You gotta admit, having most of a company's reserves tied up somewhere where it can only be retrieved with a password held only in the CEO's memory is quite unusual. And unless CEO is code for sole proprietor, very irresponsible on the part of the other officers.
It actually isn't as addictive as tobacco. Cigarette smoke contains MAO inhibitors that potentiate the addictive properties of nicotine. Vape juice doesn't have those.
That's because many of those services are necessary to keep you from infringing on others. If we make it a direct fee for a service, some jackass will (for example) decline the garbage pickup service and dump it in a stinking heap downwind of his house but upwind of his neighbor's. Or he'll put it in his neighbor's trash can.
Have you ever heard of radio? Did you know wireless chargers for cellphones are a thing? Have you ever noticed that when you press the unlock button on your key fob, there's no lightning or ozone smell?
Even back in the old days of spark gap transmitters, lightning didn't actually jump to the radios in people's homes,
As opposed to the unelected billionaires impoverishing people who happen to need medications they have an exclusive on (for example).
Personally I prefer a hybrid system that includes a market economy, free enterprise, and democratic elections. But it's really amuseing how I make a neutral and factual statement about socialists and I get a group of rabid capitalists dog piling on it with a need to tell me everything wrong with socialism. None of whom seem to recognize that very similar bad things happen right here in the U.S.A.
You're confusing the political and economic systems. Beyond that, capitalism is well on it's way to becoming feudalism. And feudalism tends to have a king. That's why we have companies that are too big to fail and "afluenza".
I must say, it would be nice if people who didn't earn the money would quit taking if from the people who did and buying yachts that resemble an ocean liner, building asbestos ridden fire traps, pet food delivery dot bombs, and gold toilet seats.
All for such brilliant business leadership as destroying HP, Bell Labs, SGI, Radio Shack, Sears, etc and crashing the world economy.
The shutdown happened when the GOP controlled House, Senate, and the Oval office. It's the first single party shutdown in the history of the United States.
And when they come, somebody will have to pay for infrastructure upgrades to make it all work. If Amazon gets to keep the money they would have paid in taxes, it won't be them paying for it, now let's think a minute who might be left holding that bag...
We have seen other examples involving 3D printing. The labor cost isn't that high, even doing it like the "official" manufacturers do. The profit angle is the biggest factor. Patents are just the profit angle blessed by the USPTO.
It's pretty much the same as everything else in the medical field. Popsicle sticks are dirt cheap but as soon as you tell someone to say Ahh it's a $5 tongue depressor according to the charge master.
IIRC, Tesla intended to use the Earth itself as well as possibly the ionosphere as elements of the antenna, so the effective antenna wouldn't have been omni directional.
He was on the right track, but I don't think it would have been directional enough.
There are significant caveats to the inverse square law when the energy source isn't an omnidirectional point source (isotropic).
For example, given a parabolic antenna you have to use a virtual point source that is far behind the antenna and much stronger when you use the inverse square law. In the special case of a perfectly columnated laser (good luck!) or a perfect wave guide (also good luck!) inverse square is irrelevant (but attenuation through an imperfect vacuum still applies).
Tesla intended to use the Earth itself as a wave guide, so he wasn't just out of his mind. In fact, he did manage to transmit a significant amount of power 10 miles in Colorado.
All of that being said, I suspect that the radiative losses would still be too high and the problems with unintentional receivers would be too obnoxious (and dangerous) for it to have actually worked. in the general case.
No socialist ever said otherwise. The socialist contention is that overall we work less for the same things if we don't have rich dudes skimming off a heap of the productive effort so they can have a solid gold toilet seat and play golf all day.
The dudes with the solid gold toilet seats greatly appreciate your ignorance. At least in the abstract sense.
This is not exactly a Darwin Awards moment. They're tossing a bit of water into the air, not juggling chainsaws. Most people can manage it without getting water on themselves or others. It's also a cool demonstration.
A small number of people managed to injure themselves or others doing this. They're probably the same people who managed as children to hurt themselves with a Nerf toy. From the sound of it, only one or two of the injuries actually required care beyond home first aid. I do feel for the 3 year old who clearly wasn't old enough to watch out for himself, of course.
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Well, it is believed that the ritual of smoking is a significant contributor to the addiction.
You gotta admit, having most of a company's reserves tied up somewhere where it can only be retrieved with a password held only in the CEO's memory is quite unusual. And unless CEO is code for sole proprietor, very irresponsible on the part of the other officers.
It actually isn't as addictive as tobacco. Cigarette smoke contains MAO inhibitors that potentiate the addictive properties of nicotine. Vape juice doesn't have those.
Some vape juice doesn't even have nicotine.
Use of tobacco products among toddlers at epidemic level! (dub in slasher flick scream)...
Where sippy cups are arbitrarily defined as a tobacco product in spite of them containing no tobacco.
From your link:
Conclusions: The use of NRT is not associated with any increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death.
So no, nicotine minus the tar, particulates, and carbon monoxide is NOT associated with an increased of cardiovascular risk.
Looks like you read what you (for some reason) wanted to read rather than what was written.
That's because many of those services are necessary to keep you from infringing on others. If we make it a direct fee for a service, some jackass will (for example) decline the garbage pickup service and dump it in a stinking heap downwind of his house but upwind of his neighbor's. Or he'll put it in his neighbor's trash can.
No matter what happens, there will always be trolls on /. burning up brain cells trying to find a way to blame the victim.
Have you ever heard of radio? Did you know wireless chargers for cellphones are a thing? Have you ever noticed that when you press the unlock button on your key fob, there's no lightning or ozone smell?
Even back in the old days of spark gap transmitters, lightning didn't actually jump to the radios in people's homes,
As opposed to the unelected billionaires impoverishing people who happen to need medications they have an exclusive on (for example).
Personally I prefer a hybrid system that includes a market economy, free enterprise, and democratic elections. But it's really amuseing how I make a neutral and factual statement about socialists and I get a group of rabid capitalists dog piling on it with a need to tell me everything wrong with socialism. None of whom seem to recognize that very similar bad things happen right here in the U.S.A.
You're confusing the political and economic systems. Beyond that, capitalism is well on it's way to becoming feudalism. And feudalism tends to have a king. That's why we have companies that are too big to fail and "afluenza".
I must say, it would be nice if people who didn't earn the money would quit taking if from the people who did and buying yachts that resemble an ocean liner, building asbestos ridden fire traps, pet food delivery dot bombs, and gold toilet seats.
All for such brilliant business leadership as destroying HP, Bell Labs, SGI, Radio Shack, Sears, etc and crashing the world economy.
The shutdown happened when the GOP controlled House, Senate, and the Oval office. It's the first single party shutdown in the history of the United States.
I can't imagine Trump finds that much of an obstacle. We've already illegally fired less lethal rounds into a crowd in Mexico.
A bank of lights. These or similar. The picture is from a test at 100 feet. The longer distance is reported but not photographed.
You mean other than a paycheck, right?
Those seem to be good enough for the rank and file here in the U.S.A.
Those are the Communists. To be fair, they didn't claim there was a free lunch either, but they obviously have other issues.
And when they come, somebody will have to pay for infrastructure upgrades to make it all work. If Amazon gets to keep the money they would have paid in taxes, it won't be them paying for it, now let's think a minute who might be left holding that bag...
OTOH, if those incentives are instead invested directly into the community, who needs the strings?
We have seen other examples involving 3D printing. The labor cost isn't that high, even doing it like the "official" manufacturers do. The profit angle is the biggest factor. Patents are just the profit angle blessed by the USPTO.
It's pretty much the same as everything else in the medical field. Popsicle sticks are dirt cheap but as soon as you tell someone to say Ahh it's a $5 tongue depressor according to the charge master.
IIRC, Tesla intended to use the Earth itself as well as possibly the ionosphere as elements of the antenna, so the effective antenna wouldn't have been omni directional.
He was on the right track, but I don't think it would have been directional enough.
There are significant caveats to the inverse square law when the energy source isn't an omnidirectional point source (isotropic).
For example, given a parabolic antenna you have to use a virtual point source that is far behind the antenna and much stronger when you use the inverse square law. In the special case of a perfectly columnated laser (good luck!) or a perfect wave guide (also good luck!) inverse square is irrelevant (but attenuation through an imperfect vacuum still applies).
Tesla intended to use the Earth itself as a wave guide, so he wasn't just out of his mind. In fact, he did manage to transmit a significant amount of power 10 miles in Colorado.
All of that being said, I suspect that the radiative losses would still be too high and the problems with unintentional receivers would be too obnoxious (and dangerous) for it to have actually worked. in the general case.
No socialist ever said otherwise. The socialist contention is that overall we work less for the same things if we don't have rich dudes skimming off a heap of the productive effort so they can have a solid gold toilet seat and play golf all day.
The dudes with the solid gold toilet seats greatly appreciate your ignorance. At least in the abstract sense.
It actually does work, and it doesn't even need to be that cold. The key is that the water needs to thoroughly atomize.
And a candle isn't likely to heat the whole house, but it might manage to make the bathroom a bit more comfortable.
The whole premise is that hot water freezes faster than cold water. It's anti-intuitive, but there seems to be some real question there.
This is not exactly a Darwin Awards moment. They're tossing a bit of water into the air, not juggling chainsaws. Most people can manage it without getting water on themselves or others. It's also a cool demonstration.
A small number of people managed to injure themselves or others doing this. They're probably the same people who managed as children to hurt themselves with a Nerf toy. From the sound of it, only one or two of the injuries actually required care beyond home first aid. I do feel for the 3 year old who clearly wasn't old enough to watch out for himself, of course.