Certainly the power of the invisible hand of the free market will ensure that CEOs are paid correctly. Since every employee of a major corporation is bombarded every couple of years by HR studies financed by management proving that the salaries in the organization are perfectly aligned with productivity and the employment market, it goes without saying that of course the corporate boards are commissioning extensive studies rating the effectiveness of each CEO candidate and detailing the difference in income the company would experience if it picked one or another, and thus calculating the scientifically most accurate salary for them. I mean, given our unshakable faith that the free market provides optimal results and that here in the US, which is beyond any doubt the finest country in the world in terms of all parameters, the free market functions perfectly unless the government gets involved; well then anything other than that kind of perfect alignment of salary with results would be unthinkable.
Hydrogen is still a pain in the ass to deal with; it attacks metals, it doesn't behave nicely when compressed (although that's typically solved by absorbing it on some solvent-soaked cardboard in the tank or some such, as with acetylene), it's leaky since it's such a small molecule, and it's hard to see the flames when it burns.
Consider; if the Nazis hadn't gotten rid of their Jewish physicists by various means, and abandoned their "Jewish physics" with all the fuzziness and lack of nice Prussian precision which Newtonian physics provided, they would have had The Bomb first.
I've come to hypothesize that it's symptomatic; any society which has a defined goal of eradicating some segment of itself on the grounds of ethnicity or religion or gender or some other meaningless property, not only loses the contributions of those members, but also must devote some of the remaining time and effort to that destructive infighting, and thus in the end must be handicapped in competition with a generally equal society which is not crippling itself in that manner.
Oh no, Ms. Mayer is exactly right. Although her company is ready to risk millions of dollars on the work of various employees, it has to be remembered that those employees are either too dumb to figure out where/how they can work most effectively, or too infantile to care.
"Over the years, I have seen hundreds of examples of money machine people being severely done in by the patent system. Even murdered by it in several heart-attack-during-litigation cases. And not once did I see anyone approaching the patent system on a small scale basis and profiting from it. Ever. Once again: Unless you are well within a Fortune 500 context, any and all involvement in the patent system in any, shape, or form is absolutely certain to cause you the net loss of time, energy, money, and sanity. Besides ending up a totally useless and utterly unnecessary psychic energy sink." http://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf
"Furthermore, RCA also claimed invention of FM radio and won its own patent on the technology. A patent fight between RCA and Armstrong ensued. RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States. The undermining of the Yankee Network and his costly legal battles brought ruin to Armstrong, by then almost penniless and emotionally distraught. Eventually, after Armstrong's death, many of the lawsuits were decided or settled in his favor, greatly enriching his estate and heirs. But the decisions came too late for Armstrong himself to enjoy his legal vindication." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong#FM_radio
Note that the very original marketing for Lotus 1-2-3 relied on the concept that this one program could be used for spreadsheets, databases, and word processing (each cell could be a paraqraph with its own word wrap). Plan B turned out to sell better.
Uh, I'd rather have some difficulty steering a car going in a straight line as it slows to a stop, then have an easy time steering it down the highway at 125.
Business has responded to the tons of obsolete COBOL code out there, by filling in the gap with zillions of fresh BAs and MBAs implementing corporate policies juggling millions of dollars, in Microsoft Access.
Honestly, I feel like a sucker. If you believed the math on his tax plan worked, you damn well should feel like a sucker.
Do you think that Obama's tax plan (whatever that is) is working? Trillion dollar deficits have become the normal under Obama even though he promised to cut our annual deficits in half. He even said that if he didn't get this accomplished that he should only be a one term President. I guess that makes two promises broken in this example.
Yeah. those dang tax and spend Democrats, we were doing so well under Reagan then the next morning, there's a Kenyan socialist in office who took the Reagan Surplus and gave it away to his army of black drug addicts and illegal Hispanic gangsters, then had to raise taxes sky high to finance some stupid war in Iraq he started over the strenuous objections of the Republican party, only because he confiscated their firearms to prevent their armed rebellion against said madness. That about it?
yeah. that's the thing. God is a jealous God; He says so Himself. He demands we believe in Him and Him alone. Many of His followers believe, to a smaller or larger degree, that He needs their help in implementing this. They may go through spasms of tolerating those who are damned by their Evil Choice to defy their Creator, but at any given time there are plenty who are willing to enforce the rules (probably they think that will earn them points as Teacher's pet). But evolution doesn't give a damn whether anybody believes in it or not. Of course, some of its fans might want to enforce such belief, but that's largely from a sense of self-preservation, a wish to avoid going to faith healers in the future, etc., not from any directive from evolution.
The Universe was clearly designed for the benefit of the Ebola Virus.
Here's my theory on the vanishing honeybee colonies: the Rapture happened, but the only creatures who deserved it were those hardworking sinless honeybees. The rest of us are clearly here descending into Hell.
"The Lord created the universe 6,000 years ago, but then rigged it to look like it was very old, the same way crooked antique dealers will phony up a cheap table to make it look like a valuable antique. He even makes it appear that distant galaxies are tens of billions of years old, the big fibber. So, love God, worship Him, follow His laws, but don't believe anything He tells you."
More a problem of small and/or mobile power storage. For the usual centralized giant power stations that we seem to be fixated on (despite the obvious handicap of dependency on the "grid" which has to be scaled up to meet absolute maximum power needs and is therefore excess capacity 96% of the time) at least we can store energy in vacuum housed magnetically driven flywheels, which can be amaxingly efficient, but have certain problems which make them better for use inside large concrete blockhouses than in a Toyota or an Ipod.
The correct question is, can we curb our appetites so that we can live within sustainable parameters, or are we just going to continue digging the hole deeper? Like so many other human civilizations through history managed to put themselves out of business with local ecological catastrophes, because they couldn't figure out how to stop doing stupid useless crap that was destroying them, like chopping down trees in order to erect giant stone heads, or using a 6,000 lb truck every time they need to move a 150 lb person a couple of miles? Hell, what am I saying, we spend zillions of dollars a year in order to avoid eating vegetables and/or deal (not very successfully) with the negative effects of not eating them, then complain about the high cost of medical care. On behalf of future generations, I'd like to say "Goodbye advanced human civilization, it was nice knowing you, at least in history books."
A different story: An American visiting Australia rolled his car on the highway and was badly injured. When he woke up, the nurse told him he was in hospice. He freaked out, yelling "Damn your government medicine! You just brought me here to die!" The nurse had to reassure him, "That's not true, mate! They brought you here yesterdie!"
If they let you reset your password after you've established yourself by answering a few personal questions (mother's maiden name, high school mascot, etc.), then clearly the password is redundant and just a more errorprone proxy for asking you those questions. Seems to me a much improved system would be to have you register the answers to a large set of such questions, and login by answering a subset each time. (For those who are about to point out that a determined invader could find out the answers to these questions and impersonate you, let me point out that you don't have to register the actual true answers; your mother's maiden name may well be mudhead and your high school mascot the fighting turds, as far as some random website knows).
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You're all a bunch of socialist communists.
Certainly the power of the invisible hand of the free market will ensure that CEOs are paid correctly. Since every employee of a major corporation is bombarded every couple of years by HR studies financed by management proving that the salaries in the organization are perfectly aligned with productivity and the employment market, it goes without saying that of course the corporate boards are commissioning extensive studies rating the effectiveness of each CEO candidate and detailing the difference in income the company would experience if it picked one or another, and thus calculating the scientifically most accurate salary for them. I mean, given our unshakable faith that the free market provides optimal results and that here in the US, which is beyond any doubt the finest country in the world in terms of all parameters, the free market functions perfectly unless the government gets involved; well then anything other than that kind of perfect alignment of salary with results would be unthinkable.
Spamhaus would be a great name for a band.
Hydrogen is still a pain in the ass to deal with; it attacks metals, it doesn't behave nicely when compressed (although that's typically solved by absorbing it on some solvent-soaked cardboard in the tank or some such, as with acetylene), it's leaky since it's such a small molecule, and it's hard to see the flames when it burns.
Consider; if the Nazis hadn't gotten rid of their Jewish physicists by various means, and abandoned their "Jewish physics" with all the fuzziness and lack of nice Prussian precision which Newtonian physics provided, they would have had The Bomb first.
I've come to hypothesize that it's symptomatic; any society which has a defined goal of eradicating some segment of itself on the grounds of ethnicity or religion or gender or some other meaningless property, not only loses the contributions of those members, but also must devote some of the remaining time and effort to that destructive infighting, and thus in the end must be handicapped in competition with a generally equal society which is not crippling itself in that manner.
Oh no, Ms. Mayer is exactly right. Although her company is ready to risk millions of dollars on the work of various employees, it has to be remembered that those employees are either too dumb to figure out where/how they can work most effectively, or too infantile to care.
Dyson Sphere. Would solve the problem of varying hours of daylight by geography.
The flaw in your argument is that those 8 year olds enter8ing the work force weren't all that terrificat being employees either.
http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf
"Over the years, I have seen hundreds of examples of money machine people being severely done in by the patent system. Even murdered by it in several heart-attack-during-litigation cases. And not once did I see anyone approaching the patent system on a small scale basis and profiting from it. Ever. Once again: Unless you are well within a Fortune 500 context, any and all involvement in the patent system in any, shape, or form is absolutely certain to cause you the net loss of time, energy, money, and sanity. Besides ending up a totally useless and utterly unnecessary psychic energy sink." http://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf
"Furthermore, RCA also claimed invention of FM radio and won its own patent on the technology. A patent fight between RCA and Armstrong ensued. RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States. The undermining of the Yankee Network and his costly legal battles brought ruin to Armstrong, by then almost penniless and emotionally distraught. Eventually, after Armstrong's death, many of the lawsuits were decided or settled in his favor, greatly enriching his estate and heirs. But the decisions came too late for Armstrong himself to enjoy his legal vindication."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong#FM_radio
Look at it this way; Excel is by a zillion miles the most successful object oriented programming language ever.
Note that the very original marketing for Lotus 1-2-3 relied on the concept that this one program could be used for spreadsheets, databases, and word processing (each cell could be a paraqraph with its own word wrap). Plan B turned out to sell better.
"Protective Valve Float"
Uh, I'd rather have some difficulty steering a car going in a straight line as it slows to a stop, then have an easy time steering it down the highway at 125.
Business has responded to the tons of obsolete COBOL code out there, by filling in the gap with zillions of fresh BAs and MBAs implementing corporate policies juggling millions of dollars, in Microsoft Access.
Honestly, I feel like a sucker.
If you believed the math on his tax plan worked, you damn well should feel like a sucker.
Do you think that Obama's tax plan (whatever that is) is working? Trillion dollar deficits have become the normal under Obama even though he promised to cut our annual deficits in half. He even said that if he didn't get this accomplished that he should only be a one term President. I guess that makes two promises broken in this example.
You mean the deficit which was maximum during Obama's first year, the budget for which was written under the Bush administration, and which has been going down every year since? http://images.scribblelive.com/2011/7/26/60302364-7d87-4258-916b-64dbf67d7fcb.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-asCDUk24jRE/TmFuQXObXyI/AAAAAAAAAlA/3bN1fjT3dXE/s1600/deficit%2Bbush%2Bvs%2Bobama.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QlTEkX7iyFY/TMcZsPI1RaI/AAAAAAAAA0c/KMgwo7QM1gU/s1600/Bush-Obama-Deficits.jpg
Yeah. those dang tax and spend Democrats, we were doing so well under Reagan then the next morning, there's a Kenyan socialist in office who took the Reagan Surplus and gave it away to his army of black drug addicts and illegal Hispanic gangsters, then had to raise taxes sky high to finance some stupid war in Iraq he started over the strenuous objections of the Republican party, only because he confiscated their firearms to prevent their armed rebellion against said madness.
That about it?
yeah. that's the thing. God is a jealous God; He says so Himself. He demands we believe in Him and Him alone. Many of His followers believe, to a smaller or larger degree, that He needs their help in implementing this. They may go through spasms of tolerating those who are damned by their Evil Choice to defy their Creator, but at any given time there are plenty who are willing to enforce the rules (probably they think that will earn them points as Teacher's pet).
But evolution doesn't give a damn whether anybody believes in it or not. Of course, some of its fans might want to enforce such belief, but that's largely from a sense of self-preservation, a wish to avoid going to faith healers in the future, etc., not from any directive from evolution.
The Universe was clearly designed for the benefit of the Ebola Virus.
Here's my theory on the vanishing honeybee colonies: the Rapture happened, but the only creatures who deserved it were those hardworking sinless honeybees. The rest of us are clearly here descending into Hell.
"The Lord created the universe 6,000 years ago, but then rigged it to look like it was very old, the same way crooked antique dealers will phony up a cheap table to make it look like a valuable antique. He even makes it appear that distant galaxies are tens of billions of years old, the big fibber. So, love God, worship Him, follow His laws, but don't believe anything He tells you."
This appeared in the email right after "Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar?"
We could use the same algorithm to report to the boss "How far along is your project?"
More a problem of small and/or mobile power storage. For the usual centralized giant power stations that we seem to be fixated on (despite the obvious handicap of dependency on the "grid" which has to be scaled up to meet absolute maximum power needs and is therefore excess capacity 96% of the time) at least we can store energy in vacuum housed magnetically driven flywheels, which can be amaxingly efficient, but have certain problems which make them better for use inside large concrete blockhouses than in a Toyota or an Ipod.
True; if we ever come up with a really good battery or equivalent (fuel cell, whatever) Everything Will Change.
The correct question is, can we curb our appetites so that we can live within sustainable parameters, or are we just going to continue digging the hole deeper? Like so many other human civilizations through history managed to put themselves out of business with local ecological catastrophes, because they couldn't figure out how to stop doing stupid useless crap that was destroying them, like chopping down trees in order to erect giant stone heads, or using a 6,000 lb truck every time they need to move a 150 lb person a couple of miles?
Hell, what am I saying, we spend zillions of dollars a year in order to avoid eating vegetables and/or deal (not very successfully) with the negative effects of not eating them, then complain about the high cost of medical care. On behalf of future generations, I'd like to say "Goodbye advanced human civilization, it was nice knowing you, at least in history books."
A different story:
An American visiting Australia rolled his car on the highway and was badly injured. When he woke up, the nurse told him he was in hospice. He freaked out, yelling "Damn your government medicine! You just brought me here to die!" The nurse had to reassure him, "That's not true, mate! They brought you here yesterdie!"
If they let you reset your password after you've established yourself by answering a few personal questions (mother's maiden name, high school mascot, etc.), then clearly the password is redundant and just a more errorprone proxy for asking you those questions. Seems to me a much improved system would be to have you register the answers to a large set of such questions, and login by answering a subset each time. (For those who are about to point out that a determined invader could find out the answers to these questions and impersonate you, let me point out that you don't have to register the actual true answers; your mother's maiden name may well be mudhead and your high school mascot the fighting turds, as far as some random website knows).