That's food poisoning, and I kid you not I have gotten food poisoning twice from McDonalds (both times in the USA).
Maybe you did and maybe you didn't; a lot of "food poisoning" type bacteria have fairly lengthy incubation times. People always assume it was the last meal they ate but often it was really the meal before or even something from the day before.
Musicians only get paid when the music makes a profit. Since his music on an anti-piracy promo will never be "sold" and thus never make a profit, he will never get paid.
You totally missed even the summary: he made it for a one-time anti-piracy promo which was not being sold and for which he didn't expect to be paid BUT he found it on a DVD which *was* being sold.
FOI requests take time and have to be for something specific. You can't ask for 'what's the governor up to today?' So only after the dealmaking has been done can you get at documentation about the process. By that time, it's a done deal and the parties involved can present a complete picture of what the compromise was and how it was reached. If a political leader is making deals that even after the fact are something that they should be attacked for, why would you want to hide it?
water, which will then be recycled to drink (probably along with their urine and humidity from sweat). That should also answer the question of why it isn't used on earth
Yes, it is; you just don't take a long enough view of the recycling system.
On the question about contamination of possible life on mars... Said absolutely nothing
Because the person who asked it watched a few too many "prime directive" themed episodes on Star Trek. Seriously, are we who are stuck on just one dirtball deathtrap planet worried at this point about this? If there were microbes on Mars, would they ever be anything other than microbes given the Mars environment? If the solar system has been here billions of years already and your species is still at the microbe level, sorry, evolution has passed you by.
What's amazing in modern society is how so many non-scientists (mainly religious fundamentalists of different sects) think evolution is very much up for debate while problems in physics are totally solved when it's the other way around. I was confronted once by an anti-evolution person who thought exactly how gravity works was a long ago solved case but evolution was some new wacky baseless idea being forced on gullible unbelievers.
Yeah, you can ask anybody who studied antique history. We all know that the romans grew wine in England
In one of the funnier episodes of the English comedy show "Chef" the main character had to bring ingredients native to his home country to an international cooking contest in France and one thing he needed was wine.
I'd rather have it the other way around; how do I vote to get a game OFF Steam? I bought a game on retail DVD and missed the fine print on the spine that said Steam was required. The miserable thing had to go through a huge download despite the DVD and it always wants to be connected to log in to the Steam account to play in single player mode. Highly irritating!
Part ownership, even a small percentage, is very real. There are probably two or more partners who own the trendy cofffee shop in the artsy neighborhood from which you anonymously posted that drivel.
Anarchy is the least stable form of government. As soon as one person says "Hey, let's...(x,y.z)" and some others say "OK", it's broken; there is now a leader and followers.
Ha, I'd like to hear commentary on the nobility of scientific experiments if/when China does this. I'm sure we would have no problem with them bursting nukes over our heads and knocking out our satellites (oops!)
The previous experiment found out about the harmful side effects 50+ years prior so you think the only reason anyone would complain about worldwide radiation today is because of petty nationalism?
it was supposed to help US scientists and the military understand how the Soviets might try to stop incoming nuclear missiles. What it actually did was
Thanks for the loaded language; actually, it probably did both. It's nice that now when we know about all the negative effects so we can peer down our nose at the evil scientist puppets of the military but they really didn't know back then. That's why it's called an "experiment".
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion
Truly, I'm happy for you that you've never had to meet any actors. 99% are beautiful, self absorbed, and utterly naive. Almost certainly she took Tommy's assertions about Scientology at face value and didn't notice the down side for years.
I thought that this is what the Free Market is all about
There are always comments like this whenever articles about trade problems come up and I can never tell whether they're honestly in the dark about how free trade and markets work or if they're just snarky trolls.
The second sentence of the article clearly states that the Chinese government is buying up and stockpiling the material in question. Sometimes it's rare earths, sometimes some other material. Whatever the commodity, the definition of free market operations is that individual businesses buy and sell in competition with each other, When governments get involved then it stops being a free market to one degree or another .
Sure, the USA hardly has a model free market system due to regulatory oversight, taxation, subsidies, etc, but it is *relatively* free in comparison. The US government doesn't stockpile much and when it does, it's a rare case that it's trying to actively influence international markets. Mainly the US government just messes around with protectionist tarriffs with the international market and various subsidies for the domestic market but outright stockpiling to influence markets almost never happens. This stockpiling operation by the Chinese government is an extremely "up yours" move and thus all the fuss.
Meanwhile, if an individual non-governmental player decides to stockpile a resource as a competitive strategy against other players, that would be a free market action. Perhaps it's impossible to have free market operations in a country such as China where the government takes such a active role but that's a different problem. It's not a cause to make a snide remark about free markets.
You've correctly identified this as a problem in game theory. Alas, it is the same as the prisoner's dilemma. If you convince everyone else to slack and then you actually work, you are guaranteed to be the overperformer and get the raise/bonus. So everyone ends up promising to slack while working to try to stab the others in the back. This is also why every time Opec gets together to fix oil prices it never lasts more than a year.
Of course he's going to say that, he's the CEO and he's expected to say that.
A good CEO in this situation would say rah-rah things like "Our team has great people working hard on our brilliant strategy to return to market dominance" or somesuch. Yes, a CEO should be eyeing a pie the sky but the given quote is head in the sand.
Is the continued commitment to solid fuel rockets. I feel it is very dangerous to put humans on anything that has solid rocket(s), even if they're boosters.
Your comment is strong evidence that everything is relative. The original Orion design called for a nuclear bomb powered spacecraft. Now, what were you saying about solid rocket fuel?
This is a massive gift to the insurance industry that is responsible for this mess to begin with
The insurance industry would MUCH rather tier your premiums to your demographic's risk profile and not have to cover you for pre-existing conditions (because pre-existing conditions by definition have no risk; they are a sure thing). The only reason the insurers participated was be avoid for as long as possible being eaten wholesale via completely nationalized healthcare.
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Read the sequence of events; he and his co-worker are close.
That's food poisoning, and I kid you not I have gotten food poisoning twice from McDonalds (both times in the USA).
Maybe you did and maybe you didn't; a lot of "food poisoning" type bacteria have fairly lengthy incubation times. People always assume it was the last meal they ate but often it was really the meal before or even something from the day before.
Musicians only get paid when the music makes a profit. Since his music on an anti-piracy promo will never be "sold" and thus never make a profit, he will never get paid.
You totally missed even the summary: he made it for a one-time anti-piracy promo which was not being sold and for which he didn't expect to be paid BUT he found it on a DVD which *was* being sold.
FOI requests take time and have to be for something specific. You can't ask for 'what's the governor up to today?' So only after the dealmaking has been done can you get at documentation about the process. By that time, it's a done deal and the parties involved can present a complete picture of what the compromise was and how it was reached. If a political leader is making deals that even after the fact are something that they should be attacked for, why would you want to hide it?
This is about a commercial enterprise so your rant about government spending on it doesn't really make any sense at all.
water, which will then be recycled to drink (probably along with their urine and humidity from sweat). That should also answer the question of why it isn't used on earth
Yes, it is; you just don't take a long enough view of the recycling system.
On the question about contamination of possible life on mars... Said absolutely nothing
Because the person who asked it watched a few too many "prime directive" themed episodes on Star Trek. Seriously, are we who are stuck on just one dirtball deathtrap planet worried at this point about this? If there were microbes on Mars, would they ever be anything other than microbes given the Mars environment? If the solar system has been here billions of years already and your species is still at the microbe level, sorry, evolution has passed you by.
What's amazing in modern society is how so many non-scientists (mainly religious fundamentalists of different sects) think evolution is very much up for debate while problems in physics are totally solved when it's the other way around. I was confronted once by an anti-evolution person who thought exactly how gravity works was a long ago solved case but evolution was some new wacky baseless idea being forced on gullible unbelievers.
Did you even read the paper?
Noooooo! Cutting down trees exacerbates the problem! STOP reading the paper!!!
Yeah, you can ask anybody who studied antique history. We all know that the romans grew wine in England
In one of the funnier episodes of the English comedy show "Chef" the main character had to bring ingredients native to his home country to an international cooking contest in France and one thing he needed was wine.
I'd rather have it the other way around; how do I vote to get a game OFF Steam? I bought a game on retail DVD and missed the fine print on the spine that said Steam was required. The miserable thing had to go through a huge download despite the DVD and it always wants to be connected to log in to the Steam account to play in single player mode. Highly irritating!
Sounds like BMW owners are going to make a run on Pep Boys to get "the club".
And that is a problem, why? Just like in the flash crash, some people lost money and some people got big deals.
No, they don't. The sellers will notice the price dip and cancel all the sales with the excuse of it being a mistake.
Part ownership, even a small percentage, is very real. There are probably two or more partners who own the trendy cofffee shop in the artsy neighborhood from which you anonymously posted that drivel.
Anarchy is the least stable form of government. As soon as one person says "Hey, let's...(x,y.z)" and some others say "OK", it's broken; there is now a leader and followers.
Ha, I'd like to hear commentary on the nobility of scientific experiments if/when China does this. I'm sure we would have no problem with them bursting nukes over our heads and knocking out our satellites (oops!)
The previous experiment found out about the harmful side effects 50+ years prior so you think the only reason anyone would complain about worldwide radiation today is because of petty nationalism?
it was supposed to help US scientists and the military understand how the Soviets might try to stop incoming nuclear missiles. What it actually did was
Thanks for the loaded language; actually, it probably did both. It's nice that now when we know about all the negative effects so we can peer down our nose at the evil scientist puppets of the military but they really didn't know back then. That's why it's called an "experiment".
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion
Truly, I'm happy for you that you've never had to meet any actors. 99% are beautiful, self absorbed, and utterly naive. Almost certainly she took Tommy's assertions about Scientology at face value and didn't notice the down side for years.
I thought that this is what the Free Market is all about
There are always comments like this whenever articles about trade problems come up and I can never tell whether they're honestly in the dark about how free trade and markets work or if they're just snarky trolls.
The second sentence of the article clearly states that the Chinese government is buying up and stockpiling the material in question. Sometimes it's rare earths, sometimes some other material. Whatever the commodity, the definition of free market operations is that individual businesses buy and sell in competition with each other, When governments get involved then it stops being a free market to one degree or another .
Sure, the USA hardly has a model free market system due to regulatory oversight, taxation, subsidies, etc, but it is *relatively* free in comparison. The US government doesn't stockpile much and when it does, it's a rare case that it's trying to actively influence international markets. Mainly the US government just messes around with protectionist tarriffs with the international market and various subsidies for the domestic market but outright stockpiling to influence markets almost never happens. This stockpiling operation by the Chinese government is an extremely "up yours" move and thus all the fuss.
Meanwhile, if an individual non-governmental player decides to stockpile a resource as a competitive strategy against other players, that would be a free market action. Perhaps it's impossible to have free market operations in a country such as China where the government takes such a active role but that's a different problem. It's not a cause to make a snide remark about free markets.
You've correctly identified this as a problem in game theory. Alas, it is the same as the prisoner's dilemma. If you convince everyone else to slack and then you actually work, you are guaranteed to be the overperformer and get the raise/bonus. So everyone ends up promising to slack while working to try to stab the others in the back. This is also why every time Opec gets together to fix oil prices it never lasts more than a year.
Of course he's going to say that, he's the CEO and he's expected to say that.
A good CEO in this situation would say rah-rah things like "Our team has great people working hard on our brilliant strategy to return to market dominance" or somesuch. Yes, a CEO should be eyeing a pie the sky but the given quote is head in the sand.
I was reminded of the President saying the private sector is doing fine.
If we want to be pedantic,
You must be new here; that's not allowed.
Nor is sarcasm.
Is the continued commitment to solid fuel rockets. I feel it is very dangerous to put humans on anything that has solid rocket(s), even if they're boosters.
Your comment is strong evidence that everything is relative. The original Orion design called for a nuclear bomb powered spacecraft. Now, what were you saying about solid rocket fuel?
This is a massive gift to the insurance industry that is responsible for this mess to begin with
The insurance industry would MUCH rather tier your premiums to your demographic's risk profile and not have to cover you for pre-existing conditions (because pre-existing conditions by definition have no risk; they are a sure thing). The only reason the insurers participated was be avoid for as long as possible being eaten wholesale via completely nationalized healthcare.