The reason is simple: We need to stop letting the government make life difficult for American buisiness. The government already destroyed the credit market by subsidizing high risk loans and now we're facing a huge debt problem, not personal debt but government debt. Regulations have become crippling. It's choking American enterprise.
The large percentage of the sub prime loans weren't subsidized. Simple regulations/requirements on loan prudence, capital reserves and transparency for financial instruments like the infamous CDS would've saved the economy far more than changing subsidies. In fact, countries with more tightly regulated financial systems (such as Australia) did much better in the recent crisis than those that didn't.
Sure, the government is at fault (as are the businesses themselves for making imprudent investments), but blaming over-regulation and too much government interaction is just an ideological kneejerk. Sometimes regulations are good, sometimes they're bad but the important thing is you get them right instead of focusing on some narrow ideology.
I've personally always wanted to be in buisiness for myself, but recently it's become all but impossible due to the taxes, regulations and so on. You know what it takes to hire a single employee? Payroll tax, record keeping regulations, insurance, OSHA compliance, registration, W-40, workers comp insurance. I can't do it! It's gotten so bad no matter how bad I want to expand, I can't do it. The current administration has made it so much worse.
Half of the things you mentioned are there for your benefit, in particular when you get sued (just see what happens if you don't have insurance and you haven't kept proper records) or need to take a trip to the accountant. The other half are for the employee's benefit, in that they should be able to work for you without risking serious injury or at least being fairly compensated if they do. Really, it sounds awfully like you want a free ride here; employees are an investment, you have to pay money to make money. They may not be instantly profitable, but if you can't afford to pay for them, it's your business model that's wrong, not the government. As a business owner myself, you have to realize that the benefits of having a business come with a whole bunch of responsibility and risk.
The other way to do polarization with LCD is Hyundai's way. They use filters per row so you get half vertical resolution 3D per eye, kind of like an interlaced TV signal.
This seems to have the potential to be a lot easier and cheaper manufacturing process. Not only that if you can get LCD panels (or indeed any flat panel display technology) that has twice 1080P resolution in one or both dimensions, there are suddenly very few draw backs as there is no flickering (like shutter glasses), no ghosting (like iZ3D) and no loss of resolution.
More expensive yes, but the glasses are cheaper and a much easier sell if they're passive.
As to the second point, you can change the polarization at a pixel level. Because of this, you can display two images simultaneously and avoid flickering completely.
The iZ3D monitors vary the polarization per pixel so a particular pixel can be seen more or less by each eye - so you have a single brightness (per color element per pixel). This gives you the full resolution, but gives you a ghosting effect as pixels can bleed into each other and has problems with angle changes.
The Hyundai monitors use a cheaper/simpler system that only does filtering by rows, similar to an interlaced TV signal. This means you get effective half horizontal resolution.
LCDs themselves are switchable polarizing filters, so all you need to do is stack 2 LCD panels on top of each other. That way you can have one that does color and one that changes the angle of polarization.
In fact, that's exactly how the iZ3D monitors work.
WA was a penal settlement; Fremantle prison was built by convicts for the housing of convicts in the 1850s when they arrived in large numbers. It also happens to be one of the most interesting post-settlement historical sites in Australia.
I'd say Brisbane's roads are worse than even Adelaide in terms of danger. It's like instead of some sort of city planning, they just built roads where a special needs kid scrawled with a crayon.
Anecdotally, Brisbane is the only Australian city where I've personally witnessed the aftermath of an accident where a truck hit a man riding a bike. I actually had to drive between his corpse and his severed leg (it was the only open lane) while the police and paramedics tried to hold onto their lunches.
If you want better science and technology, you need to give the scientists and engineers more incentives, respect and recognition. I don't just mean respect and recognition in their field, I mean by society at large for creating the life in which we now live. They also need incentives that are proportional to their achievement; it's an absurd state of affairs where an executive can take home millions of dollars a year while some of those who've made the technology which is the cornerstone of our society often take home a 10th of that or less. Even more absurd that for some reason we value the average plumber's time ahead of that of the average engineer or scientist.
In many ways, these are the signs of a decaying society. The people who have been the architects of the greatest progress have been disenfranchised from receiving the benefits of their labor and because of it, they'll become detached and apathetic. Who's going to take their place seeing how they're treated? What incentive is there to continue their work?
In an odd coincidence, when those plants were growing with all that carbon dioxide in the air, it was a lot hotter than it is now! Obviously that warming wasn't man made so this must not be either, right?
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Actually, it's called System F.
Zing.
Yes, LPB. Well played!
At the same time, we called anyone with a low latency connection an LBP and they often dominated the server.
So you can't have sex because you forget how it works when you try?
It will suck when Warren Buffet cleans you out.
The reason is simple: We need to stop letting the government make life difficult for American buisiness. The government already destroyed the credit market by subsidizing high risk loans and now we're facing a huge debt problem, not personal debt but government debt. Regulations have become crippling. It's choking American enterprise.
The large percentage of the sub prime loans weren't subsidized. Simple regulations/requirements on loan prudence, capital reserves and transparency for financial instruments like the infamous CDS would've saved the economy far more than changing subsidies. In fact, countries with more tightly regulated financial systems (such as Australia) did much better in the recent crisis than those that didn't.
Sure, the government is at fault (as are the businesses themselves for making imprudent investments), but blaming over-regulation and too much government interaction is just an ideological kneejerk. Sometimes regulations are good, sometimes they're bad but the important thing is you get them right instead of focusing on some narrow ideology.
I've personally always wanted to be in buisiness for myself, but recently it's become all but impossible due to the taxes, regulations and so on. You know what it takes to hire a single employee? Payroll tax, record keeping regulations, insurance, OSHA compliance, registration, W-40, workers comp insurance. I can't do it! It's gotten so bad no matter how bad I want to expand, I can't do it. The current administration has made it so much worse.
Half of the things you mentioned are there for your benefit, in particular when you get sued (just see what happens if you don't have insurance and you haven't kept proper records) or need to take a trip to the accountant. The other half are for the employee's benefit, in that they should be able to work for you without risking serious injury or at least being fairly compensated if they do. Really, it sounds awfully like you want a free ride here; employees are an investment, you have to pay money to make money. They may not be instantly profitable, but if you can't afford to pay for them, it's your business model that's wrong, not the government. As a business owner myself, you have to realize that the benefits of having a business come with a whole bunch of responsibility and risk.
How about we reboot Hollywood and the media in general so that they can come up with some original ideas. You know, something new and awesome.
Alan Tudyk, is that you?
I mean, effective half vertical resolution.
The other way to do polarization with LCD is Hyundai's way. They use filters per row so you get half vertical resolution 3D per eye, kind of like an interlaced TV signal.
This seems to have the potential to be a lot easier and cheaper manufacturing process. Not only that if you can get LCD panels (or indeed any flat panel display technology) that has twice 1080P resolution in one or both dimensions, there are suddenly very few draw backs as there is no flickering (like shutter glasses), no ghosting (like iZ3D) and no loss of resolution.
More expensive yes, but the glasses are cheaper and a much easier sell if they're passive.
As to the second point, you can change the polarization at a pixel level. Because of this, you can display two images simultaneously and avoid flickering completely.
The iZ3D monitors vary the polarization per pixel so a particular pixel can be seen more or less by each eye - so you have a single brightness (per color element per pixel). This gives you the full resolution, but gives you a ghosting effect as pixels can bleed into each other and has problems with angle changes.
The Hyundai monitors use a cheaper/simpler system that only does filtering by rows, similar to an interlaced TV signal. This means you get effective half horizontal resolution.
No convenient way, apart from a second LCD panel.
LCDs themselves are switchable polarizing filters, so all you need to do is stack 2 LCD panels on top of each other. That way you can have one that does color and one that changes the angle of polarization.
In fact, that's exactly how the iZ3D monitors work.
There are technologies that allow you to do polarized 3D from an LCD display such as that used in the iZ3D monitors.
WA was a penal settlement; Fremantle prison was built by convicts for the housing of convicts in the 1850s when they arrived in large numbers. It also happens to be one of the most interesting post-settlement historical sites in Australia.
Well, that's debatable, Syria is still run by what is at least notionally a Socialist regime.
I'd say Brisbane's roads are worse than even Adelaide in terms of danger. It's like instead of some sort of city planning, they just built roads where a special needs kid scrawled with a crayon.
Anecdotally, Brisbane is the only Australian city where I've personally witnessed the aftermath of an accident where a truck hit a man riding a bike. I actually had to drive between his corpse and his severed leg (it was the only open lane) while the police and paramedics tried to hold onto their lunches.
If you want better science and technology, you need to give the scientists and engineers more incentives, respect and recognition. I don't just mean respect and recognition in their field, I mean by society at large for creating the life in which we now live. They also need incentives that are proportional to their achievement; it's an absurd state of affairs where an executive can take home millions of dollars a year while some of those who've made the technology which is the cornerstone of our society often take home a 10th of that or less. Even more absurd that for some reason we value the average plumber's time ahead of that of the average engineer or scientist.
In many ways, these are the signs of a decaying society. The people who have been the architects of the greatest progress have been disenfranchised from receiving the benefits of their labor and because of it, they'll become detached and apathetic. Who's going to take their place seeing how they're treated? What incentive is there to continue their work?
In an odd coincidence, when those plants were growing with all that carbon dioxide in the air, it was a lot hotter than it is now! Obviously that warming wasn't man made so this must not be either, right?
Hopefully what will happen with the 2038 problem is those of us that caused it will make enough money off it to live happily in retirement.
I thought it was known as "banking".
Or make for happily motivated super criminals with a sense of entitlement because they think everyone loves them.
Oh to be able to give you mod points.
Bob Hawke also held the world record for the fastest time to drink a yard glass. That not only makes him cool, that makes him hard as rocks.