I chose the 1950s saccharine theme for the comedic value.
The reason that Mrs. Smith takes the job is immaterial. That she takes the job, and her peers also take jobs, disturbs the location of thbe median income bracket, pushing it away from the low income bracket, and causing increased poverty.
Mr. And Mrs. Smith live in a quiet suburban neighborhood. Mr. Smith has a decent job. Nothing special, Bob Smith just runs a computerized screw press. Mrs. Smith stays at home, watching and caring for their lovely 3 year old daughter Tiffany.
As little Tiffany grew up, she started primary school, leaving Mrs. Smith with a great deal of unused time on her hands, and a rising food bill for their growing daughter.
One day, Mrs. Smith approached Mr. Smith about the prospects of taking on a part time job. She'd still be home in time to see their daughter Tiffany come home from school, and to ensure that all the domestic chores were done, and the family would get a little spending money they could use to go on a family vacation some time. Afterall, that's what the Jones family had done.
Little did Mr and Mrs smith realize, but as the amount of consumer buying power of the median household increases, so too does the cost of various consumer products, due to the intrinsic nature of the lw of supply and demand.
Here we see a simple graph, depicting the willingness to spend, intersecting the willingness of a merchant to sell.
As you can clearly see, that as Mr and Mrs smith's financial fortunes improve, their willingness to spend extra on products they routinely buy increases. The natural market reaction to this event, is the inevitable adjusted price offered by merchants.
Now, Mr. And Mrs. Smith are both required to work. Mr. Smith still works as a screw machine operator, and Mrs. Smith still works part time at the local nursing home. But, now that they are both working, the market has naturally taken advantage of their increased buying power. Now instead of Mrs. Smith working just to help improve their quaity of life, she has to work just to make sure the two of them can pay their bills each month.
Seeing that the two of them are still struggling financially due to increased costs of living, Mr Smith suggests that Mrs. Smith switch to a full time occupation...
Now, dear viewers.. where do you suppose this will lead?
In just 5 years time, Mr and Mrs smith will both be working full time jobs to purchase the same products they have always purchased, and which they were previously purchasing on only a single breadwinning paycheck just 10 years earlier.
Working a second job, or sending a spouse to work only improves your financial situation in the short term, unless the practice is significantly undesirable that the pactice does not become mainstream.
Market forces directly mirror, and correlate with the statistical mean of consumer spending and buying power. The very wealthy occupy only a very tiny section of the population distribution; see?
As such, the very wealthy never truly experience the dramatic decline in their buying power as a result of a financial practice becoming a mainstream idea. Their contribution to the greater statistical game is miniscule, compared to the market forces at work in the median income bracket.
As a result of Mr. And Mrs. Smith, and their neighbors, the Jones family, the Applebaum family across town, who were previously just barely getting by on Mr. Applebaum's miniscule pay as a waiter at a roadside cafe, are now deeply stricken with povery, as the prices of common and vital consumer goods quickly exceeds their ability to purchase.
What is a "thriving economy" you ask?
A thriving economy is one where products are highly available, and merchants feel a modest degree of surety that they will continue to make profits and growth of their business investments. As such, a "thriving economy" is one in which Mr and Mrs Smith, representatives of the majority of the median income bracket, have their income presicely balanced by a highly lucrative and market accepted pricing structure.
The attempts of Mr and Mrs Smith to climb the ladder of affluence has instead only shifted the status quo, plunging other families into poverty,
Me? I like to dabble in cookery, and had a hypothetical conversation with my sister concerning weed.
What I would place as a series of fake products for people to "want"?
"Stoner Joe's Finger Lickin' Cickin!"
Featuring a an "herb roasted" rotissery chicken, slathered in premium pot resin, and speckled with crushed thyme, rosemary, and lemon pepper.
And "Mary Jane's olde fashioned honey", a 50-50 mix of cannabis resin and pure honey, from bees exclusively fed on marijuana flowers. (100% organic, pesticide free!)
That kind of thing.
Put a disclaimer on the bottom saying that due to current and regressive legislation and practices by the united states of america, these fine products are currently unavailable, but please "want" them anyway, to get the word out.
How does the author of this article expect us to know that the pediatric doctors are properly setting the limits on television like they do for alcohol, if they don't properly punctuate their sentences!?
We might get the mistaken idea that they are regulating the placement of alcohol on top of televisions, or some similarly silly miscarriage of authority!
Clear and proper English is a necessity to proper communication!
See, congress knows who pays their bills, so to speak. Services like Pandora eliminate the fiction that the media companies are "needed". Without the sweet employment deals offered by big industries, like big media, the congress critters see famine on the horizon.
Services like pandora threaten their livelihoods by proxy.
Expect draconian enforcement efforts to regulate them out of the market.
Waste heat from high end laptops is an untapped market alright, but NOT for thermal insulation!
Imagine... (glitterly cliche disolve effect)
Are you a college student burdened by oppressive student loans that prevent you from owning even a simple microwave?
Do you own a cheap knockoff PC instead of an expensive macbook pro, like the rich kids in the fraternity?
Do you subsist on hotdogs, ramen, and undrinkable beer? (Camera pans to a stack of crushed old milkwakee cans.)
Well does cyber solutions (a limited liability corporation) have the product for you!
Introducing, the College Convector!
Using state of the art convenction oven technology in conjunction with the crotch roasting thermal exhaust from your no-name ball blistering and clearly non-apple laptop, the College Convector turns making pizza in the dormroom from a wild fantasy into a funfilled reality!
Imagine, using your Countless hours playing World of Warcraft to perform actually productive activities!
Like: Cooking a pizza, Making cookies, Making brownies, roasting a chicken, and SO MUCH MORE!
For only 3 easy payments of $29.95, Cyber Solutions will send you not only the College Convector, but also our patented water-chilled beef coozie, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Barring a major innovation in battery (or compact power generation) technology, this "dream laptop" can never exist.
Add to that, very efficient cooling/very efficient semiconductor tech.
The "lots of power" you want comes at a cost of increased power consumption. Increased power consumption means "very heavy battery", and "roasts your balls like christmas chestnuts on a campfire."
You need a very, very dense energy storage/generator that is also lightweight, and very efrficient cooling to remove the thermal exhaust of that power use.
There is research being done on all the needed areas, but it will be some time before such a creatue can exist; and by that time, your needs will have grown anyway.
I'd hold off on speculation until after forensic evaluation of the failed component (if it doesn't burn up in re-entry), and failure data sent from the vehicle. All we know for sure is that the safety kicked in, and the engine shut down.
I would expect a full inquiry as to why this happened. That's all.
If the ascent vector isn't correct, (which it wasn't, due to the failure), then the entry vector for the capsule will be different from the one planned. This is the likely cause of the orbcom deployment snafu.
It's basic geometry. The angle changed, so the insertion point changed. (The tangent intersection of the satelite orbit relative to the ascent vector) That's why the sat isn't in the proper place.
This is very true, but if you've ever worked in aerospace, you surely know about "tribal knowledge."
SpaceX would have started with a clean slate in that department, and without NASA's tribal knowledge... let's just say that I am very pleased with their performance.
I don't have access to the falcon 9's engineering data, so I can't comment definitively; take with copious salt.
A rocket engine is basically a fuel supply line coming from some fuel tanks, being injected under pressure into the reaction chamber, nestled inside the burn cone.
A failsafe system would clamp down fuel and oxidizer supplies at multiple points along the supply to ensure that neither reaches the reaction vessel in the event of a flow, pressure, or reaction anomaly. Such systems would need to be very robust, as a catastrophic failure of the reaction chamber wuld tend to destroy hydraulic lines and cause all manner of hell in there.
As such, I would expect such a system to be very "spring loaded" and "unpowered", if not activated by anomalous conditions directly. (Pressure drops, failsafe system deploys from pressure change as a purely mechanical safegard.)
The engine failure of the falcon 9 engine #1 is not really a bad thing. It served to prove the reliability of the shutoff system, and flight control hardware.
Considering the horrendous failure rate of NASA's early engines, (the kind that explode spectacularly), this managed failure situation is very promising.
Rest assured, there will likely be a strong inquiry concerning the manufacture and design of the engine fairing that failed, causing the pressure drop, and engine shutdown.
Managed failures like this one don't speak poorly of spacex. On the contrary. They show spacex planned ahead, and the failsafes they built actually work.
I learned more 'about' computers in gradeschool than I did in highschool. Our computer science teacher actually tried to explain what the actual parts of the computer were, and how they worked. This was back in the very early 90s, and most of the hardware in the labs were macintosh or apple IIe or IIgs.
By the time I hit middleschool, his curriculum had been curtailed down to essentially teaching word processing.
By highschool, it was a total joke, focused around... yet more word processing.
Not a single programming class. Not a single computer hardware class. Not a single class on the abstracted workings of computers.
Yay team america. Because science is hard, and nobody wants to really teach anything with any teeth.
Under you definition, there is no such thing as an unnatural process, making the distinction moot.
That is the point you are trying to make, but it opens huge cans of worms. Carried to its full and logical conclusion, nothing unnatural exists, thus something clearly artificial, like a computer system, is a "natural phenomenon."
The imposition of the implied distinction betwee natural (if left alone) and unnatural (influenced directly by the actions of another agency) are not mine, but are products of human cognition, intended to deal with this cognitative foulup.
You are assuming that the drag would be constant, which would make it easy to correct for.
A gas disc on the ecliptic would be like firing a bullet through may layers of seperated tissue paper. The tissue represents almost no resistance to the bullet, but after repeated penetrations, the effect is cumulative.
This is because few satelites live in the ecliptic plane of earth's rotation. Only geosyncronous satelites do that. Most satelites are not geosyncronous, and would regularly cross the gas disc. This means the resistance supplied by the gas is intermittent, not constant.
This kind of argument is semantically identical to saying the evolution of the wolf into the chihuaha is perfectly natural.
While the mechanism is natural, the outcome is not. The host has no reproductive advantage from being infected with the parasite, and instead suffers extreme (up to 90% mortality of offspring in infected male to uninfected female pairings) reproductive deficits, coupled with direct stimulation and parasite supplied biochemistry to procreate differently.
The mechanism for parthenogenesis in these organisms comes directly from the parasite.
Analogously, this would be like asserting that artificial insemination performed by humans is a perfectly natural reproductive strategy, when coupled with routine castration in farm animals. Nevermind that the pressures imposed on said animals are in no fashion "natural", and result in individuals that outside of that practice, would be unable to sustain themselves due to being evolutionarily unfit.
The parent said that such species are dominated by more aggressively replicating species. This is conserved in both models; cattle and social insects.
The cattle are dominated by the meddling humans, and the insects are dominated by biochemically meddling protozoans.
"Almost immediately" in what respect? That the orbit of the cloud is very unstable, and begins spiraling in immediately, or that it is fired directly at the earth?
See, as deorbiting objects descend the gravity well, they speed up and compress. Especially gasses.
Widespread deployment of such a tech would result in the formation of a thin planetary ring of vapor. Rotational effects would channel the gasses into the ecliptic plane of earth's rotation, where slow deorbiting would compress the gasses as they spiral inward. This would have some nasty effects over time for space missions and for satelites that have to pass through the gas.
Granted, this would take *a lot* of gas up there... but if this becomes the method du jour of deorbiting satelites, and the rate of sat deployment continues to rise as it has due to demand, we could well see it happen in 200 years.
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I chose the 1950s saccharine theme for the comedic value.
The reason that Mrs. Smith takes the job is immaterial. That she takes the job, and her peers also take jobs, disturbs the location of thbe median income bracket, pushing it away from the low income bracket, and causing increased poverty.
This is a fallacy. Let me help you.
(Cue cheesy 1950s documentary music.)
Mr. And Mrs. Smith live in a quiet suburban neighborhood. Mr. Smith has a decent job. Nothing special, Bob Smith just runs a computerized screw press. Mrs. Smith stays at home, watching and caring for their lovely 3 year old daughter Tiffany.
As little Tiffany grew up, she started primary school, leaving Mrs. Smith with a great deal of unused time on her hands, and a rising food bill for their growing daughter.
One day, Mrs. Smith approached Mr. Smith about the prospects of taking on a part time job. She'd still be home in time to see their daughter Tiffany come home from school, and to ensure that all the domestic chores were done, and the family would get a little spending money they could use to go on a family vacation some time. Afterall, that's what the Jones family had done.
Little did Mr and Mrs smith realize, but as the amount of consumer buying power of the median household increases, so too does the cost of various consumer products, due to the intrinsic nature of the lw of supply and demand.
Here we see a simple graph, depicting the willingness to spend, intersecting the willingness of a merchant to sell.
As you can clearly see, that as Mr and Mrs smith's financial fortunes improve, their willingness to spend extra on products they routinely buy increases. The natural market reaction to this event, is the inevitable adjusted price offered by merchants.
Now, Mr. And Mrs. Smith are both required to work. Mr. Smith still works as a screw machine operator, and Mrs. Smith still works part time at the local nursing home. But, now that they are both working, the market has naturally taken advantage of their increased buying power. Now instead of Mrs. Smith working just to help improve their quaity of life, she has to work just to make sure the two of them can pay their bills each month.
Seeing that the two of them are still struggling financially due to increased costs of living, Mr Smith suggests that Mrs. Smith switch to a full time occupation...
Now, dear viewers.. where do you suppose this will lead?
In just 5 years time, Mr and Mrs smith will both be working full time jobs to purchase the same products they have always purchased, and which they were previously purchasing on only a single breadwinning paycheck just 10 years earlier.
Working a second job, or sending a spouse to work only improves your financial situation in the short term, unless the practice is significantly undesirable that the pactice does not become mainstream.
Market forces directly mirror, and correlate with the statistical mean of consumer spending and buying power. The very wealthy occupy only a very tiny section of the population distribution; see?
As such, the very wealthy never truly experience the dramatic decline in their buying power as a result of a financial practice becoming a mainstream idea. Their contribution to the greater statistical game is miniscule, compared to the market forces at work in the median income bracket.
As a result of Mr. And Mrs. Smith, and their neighbors, the Jones family, the Applebaum family across town, who were previously just barely getting by on Mr. Applebaum's miniscule pay as a waiter at a roadside cafe, are now deeply stricken with povery, as the prices of common and vital consumer goods quickly exceeds their ability to purchase.
What is a "thriving economy" you ask?
A thriving economy is one where products are highly available, and merchants feel a modest degree of surety that they will continue to make profits and growth of their business investments. As such, a "thriving economy" is one in which Mr and Mrs Smith, representatives of the majority of the median income bracket, have their income presicely balanced by a highly lucrative and market accepted pricing structure.
The attempts of Mr and Mrs Smith to climb the ladder of affluence has instead only shifted the status quo, plunging other families into poverty,
Me? I like to dabble in cookery, and had a hypothetical conversation with my sister concerning weed.
What I would place as a series of fake products for people to "want"?
"Stoner Joe's Finger Lickin' Cickin!"
Featuring a an "herb roasted" rotissery chicken, slathered in premium pot resin, and speckled with crushed thyme, rosemary, and lemon pepper.
And "Mary Jane's olde fashioned honey", a 50-50 mix of cannabis resin and pure honey, from bees exclusively fed on marijuana flowers. (100% organic, pesticide free!)
That kind of thing.
Put a disclaimer on the bottom saying that due to current and regressive legislation and practices by the united states of america, these fine products are currently unavailable, but please "want" them anyway, to get the word out.
LOL
Geoshities was useful for storing images, back when the net was young.
I used to use it in the same way I use photobucket today, up until they started acting like babies about hotlinked images.
Imagine for a moment, the profoundly funny and silly trends that could run from clicking "want" on simple, stark statements, like:
Privacy
Responsibility in Industry and Politics
Or even just silly stuff, "celebrities eating hotdogs"
Be sure to "want" penis enlargement *and* breast augmentation clinics as well.
Throw in some prophalactic medication manufacturers for good measure.
That isn't how I interpereted that... more, "no, they don't share the same 3 million. They EACH get 3 million."
See for instance the "50k split between 800 artists" post.
So, you should "want" images of your "dislike" button!
2 birds, one stone!
Yes, but it does so much more clearly!
How does the author of this article expect us to know that the pediatric doctors are properly setting the limits on television like they do for alcohol, if they don't properly punctuate their sentences!?
We might get the mistaken idea that they are regulating the placement of alcohol on top of televisions, or some similarly silly miscarriage of authority!
Clear and proper English is a necessity to proper communication!
No, that's not it.
See, congress knows who pays their bills, so to speak. Services like Pandora eliminate the fiction that the media companies are "needed". Without the sweet employment deals offered by big industries, like big media, the congress critters see famine on the horizon.
Services like pandora threaten their livelihoods by proxy.
Expect draconian enforcement efforts to regulate them out of the market.
Shit nigga! Everyone know that fake rappa T-winky ain't no blood! Nigga cant decide if he wearin' red or blue! Sheet!
I hear he mean deala though. Nigga's got more crack in that bag than oprah got on her ass!
A comma, a comma, my kingdom for a comma!
(Sentence makes perfect sense after properly escaping the dependent clause.)
... how is this semantically different from the "X with a digital clock!" And "X with a built in radio!" That happened in the 70s and 80s?
Didn't it get shown that simply adding (random X) to (Known product Y) does not constitute a new invention?
No silly!
Waste heat from high end laptops is an untapped market alright, but NOT for thermal insulation!
Imagine... (glitterly cliche disolve effect)
Are you a college student burdened by oppressive student loans that prevent you from owning even a simple microwave?
Do you own a cheap knockoff PC instead of an expensive macbook pro, like the rich kids in the fraternity?
Do you subsist on hotdogs, ramen, and undrinkable beer? (Camera pans to a stack of crushed old milkwakee cans.)
Well does cyber solutions (a limited liability corporation) have the product for you!
Introducing, the College Convector!
Using state of the art convenction oven technology in conjunction with the crotch roasting thermal exhaust from your no-name ball blistering and clearly non-apple laptop, the College Convector turns making pizza in the dormroom from a wild fantasy into a funfilled reality!
Imagine, using your Countless hours playing World of Warcraft to perform actually productive activities!
Like: Cooking a pizza, Making cookies, Making brownies, roasting a chicken, and SO MUCH MORE!
For only 3 easy payments of $29.95, Cyber Solutions will send you not only the College Convector, but also our patented water-chilled beef coozie, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Act now, supplies are running out!
Barring a major innovation in battery (or compact power generation) technology, this "dream laptop" can never exist.
Add to that, very efficient cooling/very efficient semiconductor tech.
The "lots of power" you want comes at a cost of increased power consumption. Increased power consumption means "very heavy battery", and "roasts your balls like christmas chestnuts on a campfire."
You need a very, very dense energy storage/generator that is also lightweight, and very efrficient cooling to remove the thermal exhaust of that power use.
There is research being done on all the needed areas, but it will be some time before such a creatue can exist; and by that time, your needs will have grown anyway.
That makes sense...
I'd hold off on speculation until after forensic evaluation of the failed component (if it doesn't burn up in re-entry), and failure data sent from the vehicle. All we know for sure is that the safety kicked in, and the engine shut down.
I would expect a full inquiry as to why this happened. That's all.
*shrug*
If the ascent vector isn't correct, (which it wasn't, due to the failure), then the entry vector for the capsule will be different from the one planned. This is the likely cause of the orbcom deployment snafu.
It's basic geometry. The angle changed, so the insertion point changed. (The tangent intersection of the satelite orbit relative to the ascent vector) That's why the sat isn't in the proper place.
This is very true, but if you've ever worked in aerospace, you surely know about "tribal knowledge."
SpaceX would have started with a clean slate in that department, and without NASA's tribal knowledge... let's just say that I am very pleased with their performance.
I don't have access to the falcon 9's engineering data, so I can't comment definitively; take with copious salt.
A rocket engine is basically a fuel supply line coming from some fuel tanks, being injected under pressure into the reaction chamber, nestled inside the burn cone.
A failsafe system would clamp down fuel and oxidizer supplies at multiple points along the supply to ensure that neither reaches the reaction vessel in the event of a flow, pressure, or reaction anomaly. Such systems would need to be very robust, as a catastrophic failure of the reaction chamber wuld tend to destroy hydraulic lines and cause all manner of hell in there.
As such, I would expect such a system to be very "spring loaded" and "unpowered", if not activated by anomalous conditions directly. (Pressure drops, failsafe system deploys from pressure change as a purely mechanical safegard.)
The engine failure of the falcon 9 engine #1 is not really a bad thing. It served to prove the reliability of the shutoff system, and flight control hardware.
Considering the horrendous failure rate of NASA's early engines, (the kind that explode spectacularly), this managed failure situation is very promising.
Rest assured, there will likely be a strong inquiry concerning the manufacture and design of the engine fairing that failed, causing the pressure drop, and engine shutdown.
Managed failures like this one don't speak poorly of spacex. On the contrary. They show spacex planned ahead, and the failsafes they built actually work.
I learned more 'about' computers in gradeschool than I did in highschool. Our computer science teacher actually tried to explain what the actual parts of the computer were, and how they worked. This was back in the very early 90s, and most of the hardware in the labs were macintosh or apple IIe or IIgs.
By the time I hit middleschool, his curriculum had been curtailed down to essentially teaching word processing.
By highschool, it was a total joke, focused around... yet more word processing.
Not a single programming class. Not a single computer hardware class. Not a single class on the abstracted workings of computers.
Yay team america. Because science is hard, and nobody wants to really teach anything with any teeth.
Under you definition, there is no such thing as an unnatural process, making the distinction moot.
That is the point you are trying to make, but it opens huge cans of worms. Carried to its full and logical conclusion, nothing unnatural exists, thus something clearly artificial, like a computer system, is a "natural phenomenon."
The imposition of the implied distinction betwee natural (if left alone) and unnatural (influenced directly by the actions of another agency) are not mine, but are products of human cognition, intended to deal with this cognitative foulup.
You are assuming that the drag would be constant, which would make it easy to correct for.
A gas disc on the ecliptic would be like firing a bullet through may layers of seperated tissue paper. The tissue represents almost no resistance to the bullet, but after repeated penetrations, the effect is cumulative.
This is because few satelites live in the ecliptic plane of earth's rotation. Only geosyncronous satelites do that. Most satelites are not geosyncronous, and would regularly cross the gas disc. This means the resistance supplied by the gas is intermittent, not constant.
This kind of argument is semantically identical to saying the evolution of the wolf into the chihuaha is perfectly natural.
While the mechanism is natural, the outcome is not. The host has no reproductive advantage from being infected with the parasite, and instead suffers extreme (up to 90% mortality of offspring in infected male to uninfected female pairings) reproductive deficits, coupled with direct stimulation and parasite supplied biochemistry to procreate differently.
The mechanism for parthenogenesis in these organisms comes directly from the parasite.
Analogously, this would be like asserting that artificial insemination performed by humans is a perfectly natural reproductive strategy, when coupled with routine castration in farm animals. Nevermind that the pressures imposed on said animals are in no fashion "natural", and result in individuals that outside of that practice, would be unable to sustain themselves due to being evolutionarily unfit.
The parent said that such species are dominated by more aggressively replicating species. This is conserved in both models; cattle and social insects.
The cattle are dominated by the meddling humans, and the insects are dominated by biochemically meddling protozoans.
"Almost immediately" in what respect? That the orbit of the cloud is very unstable, and begins spiraling in immediately, or that it is fired directly at the earth?
See, as deorbiting objects descend the gravity well, they speed up and compress. Especially gasses.
Widespread deployment of such a tech would result in the formation of a thin planetary ring of vapor. Rotational effects would channel the gasses into the ecliptic plane of earth's rotation, where slow deorbiting would compress the gasses as they spiral inward. This would have some nasty effects over time for space missions and for satelites that have to pass through the gas.
Granted, this would take *a lot* of gas up there... but if this becomes the method du jour of deorbiting satelites, and the rate of sat deployment continues to rise as it has due to demand, we could well see it happen in 200 years.