That's not what selling below cost is. It would be like this:
I have this widget, which cost me $2 to make. I sell it for $1.
The goal is to move on to this:
Though I take a loss on every sale, the competition is a smaller business and cannot take the loss for as long as I can. Once they arebankrupt from either no one buying their products because mine are cheaper or also selling at below cost with their coffers running out sooner, I can then sell my widgets, that were previously $1 and cost me $2 to make, for $50.
[quote]Does that sound Muslim to you?[/quote]Doesn't sound like ANYTHING - it merely says "Creator," not Christian god. But if you want to get technical, Muslims and Christians worship the same God, so even if you interpret it your way it's still Muslim...
Even in the subset of things in this world called 'religion', these two are pretty fucking similar.
Don't go pretending Christianity is in any way better than Islam. They're as bad as each other. Yeah, America and Iran have such similar societies. What great freedom of speech, equality and tolerance everyone gets! Yeah, all the differences between America and Iran are caused because of the differences between Christianity and Islam!
/sarcasm
Oh, your signature promotes Ron Paul. What a coincidence.
[quote][quote]Even in the subset of things in this world called 'religion', these two are pretty fucking similar.
Don't go pretending Christianity is in any way better than Islam. They're as bad as each other.[/quote]
Yeah, America and Iran have such similar societies. What great freedom of speech, equality and tolerance everyone gets!
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Yeah, all the differences between America and Iran are caused because of the differences between Christianity and Islam!
It reminds me of the wars that were (are?) going on with the various flavors of NetNanny software, where, IIRC, some gay/lesbian groups were pressuring the manufacturers to place the websites of various right-wing religious groups on the blacklists, and vice-versa. I get what you're saying, but I don't think that's a good analogy. NetNanny has a category for hate speech and, IIRC, the websites that they wanted put on the blacklist for hate speech were saying things like "GaYs ArE tEh DeViL!!111 kill 1 and ur doin da world a service!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It actually was a valid claim, such as if Republicans registered "dempcrats.org" or Democrats registered a "gip.com"
Why is this marked Funny? This guy is serious. He says that he is the one who pulled the strings to get these questions here (http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=442666&cid=22309678).
"Iraq Wars," equal to whatever the cost of the Iraq War is at an arbitrarily picked point in time (for now probably the current rate, when [if?] it ends we can set it equal to that).
To rephrase the article, "Fixing US Broadband Would Cost.2 Iraq Wars"
No way would I touch that torrent.. all it takes is one underage myspace kid to have posted one nipple.. cue child pornography charges/public outcry/p2p filtering mandated/end game. It's the wet-dream of the **AA crowd. The article says that "the script cycled through MySpace users sequentially by MySpace Friend ID number, and did not target users of a particular age group."
If I had to guess, I'd guess that it didn't target underage people - probably for the exact reason that you mentioned.
Don't like the way the country is being run? Then you should run for president.... I've never been in a union, but your 'solution' sounds like nothing of the sort. It's actually a lot easier to get involved in a union than it is a presidential election. Not only are unions smaller, but almost every person in charge in a union will have been elected from your peers - and your ACTUAL peers, not someone who is a peer only in the sense that they were born in the same four million square miles as you.
1) What kinds of towns are the jobs in now? Would I like the kinds of houses / dating / lifestyle available in these kinds of towns?
2) If I am hired someday and laid off later, would I need to move to a new town to find an equivalent job?
3) What kinds of companies hire for this discipline? Is it just a handful of multinational corporations, or is it a lot of companies of varying sizes? Where would I find out about this sort of thing in the future? Is there one specific website that has a lot of info about this, or is it just accumulating whatever can be found from random Google searches? Though, from what you said, it sounds like two of the three that I was considering (Mechanical and Electrical) would be good choices and the third wouldn't be terrible.:)
Do you know who was the first President to allow Federal funds to go to stem cell research? George W. Bush
President who doubled NIH funding in the last five years? George W. Bush Completely irrelevant and an obvious attempt to steer the conversation in a different way.
What liberals want is more "education," but they don't give a crap about science at large. They demand specific results (usually related to their socialist agendas: heart desease and cancer treatment, high fructose corn syrup, ethanol, etc.), but don't want to fund research to actually get even these few out. Yeah, a person named "megaditto" (an obvious reference to Rush Limbaugh) is really fit to speak about what liberals want, rather than actual liberals. Further, "liberals" have no set "agenda" - to think that is ridiculous.
liberals I know oppose scientific exchanges and object to training foreign grad students and postdocs, or offering research positions to foreigners Then they're not liberal in that respect. Or you classify them as liberals because they're left of you. Remember: just because someone is a liberal in one respect does not make them liberals on all issues.
I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that you didn't realize the OP was joking or that you only corrected him for entrepeneur and ignored the fact that laissez-faire is French, too.:P
Is the market good for all types of Engineering? I'm currently a senior in high school planning on going into Engineering but I'm not sure what discipline to choose... I think Aerospace, Mechanical and Electrical would all be fun and interesting but if one gives me a better chance of getting a job on graduation and a higher salary, well... when the primary variable is equal, the secondary variable is what determines my decision.;)
Also, how much does a dual-major matter in Engineering? I know I want to do so, but there's lots of fields that I am interested in and not sure which would be the best for Engineering (I'm considering Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or PolySci [probably depends on the school that I end up going to, as some schools are more friendly to widely-varied dual majors than others]).
If anyone else involved in the field has some advice, I would really appreciate it. It's crucial to my future!:)
I realize this is a little OT (please don't mod me down, guys, this is important to my future!:P) but do you know anything about the job market for Electrical Engineering? I know I want to go into Engineering when I enter college (next year, senior in high school right now) but I'm not sure what discipline. The three I've been considering are, coincidentally, electrical, mechanical, and aerospace - they all sound like a lot of fun. Then there's a decision of what to dual-major in (as I'm pretty sure I want to)... Mathematics, Statistics, Political Science, Computer Science? Woe is me! I think they would all be INCREDIBLY fun and would go well with Engineering... except maybe PolySci wouldn't synergize very well...
If anyone in the field/knowledgeable about the field has any advice, it would be very appreciated.
our relative position has declined due to...liberals Yeah, curse those liberals for wanting to fund science! We would have MORE science if we just let the free market, that friend of all progress, handle it!
I'm also an actual high school student (senior in high school, currently) and I say that you're full of shit. I won't say that ID is the only reason, but it is certainly one. Heck, in my Biology class (two years ago) we didn't even talk about evolution for fear of "offending" someone (and we're not even in the more religious states!). We concentrated solely on the actuality of life (anatomy of animals and plants, etc.) with no focus on the how things ended up the way they did.
(1) is plain wrong. Kids care as much or as little as they have in the past. If you don't believe me, ask your parents. As in the past, some kids care and some do not. The percentages of each have varied little.
I have never seen any affect on my fellow students based on (2). In fact, there is a higher percentage of students living in divorced households in the AP classes that I am in than in the student body as a whole (55-70% of the students in my AP classes come from single-parent households, which is significantly higher than the national divorce rate).
I'm going to assume in (3) that you are talking about the teachers - that's what it sounds like. That is going to vary so much from district to district, state to state, and region to region that it would be pretty difficult to make any generalization based on it. However, with the current rate that teachers are paid at, it would be hard to see someone doing it without being enthusiastic. Anecdotally, all the teachers at my school do it not for the money (obviously), but because it's important. One time my English teacher showed us a letter from a college friend of his that related back to something we were doing it in class. His friend had signed it "Keep fighting the good fight," and, when I asked my teacher what that was about, I was informed that he had wanted to do something to make a difference in the world - the reason that he got into teaching. If you're talking about support and enthusiasm among the general populace, then I agree - and declare you awful hypocritical.
The main failure mentioned in (4) is due to a lack of funds - see below.
(5) is completely and utterly ridiculous. Cheating is no more prevalent now than it was 50 years ago. Again, ask your parents before you open your mouth.
(Note that I am not an atheist) To say that atheists have a "lack of hope" is utterly ridiculous. Simply because they do not believe in the afterlife does not mean that there is no hope. There is hope in improving the human condition - for themselves and others -, in improving their time on the Earth, and the length of it.
Religion is a NON-ISSUE in the degrading scientific education system in America
Ironic considering you tied the degradation of scientific education to the degradation of morals and then tied morals to religion. You, too, are claiming that religion is a part of the degradation of the education system. You are just arguing the opposite point - that it is the degradation of religion causing problems, rather than religion itself.
The main problem contributing to the degradation of our education system is the lack of funds. The government (federal and state) is becoming increasingly unwilling to appropriate funds for education. It is reflecting itself in low pay for the teachers, bad facilities in the schools, increased class sizes, and fewer classes overall.
To use anecdotal evidence again, in my chemistry class the school would not give us money to do labs so the teacher would spend her own money on chemicals, beakers, and other supplies. To support this, after a 9-hour day at school (7:00-3:00) and additional hours grading assignments, she worked part-time at a local store.
The various classes get new textbooks once every five years or so, which is decent, though they are quite worn from having gone through at a minimum 10 pairs of hands (2 semesters * 5 years). What really suffers is the English department, though. They get new books once in a blue moon
Plus you don't have to wipe because after 3 hours (minimum) it's dried to your bottom and doesn't stink anymore. You sound waaay too well-acquainted with that fact.
No matter what you do with human cloning, so long as the DNA is decidedly human, a human is killed when "embryos would then be destroyed. [FTA]" That is your opinion. You can choose to have that opinion. I, personally, disagree entirely.
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That's not what selling below cost is. It would be like this:
I have this widget, which cost me $2 to make. I sell it for $1.
The goal is to move on to this:
Though I take a loss on every sale, the competition is a smaller business and cannot take the loss for as long as I can. Once they arebankrupt from either no one buying their products because mine are cheaper or also selling at below cost with their coffers running out sooner, I can then sell my widgets, that were previously $1 and cost me $2 to make, for $50.
I had trouble reading it because I'm going through a Tequila Sunrise.
[quote]Does that sound Muslim to you?[/quote]Doesn't sound like ANYTHING - it merely says "Creator," not Christian god. But if you want to get technical, Muslims and Christians worship the same God, so even if you interpret it your way it's still Muslim...
Oh, your signature promotes Ron Paul. What a coincidence.
[quote][quote]Even in the subset of things in this world called 'religion', these two are pretty fucking similar.
Don't go pretending Christianity is in any way better than Islam. They're as bad as each other.[/quote] Yeah, America and Iran have such similar societies. What great freedom of speech, equality and tolerance everyone gets! [/quote] Yeah, all the differences between America and Iran are caused because of the differences between Christianity and Islam!
/sarcasm
Why is this marked Funny? This guy is serious. He says that he is the one who pulled the strings to get these questions here (http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=442666&cid=22309678).
"Iraq Wars," equal to whatever the cost of the Iraq War is at an arbitrarily picked point in time (for now probably the current rate, when [if?] it ends we can set it equal to that).
.2 Iraq Wars"
To rephrase the article, "Fixing US Broadband Would Cost
/joke
That sounds like sarcasm. How is it easier to add in a check for age and then change the result than to not do anything?
If I had to guess, I'd guess that it didn't target underage people - probably for the exact reason that you mentioned.
[quote]A tit shaped force feedback controller[/quote] Don't waste it on the kids - give one to me!
1) What kinds of towns are the jobs in now? Would I like the kinds of houses / dating / lifestyle available in these kinds of towns?
2) If I am hired someday and laid off later, would I need to move to a new town to find an equivalent job?
3) What kinds of companies hire for this discipline? Is it just a handful of multinational corporations, or is it a lot of companies of varying sizes? Where would I find out about this sort of thing in the future? Is there one specific website that has a lot of info about this, or is it just accumulating whatever can be found from random Google searches? Though, from what you said, it sounds like two of the three that I was considering (Mechanical and Electrical) would be good choices and the third wouldn't be terrible.
And thank you VERY much!
President who doubled NIH funding in the last five years? George W. Bush Completely irrelevant and an obvious attempt to steer the conversation in a different way. What liberals want is more "education," but they don't give a crap about science at large. They demand specific results (usually related to their socialist agendas: heart desease and cancer treatment, high fructose corn syrup, ethanol, etc.), but don't want to fund research to actually get even these few out. Yeah, a person named "megaditto" (an obvious reference to Rush Limbaugh) is really fit to speak about what liberals want, rather than actual liberals. Further, "liberals" have no set "agenda" - to think that is ridiculous. liberals I know oppose scientific exchanges and object to training foreign grad students and postdocs, or offering research positions to foreigners Then they're not liberal in that respect. Or you classify them as liberals because they're left of you. Remember: just because someone is a liberal in one respect does not make them liberals on all issues.
I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that you didn't realize the OP was joking or that you only corrected him for entrepeneur and ignored the fact that laissez-faire is French, too. :P
Is the market good for all types of Engineering? I'm currently a senior in high school planning on going into Engineering but I'm not sure what discipline to choose... I think Aerospace, Mechanical and Electrical would all be fun and interesting but if one gives me a better chance of getting a job on graduation and a higher salary, well... when the primary variable is equal, the secondary variable is what determines my decision. ;)
:)
Also, how much does a dual-major matter in Engineering? I know I want to do so, but there's lots of fields that I am interested in and not sure which would be the best for Engineering (I'm considering Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or PolySci [probably depends on the school that I end up going to, as some schools are more friendly to widely-varied dual majors than others]).
If anyone else involved in the field has some advice, I would really appreciate it. It's crucial to my future!
I realize this is a little OT (please don't mod me down, guys, this is important to my future! :P) but do you know anything about the job market for Electrical Engineering? I know I want to go into Engineering when I enter college (next year, senior in high school right now) but I'm not sure what discipline. The three I've been considering are, coincidentally, electrical, mechanical, and aerospace - they all sound like a lot of fun. Then there's a decision of what to dual-major in (as I'm pretty sure I want to)... Mathematics, Statistics, Political Science, Computer Science? Woe is me! I think they would all be INCREDIBLY fun and would go well with Engineering... except maybe PolySci wouldn't synergize very well...
If anyone in the field/knowledgeable about the field has any advice, it would be very appreciated.
(1) is plain wrong. Kids care as much or as little as they have in the past. If you don't believe me, ask your parents. As in the past, some kids care and some do not. The percentages of each have varied little.
I have never seen any affect on my fellow students based on (2). In fact, there is a higher percentage of students living in divorced households in the AP classes that I am in than in the student body as a whole (55-70% of the students in my AP classes come from single-parent households, which is significantly higher than the national divorce rate).
I'm going to assume in (3) that you are talking about the teachers - that's what it sounds like. That is going to vary so much from district to district, state to state, and region to region that it would be pretty difficult to make any generalization based on it. However, with the current rate that teachers are paid at, it would be hard to see someone doing it without being enthusiastic. Anecdotally, all the teachers at my school do it not for the money (obviously), but because it's important. One time my English teacher showed us a letter from a college friend of his that related back to something we were doing it in class. His friend had signed it "Keep fighting the good fight," and, when I asked my teacher what that was about, I was informed that he had wanted to do something to make a difference in the world - the reason that he got into teaching. If you're talking about support and enthusiasm among the general populace, then I agree - and declare you awful hypocritical.
The main failure mentioned in (4) is due to a lack of funds - see below.
(5) is completely and utterly ridiculous. Cheating is no more prevalent now than it was 50 years ago. Again, ask your parents before you open your mouth.
(Note that I am not an atheist) To say that atheists have a "lack of hope" is utterly ridiculous. Simply because they do not believe in the afterlife does not mean that there is no hope. There is hope in improving the human condition - for themselves and others -, in improving their time on the Earth, and the length of it.
Religion is a NON-ISSUE in the degrading scientific education system in America
Ironic considering you tied the degradation of scientific education to the degradation of morals and then tied morals to religion. You, too, are claiming that religion is a part of the degradation of the education system. You are just arguing the opposite point - that it is the degradation of religion causing problems, rather than religion itself.
The main problem contributing to the degradation of our education system is the lack of funds. The government (federal and state) is becoming increasingly unwilling to appropriate funds for education. It is reflecting itself in low pay for the teachers, bad facilities in the schools, increased class sizes, and fewer classes overall.
To use anecdotal evidence again, in my chemistry class the school would not give us money to do labs so the teacher would spend her own money on chemicals, beakers, and other supplies. To support this, after a 9-hour day at school (7:00-3:00) and additional hours grading assignments, she worked part-time at a local store.
The various classes get new textbooks once every five years or so, which is decent, though they are quite worn from having gone through at a minimum 10 pairs of hands (2 semesters * 5 years). What really suffers is the English department, though. They get new books once in a blue moon
The only FACT is that embryos are destroyed.