And if we could airdrop full libraries with automated librarians who could teach the children how to read and write, in a language they have never seen or heard, into remote villages in all seven continents, that would be relevant.
Hate to break it to you, but when your nominal income is down 10% or more, your real income is even less, and your expenses have gone up, you have to evaluate your cost centers AND your profit centers, to see where you can cut.
They're a microphone, a speaker, a circuit board, a battery, and a case. Sometimes a radio. Add in a computer program (99 cents at the App Store) and your price is maybe $30. You could replace your $30 Hearing Helper twice a year for sixteen years for a thousand dollars. Or get the Hearing Helper Deluxe for $60 for once a year.
I hear they're coming out with the iListen for $240 that will last for four years, too! It comes in colors!!!11!
As soon as the market becomes aware of his product, some nice people from the government will contact him and let him know that he is selling an UNAPPROVED Medical Device (TM) and if he doesn't stop immediately that they guys with the badges and guns will come over to his house and MAKE him stop.
One of our biggest problems is that the government has so many rules and regulations to enforce, that they have to pick and choose and delegate. The number of laws has risen, the number of inspectors has fallen, and the SEC is watching porn instead of addressing HFT.
Take your field of expertise. Think about what the government does with it, how poorly they understand it, how worthless, counterproductive, and contradictory they are, and how badly the agents address it. Now extrapolate that to every aspect of and every level of our regulatory culture.
We are paying for the healthcare of the entire world. You think that companies would go through 100 trials each of 100 drugs to find one that works, if the one drug's profits didn't pay for the ten thousand trials?
And 50 years ago, she would have simply had it set and like your Grandpa would've handed down an inheritance to you.
Your Mom just spent your inheritance on her wrist. I'm trying not to make a moral judgement here. We, as a society, have decided that there is no amount too high to spend on our bodies, even if we have to lay the debt at the feet of our children's children's children.
My neighbor sells me all my radishes. His secret? He moved the headphone jack to the BOTTOM!
You have to differentiate on something other than price if you want to charge a premium. Gucci differentiates by cachet. Your radishes just don't have it.
Indeed. All the people who are hating on the free market forget that people have the choice to buy a New iPad 2 for $600 or a COBY Kyros Internet Tablet MID7012 4 GB off amazon for $66.
In fact, if you really just need a small microphone with a small speaker that plugs into your ear, you can just get a Listen Up! sound amplifier that looks like a bluetooth headset for less than $30.
If the only place you went to shop for a tablet was to talk to the manager of Best Buy, he would sell you an iPad. If the only place you go to shop for a hearing aid is the doctor's office, you'll get a Phonak Ultra or a Unitron.
Especially if "someone else" is picking up a large part of the tab.
Remember the Christian Whackjobs who blew themselves to bits in the middle of a marketplace? What about the widespread rioting when the state helped finance a picture of their God in a jar of urine? How about when the mormons beheaded their prisoner on film and published it? Or when the judge allowed a man to violate the law by citing the Talmud?
Of course you don't. Just like you don't remember the soldier who shouted "Praise be to Jesus" as he gunned down a roomful of soldiers on an army base.
Air, like hydrogen and lead-acid batteries, is a storage medium, not a power source.
What they should do is get it just powerful enough to absorb the extra weight and inefficiency of the emissions control systems and crash-proofing needed to get the OK to sell in the USA.
Sell it with manual everything, and offer lots of optional upgrades. I would pay for ABS and an auxiliary jack. My buddy would pay for built-in touchscreen infotainment systems, and a sunroof option.
One of the main sources of fuel taxes for interstate highways is diesel fuel for big trucks transporting goods. So if you buy stuff that was transported via truck, then the cost of the fuel taxes has been passed on to you via higher prices on your goods. So bicyclists pay for interstates, too!
1. You're conflating marginal cost with average cost. The cost of producing a known chemical does not include researching what the chemical does, what dosage is needed, building a factory, staffing human resources, having human resources staff the rest of the factory, maintaining the machines, etc etc.
2. Sure, they don't want those things, but how much do they not want them?
A strike isn't going to have any effect on the students, or the teachING.
What the union CAN do without approval is expend large sums of money and lawyers to keep poor or awful teachers employed, and stop new teachers from coming in.
My high school had a teacher who they offered 80% of his pay to retire, just to get rid of him. He would not take it. Chemistry classes at that school were a joke for years.
I simply see food production shifting north, one or two sections of land per decade. I mean really. A guy whose land was better fit for grazing realizes that he can probably make more money planting some orchards or other cold-tolerant crops. A guy whose farmland was productive a decade ago switches to a warmer weather crop, or from farming to grazing, or from oranges to apples.
It's not like everyone is just going to lay down and die on October 11th, 2045*.
How much does a volume of water expand given a rise of temperature of 1-2 degrees Celsius? Assuming that all the water in the ocean was warmed by 2 degrees, how much bigger would the volume be?
The law says employment is "at will." The rest of the laws lay out the hundreds and hundreds of ways that it is not. In order to avoid lawsuits, you have to have *documentation* that Suzy is spending 45 minutes per day in the can. So you set up this ridiculous system to track restroom time, and Suzy, being Suzy, keeps it up, and you fire her.
Clearly not American:) As an employee, I used to work a six hour shift, where I was allowed two, 10-minute breaks. I had one boss who would allow me to take them together in the middle of my shift, allowing me to take my bike home, fix and eat a sandwich for dinner, use the restroom, and return. Weather permitting of course. Then we were informed that doing my shift had to be shortened to 5.5 hours, because working 6.01 hours was illegal, and that I could only have one 10-minute break in the middle of my shift. So I had to make lunch and dinner in the morning, and take all of it with me to class, so I would have it for work.
Later as management, I got two, 10-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch, on a nine-hour shift. Sometimes, you just have to take a crap on company time!
The economic boom of the 1950's coincided with the our largest economic rivals having the ever-loving crap blown out of them. See, there was this thing called World War II, and everything modern that was east of Maine or west of San Francisco was reduced to Swiss cheese.
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"I have decided to step down from my position so that I can spend more time with my mistress. "
Who the hell cites an affair for resigning?
And if we could airdrop full libraries with automated librarians who could teach the children how to read and write, in a language they have never seen or heard, into remote villages in all seven continents, that would be relevant.
Hate to break it to you, but when your nominal income is down 10% or more, your real income is even less, and your expenses have gone up, you have to evaluate your cost centers AND your profit centers, to see where you can cut.
Thanks for that. Tell us more about how you refuse raises and interest income because it's the Right Thing To Do(TM).
Now consider an iPhone app that uses the camera, gyroscope, and accelerometer, and the flash, to build a 3d scan of your ear.
Then consider a 3D printer that makes a custom case for each user based on the above scan, into which the standard hearing aid parts fit into.
Then consider another app that administers a comprehensive hearing test, and dumps the resulting hearing profile into the hearing aid.
Then let people know that their hearing aid will last them an entire year!!
You're back to $400.
They're a microphone, a speaker, a circuit board, a battery, and a case. Sometimes a radio. Add in a computer program (99 cents at the App Store) and your price is maybe $30. You could replace your $30 Hearing Helper twice a year for sixteen years for a thousand dollars. Or get the Hearing Helper Deluxe for $60 for once a year.
I hear they're coming out with the iListen for $240 that will last for four years, too! It comes in colors!!!11!
As soon as the market becomes aware of his product, some nice people from the government will contact him and let him know that he is selling an UNAPPROVED Medical Device (TM) and if he doesn't stop immediately that they guys with the badges and guns will come over to his house and MAKE him stop.
Truth!
One of our biggest problems is that the government has so many rules and regulations to enforce, that they have to pick and choose and delegate. The number of laws has risen, the number of inspectors has fallen, and the SEC is watching porn instead of addressing HFT.
Take your field of expertise. Think about what the government does with it, how poorly they understand it, how worthless, counterproductive, and contradictory they are, and how badly the agents address it. Now extrapolate that to every aspect of and every level of our regulatory culture.
We are paying for the healthcare of the entire world. You think that companies would go through 100 trials each of 100 drugs to find one that works, if the one drug's profits didn't pay for the ten thousand trials?
And 50 years ago, she would have simply had it set and like your Grandpa would've handed down an inheritance to you.
Your Mom just spent your inheritance on her wrist. I'm trying not to make a moral judgement here. We, as a society, have decided that there is no amount too high to spend on our bodies, even if we have to lay the debt at the feet of our children's children's children.
My neighbor sells me all my radishes. His secret? He moved the headphone jack to the BOTTOM!
You have to differentiate on something other than price if you want to charge a premium. Gucci differentiates by cachet. Your radishes just don't have it.
Indeed. All the people who are hating on the free market forget that people have the choice to buy a New iPad 2 for $600 or a COBY Kyros Internet Tablet MID7012 4 GB off amazon for $66.
In fact, if you really just need a small microphone with a small speaker that plugs into your ear, you can just get a Listen Up! sound amplifier that looks like a bluetooth headset for less than $30.
If the only place you went to shop for a tablet was to talk to the manager of Best Buy, he would sell you an iPad.
If the only place you go to shop for a hearing aid is the doctor's office, you'll get a Phonak Ultra or a Unitron.
Especially if "someone else" is picking up a large part of the tab.
This. Whenever I want to buy something, I just tell myself "no."
When I get tired of telling myself "no" after a few months, then I say "yes." I usually end up with nothing but extra money and less clutter.
Remember the Christian Whackjobs who blew themselves to bits in the middle of a marketplace? What about the widespread rioting when the state helped finance a picture of their God in a jar of urine? How about when the mormons beheaded their prisoner on film and published it? Or when the judge allowed a man to violate the law by citing the Talmud?
Of course you don't. Just like you don't remember the soldier who shouted "Praise be to Jesus" as he gunned down a roomful of soldiers on an army base.
Air, like hydrogen and lead-acid batteries, is a storage medium, not a power source.
What they should do is get it just powerful enough to absorb the extra weight and inefficiency of the emissions control systems and crash-proofing needed to get the OK to sell in the USA.
Sell it with manual everything, and offer lots of optional upgrades. I would pay for ABS and an auxiliary jack. My buddy would pay for built-in touchscreen infotainment systems, and a sunroof option.
Lots of money to be made.
One of the main sources of fuel taxes for interstate highways is diesel fuel for big trucks transporting goods. So if you buy stuff that was transported via truck, then the cost of the fuel taxes has been passed on to you via higher prices on your goods. So bicyclists pay for interstates, too!
1. You're conflating marginal cost with average cost. The cost of producing a known chemical does not include researching what the chemical does, what dosage is needed, building a factory, staffing human resources, having human resources staff the rest of the factory, maintaining the machines, etc etc.
2. Sure, they don't want those things, but how much do they not want them?
A strike isn't going to have any effect on the students, or the teachING.
What the union CAN do without approval is expend large sums of money and lawyers to keep poor or awful teachers employed, and stop new teachers from coming in.
My high school had a teacher who they offered 80% of his pay to retire, just to get rid of him. He would not take it. Chemistry classes at that school were a joke for years.
At larger state schools, many teachers write their own books, update them every two years, and mandate their use in their class.
I simply see food production shifting north, one or two sections of land per decade. I mean really. A guy whose land was better fit for grazing realizes that he can probably make more money planting some orchards or other cold-tolerant crops. A guy whose farmland was productive a decade ago switches to a warmer weather crop, or from farming to grazing, or from oranges to apples.
It's not like everyone is just going to lay down and die on October 11th, 2045*.
Relax.
*date chosen at random.
How much does a volume of water expand given a rise of temperature of 1-2 degrees Celsius? Assuming that all the water in the ocean was warmed by 2 degrees, how much bigger would the volume be?
But what does it do when Arctic ice is at all-time lows and Antarctic ice is at all-time highs?
The law says employment is "at will." The rest of the laws lay out the hundreds and hundreds of ways that it is not. In order to avoid lawsuits, you have to have *documentation* that Suzy is spending 45 minutes per day in the can. So you set up this ridiculous system to track restroom time, and Suzy, being Suzy, keeps it up, and you fire her.
Then you're stuck with it.
Clearly not American :)
As an employee, I used to work a six hour shift, where I was allowed two, 10-minute breaks. I had one boss who would allow me to take them together in the middle of my shift, allowing me to take my bike home, fix and eat a sandwich for dinner, use the restroom, and return. Weather permitting of course. Then we were informed that doing my shift had to be shortened to 5.5 hours, because working 6.01 hours was illegal, and that I could only have one 10-minute break in the middle of my shift. So I had to make lunch and dinner in the morning, and take all of it with me to class, so I would have it for work.
Later as management, I got two, 10-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch, on a nine-hour shift. Sometimes, you just have to take a crap on company time!
The economic boom of the 1950's coincided with the our largest economic rivals having the ever-loving crap blown out of them. See, there was this thing called World War II, and everything modern that was east of Maine or west of San Francisco was reduced to Swiss cheese.