Salaries - $120k / eng / year -> 360 millions
Computer - $5000/eng -> 15 millions,
Real estate - 200sqft/eng, $40 / sqft.year ->.24 millions
Snacks - $80 / eng / month -> ~3 millions
There is already an awesome battery tech, holding about 10kWh of energy in a small package that already exist, it's good old gas. The only problem is that it takes 100 millions years to produce.
but that's not the job of engineers, it's the job of the science, first, and *only then* do engineers come into play to wonder whether the process is tangible and could be commercialized. If I'm not mistaken, we already know plenty of battery tech, but they are not commercially viable (either unsafe, or process don't scale, etc.).
How much people does it take to harvest and process manually a hundred acres ? Scale that to the average Canadian farm size of 780 acres. Today, a crew of a few people (one driver for the harvester, one support tractor + trailer, plus a pair of dump truck) can harvest and process that much in a 40h week. Now, a diesel engine in a truck in pretty much the same as the diesel engine in the harvester, so job redundancy, the mechanics shop has now 3 employee instead of 2. At worst, you get a few more people in a fab shop when the farmer cannot hack something up, but that pretty much stop here. So really, you can harvest a complete farm with 12 people (including shared support). That doesn't even compare to the hundreds of jobs cut when mechanization was introduced.
I never said it was an excellent thing, I merely point out that when Apple does a thing, it's OK, when Microsoft is doing it it's evil. Double standard... [yet, it's probably the same hipster who vote Democrat, so I'm not surprised...]
If what is written further below, so can you here. But I get it, it's easy to puke on Microsoft. You wouldn't sadden all the Apple fanboys around here...
And FWIW, the 2nd Amendment was written with the possibility of civilians to get the same small arms as the government. At the time, a muzzleloader musket *was* a military-grade weapon. The British *did* implement gun control, in 1774 with an import ban on firearms and gunpowder and ran confiscations of firearms and gunpowder in 1774-75. So if you want to re-iterate history, be my guest, but you're gonna have blood on your hands.
No such newly manufactured weapon is being legally sold to civilians since 1986. Civilians *can* get pre-1986 ban full-auto weapon in *some* states after applying to the BATFE... and paying above $15k for the weapon. Which was not the case here, so STFU.
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What numbers are you factoring in ?
Salaries - $120k / eng / year -> 360 millions
Computer - $5000/eng -> 15 millions,
Real estate - 200sqft/eng, $40 / sqft.year ->.24 millions
Snacks - $80 / eng / month -> ~3 millions
That's about 400millions / year.
There is already an awesome battery tech, holding about 10kWh of energy in a small package that already exist, it's good old gas. The only problem is that it takes 100 millions years to produce.
but that's not the job of engineers, it's the job of the science, first, and *only then* do engineers come into play to wonder whether the process is tangible and could be commercialized. If I'm not mistaken, we already know plenty of battery tech, but they are not commercially viable (either unsafe, or process don't scale, etc.).
My life is precious to me. The life of an untouchable kid in India's slum isn't.
How much people does it take to harvest and process manually a hundred acres ? Scale that to the average Canadian farm size of 780 acres. Today, a crew of a few people (one driver for the harvester, one support tractor + trailer, plus a pair of dump truck) can harvest and process that much in a 40h week. Now, a diesel engine in a truck in pretty much the same as the diesel engine in the harvester, so job redundancy, the mechanics shop has now 3 employee instead of 2. At worst, you get a few more people in a fab shop when the farmer cannot hack something up, but that pretty much stop here. So really, you can harvest a complete farm with 12 people (including shared support). That doesn't even compare to the hundreds of jobs cut when mechanization was introduced.
... or all these sub-prime lender who contract 20% auto loans, or "subprime" mortgage.
of course it has. Modern combine harvester allow a single person to harvest a hundreds acres field in a day. (cf. http://www.bourgault.com/Searc...)
Which makes lifetime detention without possibility of parole even more inhumane. Death penalty almost looks like heaven in comparison...
Porn ownership itself is soon gonna be a crime. How dare you challenge vagina power ?
Deadpool included such b&s tactics... I was very disappointed by the lack of back story to that movie...
I never said it was an excellent thing, I merely point out that when Apple does a thing, it's OK, when Microsoft is doing it it's evil. Double standard... [yet, it's probably the same hipster who vote Democrat, so I'm not surprised...]
If what is written further below, so can you here. But I get it, it's easy to puke on Microsoft. You wouldn't sadden all the Apple fanboys around here...
Apple did the same with El Capitan...
Shut the fuck up and suck my white hard dick, you motherfucker'... and don't forget to swallow once you're done.
Like it or not, but whites are still +75% of the US population. So, yes..
Better than SUV, Hummers !
People value their own lives..
If the EU is so awesome, why hasn't Switzerland joined yet ?
Variation on a theme.
probably not, you'd lead directly to the Clinton foundation.
sure, a rental truck, diesel fuel and fertilizer. All without a single permit or license...
You have no Rights not to have your feeling hurt.
And FWIW, the 2nd Amendment was written with the possibility of civilians to get the same small arms as the government. At the time, a muzzleloader musket *was* a military-grade weapon. The British *did* implement gun control, in 1774 with an import ban on firearms and gunpowder and ran confiscations of firearms and gunpowder in 1774-75. So if you want to re-iterate history, be my guest, but you're gonna have blood on your hands.
No such newly manufactured weapon is being legally sold to civilians since 1986. Civilians *can* get pre-1986 ban full-auto weapon in *some* states after applying to the BATFE... and paying above $15k for the weapon. Which was not the case here, so STFU.
Atheism *is* a religion, which generally goes along with Statism.