
Yes and no.
From what I can tell digital cable works a bit like jpeg compared to a bitmap. It seems to spend the majority of its data on the really active portions within a screen (a personse face for example) and less bandwidth goes toward the more plain areas. The net effect I've noticed is that detailed things tend to be a bit sharper, but that uncomplicated things tend to be pixelated (with huge pixels). Large patches of red or shadowy scenes with black tend to be the times when it is most inferior to analog. Detailed vibrant scenes seem to be better than analog.
It doesn't appear to use a fixed bandwidth in updating the picture, it just appears to use as much as is necessary to get by.
These are just my guesses from my observations while watching it redraw the screens slowly when cable is acting up.
One last thing to note is the hockey test:
The puck is much more visible with digital cable than analog.
That said, my regular tvs seem to be more limited by cable than by their ability to display a picture.
I think this is perhaps what the RIAA is fighting most of all. It is very important that you not be able to purchase your music accurately or else they will lose potential sales of most of their library.
I think what they fear the most is that people won't buy an album for one song any longer. I know I used to buy albums because I liked one song I heard on the radio and thought that band would be good if it sounded anything like that. I was definitely wrong.
There are definitely albums worth buying, but I'll no longer spend $18 on one song.
Every company that signed exclusive distribution contracts with microsoft should be fined $1.1 billion.
Anyone that wants to continue using a MS product must pay again the amount they spent to get that product in the first place. This will be their penalty for contributing to the extension of a monopoly.
I think this would be the best solution. I know Linux could pick up the slack for the more tech savvy but I doubt Apple could meet production for the screaming hordes running their way.
But you were correct in saying its not a difficult problem and that puts you way ahead of half the posts in this (or any) topic.
I was thinking something along the lines of $1 billion worth of software delivered to all the people who have ever purchased anything from MS. But, instead of retail pricing to measure that $1 billion, we would only count the marginal cost of the software (consumers do have to pay for shipping). So, I figure they could put all their MS products on a couple DVD's and distribute them to the first 500 million people that pay for the shipping.
If gravity were to propogate at merely the speed of light the force exerted on the earth by the sun would no longer be perpendicular to path of earth around the sun. This would result in the earth spiraling outward away from the sun.
Think about it. An object moving in a circle at a constant rate requires a force to be constantly acting on it perpendicular to the path its is currently traveling, not perendicular to the path it was traveling 8 minutes ago.
Better than everyone linking to them would be for everyone to write to their lawyers requesting to link to them.
How did they find this guy's site? Did they follow an authorized link to get there? I doubt it.
From http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.h tml
"These causality problems would be solved without any change to the mathematical formalism of GR, but only to its interpretation, if gravity is once again taken to be a propagating force of nature in flat spacetime with the propagation speed indicated by observational evidence and experiments: not less than 2 x 10^10c"
That's a damn site faster than c. To me, when talking in the context of the earth, this is effectively instant.
Its only nonsensical crap if you think I'm proposing we build matter constructors/destructors with every router. However in the context of this thread, as long as we are going to be as impractical as drilling through the earth, we might as well go all the way. Some might regard this as funny. I would think that if this is nonsensical crap, drilling through the earth might have been as well. Of course you drilled further down into this thread which might make you a nonsensical reader, then commented on it...
Of course others may regard the idea that gravity propogates faster than light as "interesting".
I think this would only be from the perspective of the tachyons...that is, they would arrive younger than when you sent them, but not before.
Now, if you held the tachyons in place and accelerated the earth to faster than lightspeed and returned to the tachyons, then you might be there before you left.
In fact, if we get back early enough I'm gonna save that cat from the box.
The force of gravity effectively propogates instantly, thereby reducing ping times to the speed at which you can create and destroy matter.
If these companies paid taxes on that money that they donated then perhaps they might be able to expect something in return.
However, if these are truly donations, you are not allowed to expect any financial considerations for donations that are written off.
This is simply a matter of whether the school wants to make cash from research. Frankly I'm not impressed by 5% of their budget coming from research. I'll bet that it eats up a great deal of professors time. This is time that could be spent with actual students who apparently are subsidizing this along with the state taxpayers.