A sphere has the minimum surface area for a given volume, therefore the least interaction with its environment. Atoms get knocked off the surface, which changes the total number of atoms in the item, so they are trying to minimize that change over time by creating a sphere.
Actually, not true. It is the number of calories that your body processes, not the number you eat. So, if you eat a lot, but do not process those calories, you will lose weight compared with someone who processes more of what they eat. This level of processing can be genetically based. Thermodynamics really do not apply at the gross level in this case. This is why we have an operation that shortens ones intestines - after the operation, the subjects have to eat large amounts of food since absorption is limited by their shorter intestines.
If you believe that all of their work should be free because it impedes Mankind, will you do the same? Go out, invent something to change the world, write books to enlighten the masses, pull humanity to the next level, ie do whatever you think is missing from the world, and give it to us. Help us out rather than applying your values to others, telling them at what price they should value their works/time. Let's make a difference! Not by trying to take from someone who doesn't want to give, but by doing what we believe is the right thing to do. I look forward to seeing a whole lot of free advancements from the this crowd!
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I get these types of emails all of the time; very frustrating to not know if it is something I really need to do something about or scam. It seems that there is a simple solution, if banks started digitally signing emails they sent to customers, then we would know that it actually came from them. No more worries about redirects, phishing, etc.
Does anyone know of a bank that digitally signs all of its email to its customers? It seems that it would be worthwhile to switch to a bank that does this.
Probably true for all business related emails as well.
Maybe this is how other civilizations communicate, through biologicals on comets rather than what we have been looking for: spaceships, radio waves, etc. Maybe these comets are an answer to Fermi's Paradox?
For a non-US citizen to get the necessary visa to work in the software industry, one has to show that that person possesses unique skills and is therefore not taking jobs from Americans. At most of the software companies at which I worked, we had non-US citizens, and they were always jumping through hoops to get here and then stay here. It seems that companies have found a cheaper way around sponsoring someone: outsourcing. So, now, a US company can get that same foreign workers without the high cost of bringing them here to do the work, as well as the savings on their salaries by paying them local wages. Giving this high cost of entry, it is a logical way for companies to skirt the old problems, even though it bypasses the reason for the laws.
The question is, is this the way we want it to be? If we want to keep the spirit of the laws, we would need to impose the same restriction on outsourcing (show that the work has to be sent somewhere else because it can not be done here). If we decide that protecting jobs is no longer a valid long term strategy, then we should lower the barrier for non-US citizens to actually come here and work. Either way, one of the two means for non-US citizens to work for US-based companies will have to change in order to balance the current disparity.
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A sphere has the minimum surface area for a given volume, therefore the least interaction with its environment. Atoms get knocked off the surface, which changes the total number of atoms in the item, so they are trying to minimize that change over time by creating a sphere.
Actually, not true. It is the number of calories that your body processes, not the number you eat. So, if you eat a lot, but do not process those calories, you will lose weight compared with someone who processes more of what they eat. This level of processing can be genetically based. Thermodynamics really do not apply at the gross level in this case. This is why we have an operation that shortens ones intestines - after the operation, the subjects have to eat large amounts of food since absorption is limited by their shorter intestines.
If you believe that all of their work should be free because it impedes Mankind, will you do the same? Go out, invent something to change the world, write books to enlighten the masses, pull humanity to the next level, ie do whatever you think is missing from the world, and give it to us. Help us out rather than applying your values to others, telling them at what price they should value their works/time. Let's make a difference! Not by trying to take from someone who doesn't want to give, but by doing what we believe is the right thing to do. I look forward to seeing a whole lot of free advancements from the this crowd!
I get these types of emails all of the time; very frustrating to not know if it is something I really need to do something about or scam. It seems that there is a simple solution, if banks started digitally signing emails they sent to customers, then we would know that it actually came from them. No more worries about redirects, phishing, etc.
Does anyone know of a bank that digitally signs all of its email to its customers? It seems that it would be worthwhile to switch to a bank that does this.
Probably true for all business related emails as well.
Maybe this is how other civilizations communicate, through biologicals on comets rather than what we have been looking for: spaceships, radio waves, etc. Maybe these comets are an answer to Fermi's Paradox?
For a non-US citizen to get the necessary visa to work in the software industry, one has to show that that person possesses unique skills and is therefore not taking jobs from Americans. At most of the software companies at which I worked, we had non-US citizens, and they were always jumping through hoops to get here and then stay here. It seems that companies have found a cheaper way around sponsoring someone: outsourcing. So, now, a US company can get that same foreign workers without the high cost of bringing them here to do the work, as well as the savings on their salaries by paying them local wages. Giving this high cost of entry, it is a logical way for companies to skirt the old problems, even though it bypasses the reason for the laws.
The question is, is this the way we want it to be? If we want to keep the spirit of the laws, we would need to impose the same restriction on outsourcing (show that the work has to be sent somewhere else because it can not be done here). If we decide that protecting jobs is no longer a valid long term strategy, then we should lower the barrier for non-US citizens to actually come here and work. Either way, one of the two means for non-US citizens to work for US-based companies will have to change in order to balance the current disparity.
"Another senior official who also demanded anonymity"
Funny how these senior officials demand the same right to anonymity that they wish to take from us.