I think that there are processes in the chemical industry that are useful to patent. One useful test for patentability might be the "If we told you to go ahead and keep it a trade secret, would the rest of society suffer from inability to license it?" test. That would take care of "one click ordering" and lots of software patents.
I wasn't talking about reducing the size of current nukes, but rather saying that there's no longer need for the uranium of the nukes made obsolete by the current nukes. I spent some time in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. I'm aware that fear of Russian missiles was a domestic sales job. When you say that USAF and USN are moving, sometimes I think it's rather that they're being moved. I think congress more than once has told them that they're getting anyways stuff that they've said they don't need, and if congress can do that to them, then I reckon congress can change suppliers on them as well. Doubtless not every member of the military is free of graft, but even if they were, congress seems more than sufficiently capable of making up for the lack.
If you can kill the same 10 million people with a smaller bomb and a more accurate missile that you used to be able to kill with a larger bomb and a less accurate missile, your weapon isn't less scary. It's just easier to hide.
But, as the missiles get more accurate, the bombs don't need as large a destruction radius, so there can be plenty of surplus Uranium burned without losing strategic advantage.
I think there could be a market for a hybrid between YubiKey and the inexpensive ($10-$20) usb stick fingerprint scanners available. If it acted like YubiKey does now but only released the password string on receipt of the fingerprint biometric information used to store it, that could also reduce the worry about losing the key. With also a battery and an RFID transceiver, the same losable key could be used for cars and doors.
So the Chinese mafia screws up and has two container loads of girls arrive on the same day. The intake processor only has room for one bunch, so a delivery driver gets bribed, and every trunk delivery comes with an extra Chinese girl that day...
But what happens when the UPS driver looks up in the table and sees that the box with the toaster oven will fit, and then opens up your trunk and sees 49 little boxes left by DHL a half hour earlier?
An appropriate concern - I think the delivery people would be inclined to report ones they find. It's probably best to transport dead bodies in a car whose boot requires a mechanical key.
This actually sounds better than the proposed system. Even with the problems you mention, a loan from the government where there's no choice about repayment is better, because you're only on the hook for the specific debt you choose. In the proposed system, anyone with an education pays the tax forever. When schools decide in the future to fire half the teaching staff in order to pay for a new stadium, graduates who would never have chosen to attend such a school have no choice but to pay for that. Paying back a loan, you at least get to choose the education you're buying.
At least billions. The Teledesic idea was a large constellation of LEO satellites - less latency, a smaller target area, lots more of the expensive satellites. I'm not suggesting they give away the service, but rather to sell it at break-even prices (for an at-capacity network) and profit (as previously) from looking at the data and selling advertising. It would be profitable in the long run, if the satellites didn't get shot down.
I wish they'd do a modern (eg LTE) version of what Teledesic claimed to intend. Global access to data communication with a direct link to Google's cloud services could be beneficial to huge numbers of people on the planet, and would also give Google the sort of infrastructure level access to data that they have seemed to enjoy having in the past.
I figured the rate by copy and pasting a 1000 word article into a word processor to do the word count. $.25 for a 2500 word article feels like an amount where the cost wouldn't inhibit my reading. I'd pay $2.50 for a 2500 word educational article that I would be inclined to save and refer to in the future, but for an analysis of current events over which my degree of personal control is microscopic at best, I always have Les Misérables for $.99 on Kindle hanging out in the back of my mind for comparison. One nice thing about paying this way is it would bring an end to dividing articles into multiple parts that make me wait for higher bandwidth advertising to load in order to get the rest of the text.
I would pay NYT $.0001 per word for articles of interest to me if the money didn't expire and I had a 7 second grace period for exiting stuff I clicked by mistake.
I've fished for king crab and opilio crab in the Bering Sea, and in the Sea of Okhotsk. I'm familiar with 40' seas and 80 knot winds. Since the rationalization, there's no intense time pressure on crab seasons anymore. The only limit to the schedule is set by (#$%!#$ slavery making) processing quota owning factories (& fuel consumption related economics), and if you have crab later than others and they still have processing quota available (& someone always will), they'll buy it. If you're green, incautious and working for a boat whose owner puts greed before safety, injury and death are easy to find (and not just in crab fishing), but if you're experienced and working o/b a safety first vessel, it's dangerous, but it's not getting-shot-at dangerous.
People who are poor and stupid are humans. The work environment where >60% of the people present are making more than $50k / yr is often very different from the work environment where the majority of your co-workers feel financial motivation to steal your lunch.
I think, for Amazon, part of the reason behind Prime is to force/enable them to improve their content/product delivery network. They don't want to sell slower shipping. They want to move up to same day shipping, so that they can sell you groceries and be able to insert their delivery and payment infrastructure into purchases you make from local farmers.
I have several credit cards. None of them charge me to have an account, and they all have a zero balance. They're useful when renting a car, as car rental companies don't like debit cards, and they also came in useful when my credit union froze my debit card until I convinced them that donating to the neoN900 project wasn't suspicious activity. Having credit cards isn't necessarily identical to having debt.
To the "normals," I think the term "gearheads" refers to mechanically inclined individuals who make (generally performance enhancing) custom alterations to the power train of their vehicles.
For them, the appellation is based on "gears" as opposed to "gear." Probably, a few people who use that definition are disdainfully amused at the notion that a Sunnyvale, CA based IT outfit hiring an NYT columnist thinks there's a paucity of gearheads in heartland USA.
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I think that there are processes in the chemical industry that are useful to patent. One useful test for patentability might be the "If we told you to go ahead and keep it a trade secret, would the rest of society suffer from inability to license it?" test. That would take care of "one click ordering" and lots of software patents.
The way is shut.
These documents were made by those who are dead.
The dead keep their order,
And none may these sort save those who are dead.
The way is shut.
The algorithm that can be named is not the eternal algorithm.
I wasn't talking about reducing the size of current nukes, but rather saying that there's no longer need for the uranium of the nukes made obsolete by the current nukes. I spent some time in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. I'm aware that fear of Russian missiles was a domestic sales job. When you say that USAF and USN are moving, sometimes I think it's rather that they're being moved. I think congress more than once has told them that they're getting anyways stuff that they've said they don't need, and if congress can do that to them, then I reckon congress can change suppliers on them as well. Doubtless not every member of the military is free of graft, but even if they were, congress seems more than sufficiently capable of making up for the lack.
If you can kill the same 10 million people with a smaller bomb and a more accurate missile that you used to be able to kill with a larger bomb and a less accurate missile, your weapon isn't less scary. It's just easier to hide.
Out of curiosity, do you find that they're really, really easy to fool for just anyone, or are they only easy to fool for smart people?
But, as the missiles get more accurate, the bombs don't need as large a destruction radius, so there can be plenty of surplus Uranium burned without losing strategic advantage.
I think there could be a market for a hybrid between YubiKey and the inexpensive ($10-$20) usb stick fingerprint scanners available. If it acted like YubiKey does now but only released the password string on receipt of the fingerprint biometric information used to store it, that could also reduce the worry about losing the key. With also a battery and an RFID transceiver, the same losable key could be used for cars and doors.
So the Chinese mafia screws up and has two container loads of girls arrive on the same day. The intake processor only has room for one bunch, so a delivery driver gets bribed, and every trunk delivery comes with an extra Chinese girl that day...
But what happens when the UPS driver looks up in the table and sees that the box with the toaster oven will fit, and then opens up your trunk and sees 49 little boxes left by DHL a half hour earlier?
An appropriate concern - I think the delivery people would be inclined to report ones they find. It's probably best to transport dead bodies in a car whose boot requires a mechanical key.
South Koreans watch CBS on Thursdays?
This actually sounds better than the proposed system. Even with the problems you mention, a loan from the government where there's no choice about repayment is better, because you're only on the hook for the specific debt you choose. In the proposed system, anyone with an education pays the tax forever. When schools decide in the future to fire half the teaching staff in order to pay for a new stadium, graduates who would never have chosen to attend such a school have no choice but to pay for that. Paying back a loan, you at least get to choose the education you're buying.
At least billions. The Teledesic idea was a large constellation of LEO satellites - less latency, a smaller target area, lots more of the expensive satellites. I'm not suggesting they give away the service, but rather to sell it at break-even prices (for an at-capacity network) and profit (as previously) from looking at the data and selling advertising. It would be profitable in the long run, if the satellites didn't get shot down.
I wish they'd do a modern (eg LTE) version of what Teledesic claimed to intend. Global access to data communication with a direct link to Google's cloud services could be beneficial to huge numbers of people on the planet, and would also give Google the sort of infrastructure level access to data that they have seemed to enjoy having in the past.
I figured the rate by copy and pasting a 1000 word article into a word processor to do the word count. $.25 for a 2500 word article feels like an amount where the cost wouldn't inhibit my reading. I'd pay $2.50 for a 2500 word educational article that I would be inclined to save and refer to in the future, but for an analysis of current events over which my degree of personal control is microscopic at best, I always have Les Misérables for $.99 on Kindle hanging out in the back of my mind for comparison. One nice thing about paying this way is it would bring an end to dividing articles into multiple parts that make me wait for higher bandwidth advertising to load in order to get the rest of the text.
So it's a Darwinian friend improvement game?
I would pay NYT $.0001 per word for articles of interest to me if the money didn't expire and I had a 7 second grace period for exiting stuff I clicked by mistake.
I've fished for king crab and opilio crab in the Bering Sea, and in the Sea of Okhotsk. I'm familiar with 40' seas and 80 knot winds. Since the rationalization, there's no intense time pressure on crab seasons anymore. The only limit to the schedule is set by (#$%!#$ slavery making) processing quota owning factories (& fuel consumption related economics), and if you have crab later than others and they still have processing quota available (& someone always will), they'll buy it. If you're green, incautious and working for a boat whose owner puts greed before safety, injury and death are easy to find (and not just in crab fishing), but if you're experienced and working o/b a safety first vessel, it's dangerous, but it's not getting-shot-at dangerous.
I've done commercial crab fishing, and you're mistaken.
People who are poor and stupid are humans. The work environment where >60% of the people present are making more than $50k / yr is often very different from the work environment where the majority of your co-workers feel financial motivation to steal your lunch.
I think, for Amazon, part of the reason behind Prime is to force/enable them to improve their content/product delivery network. They don't want to sell slower shipping. They want to move up to same day shipping, so that they can sell you groceries and be able to insert their delivery and payment infrastructure into purchases you make from local farmers.
... and then get them to shun you.
I have several credit cards. None of them charge me to have an account, and they all have a zero balance. They're useful when renting a car, as car rental companies don't like debit cards, and they also came in useful when my credit union froze my debit card until I convinced them that donating to the neoN900 project wasn't suspicious activity. Having credit cards isn't necessarily identical to having debt.
Here's one: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/DeafStudiesTeaching/dissert/BPS%20Ethical%20Guidelines.htm
To the "normals," I think the term "gearheads" refers to mechanically inclined individuals who make (generally performance enhancing) custom alterations to the power train of their vehicles. For them, the appellation is based on "gears" as opposed to "gear." Probably, a few people who use that definition are disdainfully amused at the notion that a Sunnyvale, CA based IT outfit hiring an NYT columnist thinks there's a paucity of gearheads in heartland USA.