It would be close to MAD, so it won't happen. Anyway, until now, the EU seems to be sane and have teeth in regards to monopolies. That is more than you can say for... any other area of the world. I would like to see that continue, it is really nice to have someone qith power be on your side for a change.
I think the EU could make it hard for Google to accept payment from European countries for ads shown in Europe. And if they really want to push it, forcing the EU ISPs to reroute DNS for google.com and youtube.com could be possible. But that runs the risk of enraging the population, depending on how much of a smear job against Google have been done before.
You spend the same amount of energy either way. (Probably more given massive losses to atmospheric drag such schemes suffer from.)
Yes and no. To lift a kg of matter into orbit, and to accelerate it to keep that orbit, you need a certain amount of energy. But this is only a small fraction of the energy an rocket uses to do this, because the rocket needs to accelerate all the fuel it is going to use later. So if you could accelrate the rocket before turning it on, you might save quite a lot of fuel.
The case fatality rate for the Spanish (1918) flu was >2.5%,[1] about 0.1% for the Asian (1956-58) and Hong Kong (1968-69) flus,[2] and
This is nowhere near 20%. Or did you mean people who got it every year? They would still need to get it for may years for the aggregate rate to be 20%. The rate of course depends on the age of the person. Old people who get it every year might quickly get to 20%.
Which is why these things are normally stopped by other cops, and, if the offending cop does not stop, he is arrested and prosecuted, right? When was the last time you heard of it? Does that support the hypothesis that most cops are decent persons when on the job?
Piracy of these software bleeds these companies and actually hurt earning potentials of nerds in America
Only if the piracy has a negative effect on the income of the companies. How many of the pirate's customers would have payed 50k for the software if they hadn't been able to buy it cheap?
The kilogram is sealed and only taken out every approximately every 50 years or so to compare to the secondary standards (and being cleaned, I think). It has apparantly lost weight relative to the secondary standards.
The variability from sample to sample of the isotopic abundances M(Si)
The content of impurities and vacancies (n)
Realisation of accurate density standards (m,V)
It is acceptable to use hours with SI units, whereas foot is not. Hours is "more" of a SI unit than foot is, if it makes sense to talk about degrees of SI'ness of units.
I've met someone who said that. It went something like "sure,I would like to be a board member, it's a lot of hours, but the pay is good. Wait, I get how much after tax? Forget it". Note that the marginal tax where I live is quite a bit higher than in the US. But of course, who you or I have met in insubstantial to the discussion. What matters is what systematic research finds. From what I have read, the results are generally mixed, with a tendency towards lower taxes leading to a higher supply of working hours.
A very small proportion of the population have always been responsible for most of the creativity. As such, your observation indicates that there is a higher proportion of men amongst the smartest people, but it doesn't say anything about the general population.
Men have a broader distribution than women in just about everything. If this is also the case for smarts, that would give the same observation. It would also mean more men are at the bottom of society, which is the case.
I don't know about smarter, but men have a broader distribution in just about anything wr can measure, why not also smarts? That would mean that we would see more men excelling, and more men doing horribly, which is what you observe if you look at the number of high earners and the prison population.
If you are a monopoly, you are not free to do things other businesses are free to do. For example, you are restricted in using your monopoly in one market to influence another market. This was what Microsoft did when they gave away their browser with their (monopoly) OS. In the same way, Google seems to have a monopoly in the search engine market. If they placed their own products higher than their competitors, that could be using their monopoly to influence other markets, and that could be illegal. Whether it is also unfair is up to your feeling of fairness.
I think it should be closer to mileage * number of axles * (weight/number of axles)^4 if it is to reflect road wear. Which means that cars should pay a negligible amount, and trucks should pay nearly all of the road tax. The wear put on the road by a truck is hundreds to thousands times higher than that of a car.
Of course, we might want to discern between money for making new roads, and money for replacing old roads. So I suppose is should be
X*mileage + Y*mileage*number of axles * (weight/number of axles)^4 ,where X/Y=(money spent on new roads)/(money spent on replacing old roads)
Is carbon copy that much harder to fake? I can see that it would be hard to do while people watched, but so would photocopying. And if you want to do it purely electronically, a cryptographically signed.pdf should do it, shouldn't it?
Yes, if they hadn't shared them with anyone, we should respect their right not to share them with anyone. However, they did share them, in the form of publishing, so they lost their right not to share them.
What the fuck gives you the right to decide what happens to my work?
Freedom of speech for starters.
Furthermore, the idea of owning ideas is ludicrous. That is not how humans work. We copy good ideas, and that fact is what makes us humans. It is what have allowed us to be where we are today. Without copying, fire would be reserved for one tribe, the wheel for another, and farming would be a local phenomenon in the middle East and China.
Finally, your work has been influenced by countless others before you, so if you claim that copying an idea is stealing, you are as much a thief, and more, than the people pirating your work.
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Great, fuel is so cheap that the price doesn't matter, so would you tell me where I can launch a metric ton into orbit for 100$? for 10,000$?
It would be close to MAD, so it won't happen. Anyway, until now, the EU seems to be sane and have teeth in regards to monopolies. That is more than you can say for ... any other area of the world. I would like to see that continue, it is really nice to have someone qith power be on your side for a change.
I think the EU could make it hard for Google to accept payment from European countries for ads shown in Europe. And if they really want to push it, forcing the EU ISPs to reroute DNS for google.com and youtube.com could be possible. But that runs the risk of enraging the population, depending on how much of a smear job against Google have been done before.
They do have authority over the Google offices in Europe.
You spend the same amount of energy either way. (Probably more given massive losses to atmospheric drag such schemes suffer from.)
Yes and no. To lift a kg of matter into orbit, and to accelerate it to keep that orbit, you need a certain amount of energy. But this is only a small fraction of the energy an rocket uses to do this, because the rocket needs to accelerate all the fuel it is going to use later. So if you could accelrate the rocket before turning it on, you might save quite a lot of fuel.
The case fatality rate for the Spanish (1918) flu was >2.5%,[1] about 0.1% for the Asian (1956-58) and Hong Kong (1968-69) flus,[2] and
This is nowhere near 20%. Or did you mean people who got it every year? They would still need to get it for may years for the aggregate rate to be 20%. The rate of course depends on the age of the person. Old people who get it every year might quickly get to 20%.
Which is why these things are normally stopped by other cops, and, if the offending cop does not stop, he is arrested and prosecuted, right? When was the last time you heard of it? Does that support the hypothesis that most cops are decent persons when on the job?
Piracy of these software bleeds these companies and actually hurt earning potentials of nerds in America
Only if the piracy has a negative effect on the income of the companies. How many of the pirate's customers would have payed 50k for the software if they hadn't been able to buy it cheap?
The kilogram is sealed and only taken out every approximately every 50 years or so to compare to the secondary standards (and being cleaned, I think). It has apparantly lost weight relative to the secondary standards.
Most silicon monocrystals are grown by the Czochralski process, in the shape of cylinders up to 2 m long and 30 cm in diameter (figure on the right)
The size of the monocrystal is not the problem.
From http://www.acpo.csiro.au/avogadro.htm
The limiting factors currently are:
The variability from sample to sample of the isotopic abundances M(Si)
The content of impurities and vacancies (n)
Realisation of accurate density standards (m,V)
It is acceptable to use hours with SI units, whereas foot is not. Hours is "more" of a SI unit than foot is, if it makes sense to talk about degrees of SI'ness of units.
I've met someone who said that. It went something like "sure,I would like to be a board member, it's a lot of hours, but the pay is good. Wait, I get how much after tax? Forget it". Note that the marginal tax where I live is quite a bit higher than in the US.
But of course, who you or I have met in insubstantial to the discussion. What matters is what systematic research finds. From what I have read, the results are generally mixed, with a tendency towards lower taxes leading to a higher supply of working hours.
Yes, I only thought of that after making my post, as somebody later in the thread commented on just that.
Road wear follows the fourth power rule, meaning that wear per axle is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the axle load.
A very small proportion of the population have always been responsible for most of the creativity. As such, your observation indicates that there is a higher proportion of men amongst the smartest people, but it doesn't say anything about the general population.
Men have a broader distribution than women in just about everything. If this is also the case for smarts, that would give the same observation. It would also mean more men are at the bottom of society, which is the case.
I don't know about smarter, but men have a broader distribution in just about anything wr can measure, why not also smarts? That would mean that we would see more men excelling, and more men doing horribly, which is what you observe if you look at the number of high earners and the prison population.
If you are a monopoly, you are not free to do things other businesses are free to do. For example, you are restricted in using your monopoly in one market to influence another market. This was what Microsoft did when they gave away their browser with their (monopoly) OS. In the same way, Google seems to have a monopoly in the search engine market. If they placed their own products higher than their competitors, that could be using their monopoly to influence other markets, and that could be illegal. Whether it is also unfair is up to your feeling of fairness.
I think it should be closer to mileage * number of axles * (weight/number of axles)^4 if it is to reflect road wear. Which means that cars should pay a negligible amount, and trucks should pay nearly all of the road tax. The wear put on the road by a truck is hundreds to thousands times higher than that of a car.
,where X/Y=(money spent on new roads)/(money spent on replacing old roads)
Of course, we might want to discern between money for making new roads, and money for replacing old roads. So I suppose is should be
X*mileage + Y*mileage*number of axles * (weight/number of axles)^4
The conclusion is correct, but the reasoning isn't: The wear is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the weight, it is not exponential.
Why would my car need a two-way comm channel on the Internet? I can possibly see reporting but accepting input? Why?
For providing entertainment and map, weather and traffic updates. That shouldn't be able to spill into the controls, but you never know.
Is carbon copy that much harder to fake? I can see that it would be hard to do while people watched, but so would photocopying. And if you want to do it purely electronically, a cryptographically signed .pdf should do it, shouldn't it?
If people are willing and able to forge a photocopy, wouldn't they be able to forge a carbon-copy?
Yes, if they hadn't shared them with anyone, we should respect their right not to share them with anyone. However, they did share them, in the form of publishing, so they lost their right not to share them.
Doesn't real3D use circular polarized light? I think I saw The Hobbit in a cinema with real3D, and that was circularly polarized light.
What the fuck gives you the right to decide what happens to my work?
Freedom of speech for starters.
Furthermore, the idea of owning ideas is ludicrous. That is not how humans work. We copy good ideas, and that fact is what makes us humans. It is what have allowed us to be where we are today. Without copying, fire would be reserved for one tribe, the wheel for another, and farming would be a local phenomenon in the middle East and China.
Finally, your work has been influenced by countless others before you, so if you claim that copying an idea is stealing, you are as much a thief, and more, than the people pirating your work.