It really isn't immaterial. Treating traffic flow as a fluid dynamics problem, it becomes apparent that reducing the flow of traffic will untangle traffic snarls, improving the flow. Basically, the more cars try to jam into a bottleneck, the slower traffic becomes, the slower it becomes, the worse the bottleneck becomes, untill traffic comes to a standstill with people still trying to jam themselves in. Sort of like early in rush hour, traffic flow is generally very heavy, but quick. Somebody having to hit their brakes, due to tailgating, being cut off, or not let into a lane causes small ripples of congestion which add up to the point that traffic flow comes to a standstill or at least a major slowdown. Appropriately reducing traffic flow at key points could eliminate or at least reduce congestion, without the costs (financial, social and environmental) of adding more lanes of concrete.
Although teaching people how to drive and to actually use lanes appropriately would probably do more than any technological gizmo that we could create at this point.
I suppose another factor is they go off BMI in the study, which is a weight/height ratio. Well muscled people can have a high BMI and still have low body fat. A 6 foot tall person weighing in at 225 would have a BMI in the "obese" range. It is feasable for this to be a very ripped bodybuilder with a body fat of less than 10% (although being that muscled could lead to its own cardiovascular problems.)
However, I suppose a lot of very athletic people would fall in the "overweight" range even if they do not have a high body fat content. To be overweight according to BMI at 6'0" is only 185 pounds, which isn't all that much for an active person who does a moderate amount of weightlifting.
Caution about this statement: being OBESE gives you a greater chance of having diseases which lead to a higher mortality rate (I.E. shorter life.) According to the article, moderately OVERWEIGHT people actually have a LOWER mortality rate than people in the "ideal weight" category as was previously accepted. Overweight and obese are very different classifications.
Actually, according to the article, slightly "overweight" people actually have a lower mortality rate (read as: they live longer) than people in the "ideal weight" category. This actually turns conventional thinking about health on it's head. Or rather it might make the "ideal weight" a little heavier than has been pushed.
Yes, I did simplify things. However the deficit is less than 10% of the federal budget. A value of about half the current deficit is in interest payments on the debt, the vast majority of which is to US citizens and corporations in the form of interest payments on government bonds, so this money comes back to the US.
That 10% won't really change the fact that your calling of shenannigans was unjustified. I just showed it isn't that "you'd have to die by age 10 for the math to work out" so much as a person would have to work for 10 years worth of seconds in their life to make the 1 second/person analogy work out, simply because of a coincidence of current population size.
And the government does still spend while individuals were out of work, however that just means that you get taxed a little higher when you are working, as though you worked the 299,520,000 second career that I quoted. Maybe you won't retire at 56 like my estimate assumed. Maybe you work more than 40 hours a week. Maybe your wife will be a homemaker and not be paid a taxable wage or salary for the rest of her life. But this works out because the whole thing is based on averages anyways. And it doesn't even matter how the taxes are split up: social security, Fed, State, sales tax, property tax, payments on fines, etc etc etc, because what goes into the government comes out, within the 10% margin of debt that we currently have. And I don't think that the 10% of a second will make that much difference.
I was just admiring that it was pretty neat that the math worked out this close. In China, you wouldn't have to pull the career thing, wince the 2-3 billion life expectancy that you quoted WOULD be 1 second per person. Except then you would have to work every single second that you are alive.
Actually, it could make sense. Start by assuming that all taxes collected are income taxes:
Assume that the average American starts working at 16 and retires at 55. This leaves 39 years of working. We can round up to 40 years of working years.
with an average of 40 hours wourked out of every 168 hours in a week, slightly less than 1 in 4 hours is spent working while employed.
Therefore the average person works for less than ten years of their life, which comes close to the number for how long you said a person would live.
Or to put it a different way: if one were to spend all of their working time meeting new people, they'd only get a second with each person if they were to meet everyone in the US. This doesn't even include the fact that there is a turnover in those that are employeed during the time that you work.
It is just by a fluke of population size that it works out to about one second. Whether or not the taxes paid out are in the form of income tax, sales tax or property tax really shouldn't matter, as in general a person will pay all of these taxes combined in a manner relative to the amount of money that they make. While there will be some outliers that end up with a much different distribution of tax structure, we're talking about the average person here.
To sum up a career in number of seconds: 60seconds/minute * 60minutes/hour * (40hours/workweek) * 52weeks/year * 40 years/career= 60*60*40*52*40 = 299,520,000 workseconds/career. This is really dang close to the current population of about 295 million people in the united states.
I dunno, I've found that my papers generally turned out much better when I did a rough draft by hand. Actually, following the whole process of outlining, rough draft, correct, re-write, proofread, recorrect actually made the process of writing a good paper easier than just sitting down and typing. Granted it is possible to follow all of these steps on a word processor, but the temptation to just spell check and call it a day becomes too high. A properly designed and thought out paper seems to have a much better chance of beeing readable, succinct and follow a logical pattern.
One problem is that the best teachers are often the best based on how they interact with their students. They take many clues: Visual, audio, nervous movements, eye contact, etc to gauge the students understanding of the material or boredom. This helps a teacher to focus on the material that needs to be presented, as well as add a little flair when needed.
If this wasn't the case, then it would have been trivial to teach by video for a long time with DVD, VHS, or even film reel. It is possible to convey some basic facts, but actual teaching of concepts can be hampered. Teachers may get a little more interactivity over a properly designed network environment than a pre-recorded video, but it would be nothing like sitting in the same room.
While I have bought several RIAA CDs before they started being a royal PITA, since then I have only bought CDs from non-RIAA members. This basically means local bands, plus a few select other outlets. On the plus side I've been listening to a lot of good music lately!
You know why they don't even think of it as a possibility? Because creationism as christianity teaches could not have happened. First of all, the "theories" are based on the simple assumption that the bible is infallible. In fact, the bible is quite fallibe.
Read through Genesis (the first book of the bible, and the one that deals with creation) and tell me in which order did GOD create birds, beast and man? Oh, that's right. The bible contradicts itself. Which mayt be acceptable if you are saying "This is the best available explanation we have right now, but are working on improving it" but not if you are saying "This is the way it is."
You mean the bombardier beetle? Really not much special chemically or physically going on there. Mostly a misinterpretation of the process that is taken to be proof of a high level of complexity. Then asserting that complexity means intelligent design rather than natural selection.
Much like the assertion that "the eye is too complex to have evolved." And then scientists showing that it has happened time and time again across several phyla.
It is broad, but it is what it is. There are basically three ecological classifications of aquatic organisms:
Plankton: Organisms that float around, whose movement is defined by the water currents.
Nekton: Organisms that can swim enough to hold a definate position in a body of water.
Benthos: Organisms that live on the bottom of the body of water.
Many creatures can move between these three classifications at different parts of their lives, such as being planktonic when very small and becoming nektonic when they are big enough to fight the currents. Or living their lives as Benthic and producing planktonic offspring.
I guess there are other environmental classifications, but these are not strictly aquatic:
Littoral: living on the boundary between land and a body of water (beach, shoreline, etc)
And... something I can't remember for organisms that primarilly float on the top of the water (some seaweeds, water striders, ducks...) I'd have to find my limnology book for this one.
Actually, most jellyfish really aren't strong enough to actually fight the current. They can move around a little bit as in search of prey, but their overall movement is defined by the currents in which they reside. Thus they are planktonic.
I think it's related to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." I would guess that in the time the constitution was penned, privacy was pretty much taken for granted and the only part of it that had to be elucidated was in the "unlawful search and seizure" realm.
So it is not in the Bill of Rights, but maybe it is something that is high time that we have our privacy rights actually legally spelled out.
Thankfully I'm going to the side bar at my favorite bar tonight. Notice the first beer they have on tap.
God bless Milwaukee. And God bless the Landmark. Check the arcade... that's right, five pinball machines. That's not even counting the Playboy pinball in the back bar. And four REAL dart boards (even though the chalkboards for keeping score kinda don't work very well.)
And then there's the regulars who hang out there: inspiration for my favorite toast: "to good friends, and bad influences."
I think it's currently done by Pabst. Still tastes the same. Wow. Looking at that list: Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz, Stroh's, Old Milwaukee. Oooh... Schaefer Beer. Wow. Pabst is like liquid punk rock. Now if they would pick up Huber...
That's cool. I remember some random video taken off of a webcam of some scantilly clad girl dancing in her dormroom for her boyfriend. I knew people from three different schools that swore up and down that she was from their school. And none of the dorms from those schools really looked like hers.
I personally prefer many of the super bargain beers to Bud: Pabst, Blatz, etc. And I really prefer a good beer. A good nut brown, stout or IPA. On special Occasions Delerium Tremens follwed up by a good Raspberry Lambic. Normally I just go with Vodka, though. The sugars in beer can leave me feeling really bad (I think my body is overly sensitive to sugars and refined starches in general.)
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It really isn't immaterial. Treating traffic flow as a fluid dynamics problem, it becomes apparent that reducing the flow of traffic will untangle traffic snarls, improving the flow. Basically, the more cars try to jam into a bottleneck, the slower traffic becomes, the slower it becomes, the worse the bottleneck becomes, untill traffic comes to a standstill with people still trying to jam themselves in. Sort of like early in rush hour, traffic flow is generally very heavy, but quick. Somebody having to hit their brakes, due to tailgating, being cut off, or not let into a lane causes small ripples of congestion which add up to the point that traffic flow comes to a standstill or at least a major slowdown. Appropriately reducing traffic flow at key points could eliminate or at least reduce congestion, without the costs (financial, social and environmental) of adding more lanes of concrete.
Although teaching people how to drive and to actually use lanes appropriately would probably do more than any technological gizmo that we could create at this point.
I suppose another factor is they go off BMI in the study, which is a weight/height ratio. Well muscled people can have a high BMI and still have low body fat. A 6 foot tall person weighing in at 225 would have a BMI in the "obese" range. It is feasable for this to be a very ripped bodybuilder with a body fat of less than 10% (although being that muscled could lead to its own cardiovascular problems.)
However, I suppose a lot of very athletic people would fall in the "overweight" range even if they do not have a high body fat content. To be overweight according to BMI at 6'0" is only 185 pounds, which isn't all that much for an active person who does a moderate amount of weightlifting.
Caution about this statement: being OBESE gives you a greater chance of having diseases which lead to a higher mortality rate (I.E. shorter life.) According to the article, moderately OVERWEIGHT people actually have a LOWER mortality rate than people in the "ideal weight" category as was previously accepted. Overweight and obese are very different classifications.
Actually, according to the article, slightly "overweight" people actually have a lower mortality rate (read as: they live longer) than people in the "ideal weight" category. This actually turns conventional thinking about health on it's head. Or rather it might make the "ideal weight" a little heavier than has been pushed.
How long would your standard USB port last with a device being plugged in every what... 30 seconds?
The circuit board is the part that usually fails first on modern drives. Perfectly valid spot to cool.
Yes, I did simplify things. However the deficit is less than 10% of the federal budget. A value of about half the current deficit is in interest payments on the debt, the vast majority of which is to US citizens and corporations in the form of interest payments on government bonds, so this money comes back to the US.
That 10% won't really change the fact that your calling of shenannigans was unjustified. I just showed it isn't that "you'd have to die by age 10 for the math to work out" so much as a person would have to work for 10 years worth of seconds in their life to make the 1 second/person analogy work out, simply because of a coincidence of current population size.
And the government does still spend while individuals were out of work, however that just means that you get taxed a little higher when you are working, as though you worked the 299,520,000 second career that I quoted. Maybe you won't retire at 56 like my estimate assumed. Maybe you work more than 40 hours a week. Maybe your wife will be a homemaker and not be paid a taxable wage or salary for the rest of her life. But this works out because the whole thing is based on averages anyways. And it doesn't even matter how the taxes are split up: social security, Fed, State, sales tax, property tax, payments on fines, etc etc etc, because what goes into the government comes out, within the 10% margin of debt that we currently have. And I don't think that the 10% of a second will make that much difference.
I was just admiring that it was pretty neat that the math worked out this close. In China, you wouldn't have to pull the career thing, wince the 2-3 billion life expectancy that you quoted WOULD be 1 second per person. Except then you would have to work every single second that you are alive.
Actually, it could make sense. Start by assuming that all taxes collected are income taxes:
Assume that the average American starts working at 16 and retires at 55. This leaves 39 years of working. We can round up to 40 years of working years.
with an average of 40 hours wourked out of every 168 hours in a week, slightly less than 1 in 4 hours is spent working while employed.
Therefore the average person works for less than ten years of their life, which comes close to the number for how long you said a person would live.
Or to put it a different way: if one were to spend all of their working time meeting new people, they'd only get a second with each person if they were to meet everyone in the US. This doesn't even include the fact that there is a turnover in those that are employeed during the time that you work.
It is just by a fluke of population size that it works out to about one second. Whether or not the taxes paid out are in the form of income tax, sales tax or property tax really shouldn't matter, as in general a person will pay all of these taxes combined in a manner relative to the amount of money that they make. While there will be some outliers that end up with a much different distribution of tax structure, we're talking about the average person here.
To sum up a career in number of seconds: 60seconds/minute * 60minutes/hour * (40hours/workweek) * 52weeks/year * 40 years/career= 60*60*40*52*40 = 299,520,000 workseconds/career. This is really dang close to the current population of about 295 million people in the united states.
I dunno, I've found that my papers generally turned out much better when I did a rough draft by hand. Actually, following the whole process of outlining, rough draft, correct, re-write, proofread, recorrect actually made the process of writing a good paper easier than just sitting down and typing. Granted it is possible to follow all of these steps on a word processor, but the temptation to just spell check and call it a day becomes too high. A properly designed and thought out paper seems to have a much better chance of beeing readable, succinct and follow a logical pattern.
One problem is that the best teachers are often the best based on how they interact with their students. They take many clues: Visual, audio, nervous movements, eye contact, etc to gauge the students understanding of the material or boredom. This helps a teacher to focus on the material that needs to be presented, as well as add a little flair when needed.
If this wasn't the case, then it would have been trivial to teach by video for a long time with DVD, VHS, or even film reel. It is possible to convey some basic facts, but actual teaching of concepts can be hampered. Teachers may get a little more interactivity over a properly designed network environment than a pre-recorded video, but it would be nothing like sitting in the same room.
While I have bought several RIAA CDs before they started being a royal PITA, since then I have only bought CDs from non-RIAA members. This basically means local bands, plus a few select other outlets. On the plus side I've been listening to a lot of good music lately!
Since when has prior art stopped the patent office from granting a patent?
You know why they don't even think of it as a possibility? Because creationism as christianity teaches could not have happened. First of all, the "theories" are based on the simple assumption that the bible is infallible. In fact, the bible is quite fallibe.
Read through Genesis (the first book of the bible, and the one that deals with creation) and tell me in which order did GOD create birds, beast and man? Oh, that's right. The bible contradicts itself. Which mayt be acceptable if you are saying "This is the best available explanation we have right now, but are working on improving it" but not if you are saying "This is the way it is."
You mean the bombardier beetle? Really not much special chemically or physically going on there. Mostly a misinterpretation of the process that is taken to be proof of a high level of complexity. Then asserting that complexity means intelligent design rather than natural selection.
Much like the assertion that "the eye is too complex to have evolved." And then scientists showing that it has happened time and time again across several phyla.
It is broad, but it is what it is. There are basically three ecological classifications of aquatic organisms:
Plankton: Organisms that float around, whose movement is defined by the water currents.
Nekton: Organisms that can swim enough to hold a definate position in a body of water.
Benthos: Organisms that live on the bottom of the body of water.
Many creatures can move between these three classifications at different parts of their lives, such as being planktonic when very small and becoming nektonic when they are big enough to fight the currents. Or living their lives as Benthic and producing planktonic offspring.
I guess there are other environmental classifications, but these are not strictly aquatic:
Littoral: living on the boundary between land and a body of water (beach, shoreline, etc)
And... something I can't remember for organisms that primarilly float on the top of the water (some seaweeds, water striders, ducks...) I'd have to find my limnology book for this one.
Actually, most jellyfish really aren't strong enough to actually fight the current. They can move around a little bit as in search of prey, but their overall movement is defined by the currents in which they reside. Thus they are planktonic.
I think it's related to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." I would guess that in the time the constitution was penned, privacy was pretty much taken for granted and the only part of it that had to be elucidated was in the "unlawful search and seizure" realm.
So it is not in the Bill of Rights, but maybe it is something that is high time that we have our privacy rights actually legally spelled out.
And 73% of statistics are just made up on the spot. 54% of Americans know this.
Thankfully I'm going to the side bar at my favorite bar tonight. Notice the first beer they have on tap.
God bless Milwaukee. And God bless the Landmark. Check the arcade... that's right, five pinball machines. That's not even counting the Playboy pinball in the back bar. And four REAL dart boards (even though the chalkboards for keeping score kinda don't work very well.)
And then there's the regulars who hang out there: inspiration for my favorite toast: "to good friends, and bad influences."
I think it's currently done by Pabst. Still tastes the same. Wow. Looking at that list: Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz, Stroh's, Old Milwaukee. Oooh... Schaefer Beer. Wow. Pabst is like liquid punk rock. Now if they would pick up Huber...
Oh wow... champale.
And can't forget... Colt 45.
That's cool. I remember some random video taken off of a webcam of some scantilly clad girl dancing in her dormroom for her boyfriend. I knew people from three different schools that swore up and down that she was from their school. And none of the dorms from those schools really looked like hers.
We all know that this is the blindfolded pianist. And he has done far more impressive.
Woah. I decided to check out your link, read the lyrics and what not. Then Winamp started playing little house I used to live in.
I know of a few people who are fans of tsing tao, but I personally think it tastes quite rank.
I personally prefer many of the super bargain beers to Bud: Pabst, Blatz, etc. And I really prefer a good beer. A good nut brown, stout or IPA. On special Occasions Delerium Tremens follwed up by a good Raspberry Lambic. Normally I just go with Vodka, though. The sugars in beer can leave me feeling really bad (I think my body is overly sensitive to sugars and refined starches in general.)