It would be a big incentive to attraact the best of the best from around the world to the United States. It would go hand-in-hand with smart immigration policies that tried to retain that talent.
The problem is that a fraction of what the immigrant earns is sent out of the country. Thus only part of the benefit to the corporation stays.
Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation's interests aren't aligned with the country, nor has it any pressure to make them so.
Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation is just a product of the economical system. Society cannot specify how to create businesses following a certain set of rules and then claim that the resulting corporation is bad.
A solution would be to have the state control the corporate behaviours that harm the country, however that doesn't work because the state is not the country, just a subset of individuals who are vulnerable to corporation power, which was given by the rules decided by society.
A solution to that would be society removing that power from the corporation, but the corporation was made following rules that society itself imposed, so its the rules that would have to be changed first.
And we don't know what other set of rules works better than the current one, nor whether the new corporate-like entity crerated by them would have even stronger power over the state.
Instead of spending millions on dumb sci-fi fantasy weapons, they should be doing better killer drones than, after bombing an area, land, transform into humanoid form and chase the survivors while threatening them with a hard metallic voice. "We must destroy! Death to humans... TERRORISTS! We meant terrorists!"
I know it's fun to get stuff for free (I do it myself), but authors still deserve to be paid.
I don't understand this concept of "deserve" you have. How much money do I deserve from this post I'm writing? Who do I deserve it from? The government? The readers? How much do you owe me?
I notice almost none of ye suggested an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies.
I notice you didn't suggest a method for the unemployed to get paid for their thoughts or pictures of their cats.
Come to think of it, how ever are going to tell a joke on line? The chicken with almost absolute certainty did not cross the road!
"Under which circumstances or with what purpose would a hypothetic chicken have crossed a road, if such chicken had indeed crossed such road, hypothesis with no known basis on any fact or occurrence? The character hereby presented as "the chicken" does not represent any specific existing or imaginary chicken nor, metaphorically, any other being. Notice that the nature of the road has been purposefully excluded from the question to enhance it's humorous nature."
correct, it will use a very, very long drinking straw.
In case you confuse someone, I'd like to clarify the probe doesn't actually use a long straw but far more technological means. In this case, two robotic arms were installed in the probe so it could correctly hold a dowsing stick.
Has that method ever worked in the history of mankind?
Fear doesn't create compliance, just secrecy. And harm (physical or otherwise) doesn't only create fear, but also hate. So they are turning an existing enemy into a better hidden and more hateful enemy. What a fantastic result, they must be proud of their strategical prowess.
Well, they could have been a tiny bit more sincere: "he argues that it's time all ISPs adopt the two-week rule." could be replaced by: "he argues that he'd like all consumers to adopt ISPs that apply the two-week rule."
We might consider starting to treat CEOs as the people at the top of a system that works by extracting from people the maximum amount of money.
I'm happy when profit pushes a CEO in the same direction as morality, but let's not mix both. The wind isn't kind when it pushes you to safety and unkind when it pushes you to your death.
If you want to congratulate someone, congratulate those who teach the public to vote that "two week rule" with their money. Congratulate those who teach because they believe knowledge gives freedom.
That was more or less my point. People have a bad reaction to the consequence of a consequence, which is irrational.
A - Capitalism generates very rich people and very poor people. B - We don't know of a system better than capitalism.
Taking both into account, it makes to sense to cry "OMG! Poor people!". At the most one could be sad about the lack of an intellectual lighthouse that shows the rest of us the path to a better system.
I'm not ashamed to admit I don't know how to correct the basic flaws of capitalism. However, I don't feel offended by the people who played the system to get to the top better than me.
I never said I agreed with capitalism. I'm just tired of people crying about its obvious and direct consequences, and then say it's the bestest system of them all because it promotes competition and excellence.
Might prove useful. eventually the 99% will fight the 1% by pure physical means (in the form of accelerated lead). At that point, being in an island with a jet might be the best idea.
Now that I think on it, for the 1%, the zombie apocalypse has already started. Repeat with me "braaaaaaaaaaaains."
Just because someone is intimately familiar with the size of something in no way makes it easy or intuitive to convert that to something that is on a massively different scale.
"the asteroid was at a distance between the orbit of the space station (about 1 Earth radii) and geosynchronous satellites (about 6 Earth radii)."
1 to 6.
That's like not knowing how many times your height is a bus stop.
Believe it or not, stuff like the radius of the earth, the length of the equator, or even the size of your own country is called trivia. Most people don't know them because they don't have an immediate bearing on their life. That doesn't make them stupid.
I disagree. Not knowing the radius of the earth to the point of not being able to visualize 10000km, which would essentially mean not knowing whether it's closer to 1000 or to 100000km (as with any better precision than that you already surpass the articles') isn't trivia for me.
You scare me, btw. I now wonder what other things you consider to be trivial knowledge. The motion of the planets? What are those bright spots on the night sky? How does an engine work? How does a lightbulb work?
Temperature is defined in statistical terms (the Boltzman constant in the eV->K formula assumes a certain type of randomness). But... you can't have a rich enough statistical set of particles in the volume of a geometrical point to actually define a temperature for that point.
If you concentrate the light on a larger volume and then progressively reduce that volume, how does the temperature grow?
It is possible to be highly intelligent, yet not have the ability to make a good mental picture for 10000 km, especially if you don't know the size of the earth or the distance of various satellites orbiting it.
I don't wish to go into definitions of "intelligence" but you don't really need to know the size of the earth (although it's quite sad) to know what ten thousand kms are.
Unless you don't know the size of your own country, or region. You would also have to not know the length of the equator, how far you can travel by car in a day, etc.
We're not talking parsecs here; it's ten fricking thousand kilometers. I think it's a knowledge that can be assumed taking into account the nature of the news.
:) (so where's the mistake in the - naive - statement of: "If you concentrate no matter how small amount of energy in a geometric point, the temperature of that point becomes infinite > 40 x 10^7 K required by D-D fusion"?)
I don't know. I'd intuitively guess that the temperature is limited by the total energy at the point of emmission, but I don't know why.
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*: The name of the fighter's mothership shall be left as an exercise for the reader.
And, more importantly, if you remove one drop, is it still a storm?
It would be a big incentive to attraact the best of the best from around the world to the United States. It would go hand-in-hand with smart immigration policies that tried to retain that talent.
The problem is that a fraction of what the immigrant earns is sent out of the country. Thus only part of the benefit to the corporation stays.
Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation's interests aren't aligned with the country, nor has it any pressure to make them so.
Deeper still, the problem is that the corporation is just a product of the economical system. Society cannot specify how to create businesses following a certain set of rules and then claim that the resulting corporation is bad.
A solution would be to have the state control the corporate behaviours that harm the country, however that doesn't work because the state is not the country, just a subset of individuals who are vulnerable to corporation power, which was given by the rules decided by society.
A solution to that would be society removing that power from the corporation, but the corporation was made following rules that society itself imposed, so its the rules that would have to be changed first.
And we don't know what other set of rules works better than the current one, nor whether the new corporate-like entity crerated by them would have even stronger power over the state.
They have clearly too much money in their hands.
Instead of spending millions on dumb sci-fi fantasy weapons, they should be doing better killer drones than, after bombing an area, land, transform into humanoid form and chase the survivors while threatening them with a hard metallic voice. "We must destroy! Death to humans... TERRORISTS! We meant terrorists!"
I know it's fun to get stuff for free (I do it myself), but authors still deserve to be paid.
I don't understand this concept of "deserve" you have. How much money do I deserve from this post I'm writing?
Who do I deserve it from? The government? The readers? How much do you owe me?
I notice almost none of ye suggested an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies.
I notice you didn't suggest a method for the unemployed to get paid for their thoughts or pictures of their cats.
Come to think of it, how ever are going to tell a joke on line? The chicken with almost absolute certainty did not cross the road!
"Under which circumstances or with what purpose would a hypothetic chicken have crossed a road, if such chicken had indeed crossed such road, hypothesis with no known basis on any fact or occurrence? The character hereby presented as "the chicken" does not represent any specific existing or imaginary chicken nor, metaphorically, any other being. Notice that the nature of the road has been purposefully excluded from the question to enhance it's humorous nature."
correct, it will use a very, very long drinking straw.
In case you confuse someone, I'd like to clarify the probe doesn't actually use a long straw but far more technological means. In this case, two robotic arms were installed in the probe so it could correctly hold a dowsing stick.
Has that method ever worked in the history of mankind?
Fear doesn't create compliance, just secrecy. And harm (physical or otherwise) doesn't only create fear, but also hate. So they are turning an existing enemy into a better hidden and more hateful enemy. What a fantastic result, they must be proud of their strategical prowess.
Well, they could have been a tiny bit more sincere: "he argues that it's time all ISPs adopt the two-week rule." could be replaced by: "he argues that he'd like all consumers to adopt ISPs that apply the two-week rule."
We might consider starting to treat CEOs as the people at the top of a system that works by extracting from people the maximum amount of money.
I'm happy when profit pushes a CEO in the same direction as morality, but let's not mix both. The wind isn't kind when it pushes you to safety and unkind when it pushes you to your death.
If you want to congratulate someone, congratulate those who teach the public to vote that "two week rule" with their money. Congratulate those who teach because they believe knowledge gives freedom.
Yes. Pleasantly surprised.
It proves that the Android app store is not strongly censored.
Most of these contact less cards, etc. are found in Europe, where the majority of credit cards are stolen.
Good ol' US still uses the crappy magnetic strips. Sure they are just as easy to clone, but only through contact with a skimmer.
Are you sure they're not exclusively used in america?
Odd it's written the way it was. Luckily, everyone on this site will understand Yoda speak.
Best comment of the day :)
The first part only. The second sentence uncomprehensible was.
That was more or less my point. People have a bad reaction to the consequence of a consequence, which is irrational.
A - Capitalism generates very rich people and very poor people.
B - We don't know of a system better than capitalism.
Taking both into account, it makes to sense to cry "OMG! Poor people!". At the most one could be sad about the lack of an intellectual lighthouse that shows the rest of us the path to a better system.
I'm not ashamed to admit I don't know how to correct the basic flaws of capitalism. However, I don't feel offended by the people who played the system to get to the top better than me.
go fuck yourself, ya greedy infidel!
Learn to read.
I never said I agreed with capitalism. I'm just tired of people crying about its obvious and direct consequences, and then say it's the bestest system of them all because it promotes competition and excellence.
I beleive that the scientific unit for area is football field.
American or European?
American. ...
NO! EUROPEAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Might prove useful. eventually the 99% will fight the 1% by pure physical means (in the form of accelerated lead). At that point, being in an island with a jet might be the best idea.
Now that I think on it, for the 1%, the zombie apocalypse has already started. Repeat with me "braaaaaaaaaaaains."
it still wouldn't be all that appropriate response to the criticism of utterly ridiculous wealth disparity in the world.
No criticism about the ridiculous wealth disparity in the world is appropriate if it comes from someone who spends significantly more than his share.
And people in Africa starve to death, ridiculous.
Working as intended.
If you don't like capitalism, propose a better system.
the 141-square-mile island
I can't comprehend that size. Could we have the area in asteroid passing distances? Earth radiuses works too.
It depends on whether you order them chronologically or alphabetically.
Just because someone is intimately familiar with the size of something in no way makes it easy or intuitive to convert that to something that is on a massively different scale.
"the asteroid was at a distance between the orbit of the space station (about 1 Earth radii) and geosynchronous satellites (about 6 Earth radii)."
1 to 6.
That's like not knowing how many times your height is a bus stop.
Believe it or not, stuff like the radius of the earth, the length of the equator, or even the size of your own country is called trivia. Most people don't know them because they don't have an immediate bearing on their life. That doesn't make them stupid.
I disagree. Not knowing the radius of the earth to the point of not being able to visualize 10000km, which would essentially mean not knowing whether it's closer to 1000 or to 100000km (as with any better precision than that you already surpass the articles') isn't trivia for me.
You scare me, btw. I now wonder what other things you consider to be trivial knowledge. The motion of the planets? What are those bright spots on the night sky? How does an engine work? How does a lightbulb work?
Temperature is defined in statistical terms (the Boltzman constant in the eV->K formula assumes a certain type of randomness).
But... you can't have a rich enough statistical set of particles in the volume of a geometrical point to actually define a temperature for that point.
If you concentrate the light on a larger volume and then progressively reduce that volume, how does the temperature grow?
It is possible to be highly intelligent, yet not have the ability to make a good mental picture for 10000 km, especially if you don't know the size of the earth or the distance of various satellites orbiting it.
I don't wish to go into definitions of "intelligence" but you don't really need to know the size of the earth (although it's quite sad) to know what ten thousand kms are.
Unless you don't know the size of your own country, or region. You would also have to not know the length of the equator, how far you can travel by car in a day, etc.
We're not talking parsecs here; it's ten fricking thousand kilometers. I think it's a knowledge that can be assumed taking into account the nature of the news.
:) (so where's the mistake in the - naive - statement of: "If you concentrate no matter how small amount of energy in a geometric point, the temperature of that point becomes infinite > 40 x 10^7 K required by D-D fusion"?)
I don't know. I'd intuitively guess that the temperature is limited by the total energy at the point of emmission, but I don't know why.