I remember a news story not long ago where the DEA had seized 50 pounds of marijuana -- a street value of "about a million dollars". If you do the math, that means someone is selling grams of marijuana for forty five dollars. That's absurd -- that would mean that by weight, marijuana is worth about half as much as gold.
But, hey hey! You need to let the populace know that their tax dollars are being well spent!
Biology influences culture. DNA makes our brains, with well-proven gender differences, and our brains lead to our culture. Our culture is created directly by our brains, and also by the interaction with other people (brains).
By that logic, new financial instruments are influenced by Biology as well. As you said, our DNA makes our brains and our brains make financial instruments. Therefore, financial instruments are biologically influenced.
Yeah, you can say that, I guess. It's technically "correct." However, it makes implications about Biology being a much larger influence than it actually is.
Humans around the globe are genetically extremely similar, regardless of ethnicity or race. If culture is so Biology-dependent, then why have different cultures over the past 10,000 years organized themselves and functioned in such a wide variety of different fashions? Patriarchy to matriarchy, migratory to stationary, polygamous to monogamous, vegetarian to omnivorous.
Culture is influenced by Biology, you're right, but Biology is more of a starting point, not a road map. Culture is mostly effected by geography, economics, technological advancement, social development, and chance events.
If society doesn't want to change who are you to tell it it should? Society is people , not mindless robots.
You're suggesting that people shouldn't state their opinion.
If everyone thought that their opinion should be kept to themselves because they are just one person and not the mass, nothing would ever change. Someone has to stand up and say, "I think this is wrong," or people would continue to think that they are alone in what they believe. Protesting has the goal of changing opinions and mobilizing bodies -- and it does both of these.
500,000,000 downloads... 300,000,000 minutes... 0.6 minutes played per download?
These numbers must include trials and people re-downloading on new phones. I'd be more interested in the number who have PURCHASED Angry Birds.
This kind of technology will completely change the marketplace.
If these get cheap enough that you can put one of these in your house, it would give you the ability to handle a virtual version of whatever item you wanted to buy... before you bought it! If these machines were accurate and sensitive enough (and had the computational power) you could even interact with a virtual version of say, a mobile phone. You wouldn't be able to actually "feel" anything you you were handling, but it sure beats the hell out of a jpeg.
Well, if Boston is like other parts of the country/world, the meter maids are already pretty good about making sure that as soon as your meter is up (sometimes even a couple minutes before) there is a ticket on your window. It's hard for me to see this increasing profits for cities (aside from saving money on meter maids).
Should this parking-spot-finding mobile app come to fruition, the real winners here are drivers.
It would make sense that the entity writing the contract would be favored in the contract it had written. Especially when they serve a large number of customers and don't individualize their contracts.
It's going to be "voluntary", but soon enough legislation will be passed that makes it so "questionable websites", such as those associated with porn, will be mandated to require an Internet ID for age verification. And simultaneously the government will know what kind of porn you like to look at and can blackmail you whenever they see fit.
All the people who upgrade their "gas guzzler" to a Prius end up hurting the environment more than if they had continued to drive their previous vehicle, simply because of the energy and waste involved in producing a new car -- regardless of whether the car energy efficient or not.
Making something that looks 3D and making something that either does, or appears to project a 3D image into space are two different things. This is nothing more than drawing a picture with perspective... next, please.
We are moving towards a future without laptops and desktop PCs. Power-users will of course keep home desktops for some time to come, but your average joe-shmoe would be happy to replace his current laptop with a powerful mobile device. There is no need to tether when you get home if the thing you would be tethering to is the same thing you carry around in your pocket all day.
I predict a future where the only people who have desktops or laptops at home are people in the multimedia business or PC gaming. Everyone else will just have a smartphone with a wireless keyboard and use their home television as a monitor.
I never understood the side of the Net Neutrality argument that most commenters are taking here. Why shouldn't a company that has built out infrastructure (in some cases taking enormous risk) be free to charge what they want to access that infrastructure?
That infrastructure is built on public land and the cost of construction is subsidized by the government. You tell me why I shouldn't have a say over it.
This way, if the student can answer the easy and medium problems, and some of the hard problems, he'll end up with a C, which is pretty much the objective.
The goal is a C? I don't know where you went to school, but the average GPA is over 3.0 at my university. If the "average" student got a C, you would see graduates having VERY hard times getting jobs out of school or getting into graduate programs.
I agree with you that a C should be average, but the correct solution is not to start grading this way -- you're just screwing over your own students once they graduate. They may learn more than most students, but there is no use in knowing a lot if no one will hire you.
My school also has a subscription-based text notification system and I've been signed up for it for just over three years.
They have only sent out texts three or four times -- twice about a possible meningitis case on campus, once about a building that had structural damage and became a hazard, and once because of a snow storm and school was cancelled.
All in all useful. They send a test text once semester.
Colleges get $50 (sometimes $100) from each applicant. That means that if Brown or Stanford increase their applicant pool by 5,000 people in a year, thats an extra quarter million they are making, minimum.
What's easier than making money from overpriced tuition? Convincing underqualified people to apply, taking their application fee, and instantly throwing out their application in a GPA/SAT filter.
The kids who are really interested in science and willing to learn about it will do so with or without having a science kit bought for them. There are plenty of kids who have science kits and don't do anything with them -- and there are even more kids without kits who find their own way to explore science. With the internet at your fingertips a trip to the hardware store has plenty of experiments to offer.
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The feds always do this.
I remember a news story not long ago where the DEA had seized 50 pounds of marijuana -- a street value of "about a million dollars". If you do the math, that means someone is selling grams of marijuana for forty five dollars. That's absurd -- that would mean that by weight, marijuana is worth about half as much as gold.
But, hey hey! You need to let the populace know that their tax dollars are being well spent!
Less copper in the cable = less expense in raw materials
Of course, this is for the same reason that people are stealing the cable in the first place: copper is EXPENSIVE.
Biology influences culture. DNA makes our brains, with well-proven gender differences, and our brains lead to our culture. Our culture is created directly by our brains, and also by the interaction with other people (brains).
By that logic, new financial instruments are influenced by Biology as well. As you said, our DNA makes our brains and our brains make financial instruments. Therefore, financial instruments are biologically influenced.
Yeah, you can say that, I guess. It's technically "correct." However, it makes implications about Biology being a much larger influence than it actually is. Humans around the globe are genetically extremely similar, regardless of ethnicity or race. If culture is so Biology-dependent, then why have different cultures over the past 10,000 years organized themselves and functioned in such a wide variety of different fashions? Patriarchy to matriarchy, migratory to stationary, polygamous to monogamous, vegetarian to omnivorous.
Culture is influenced by Biology, you're right, but Biology is more of a starting point, not a road map. Culture is mostly effected by geography, economics, technological advancement, social development, and chance events.
Wow, you try really hard to be a dick.
Maybe you should spend more time making constructive posts and less time insulting people.
If society doesn't want to change who are you to tell it it should? Society is people , not mindless robots.
You're suggesting that people shouldn't state their opinion.
If everyone thought that their opinion should be kept to themselves because they are just one person and not the mass, nothing would ever change. Someone has to stand up and say, "I think this is wrong," or people would continue to think that they are alone in what they believe. Protesting has the goal of changing opinions and mobilizing bodies -- and it does both of these.
500,000,000 downloads... 300,000,000 minutes... 0.6 minutes played per download?
These numbers must include trials and people re-downloading on new phones. I'd be more interested in the number who have PURCHASED Angry Birds.
You seem to think that writing your congressmen will effect their opinion, but your letter doesn't include a promise of campaign contributions.
Something tells me your letter wont do much.
This kind of technology will completely change the marketplace.
If these get cheap enough that you can put one of these in your house, it would give you the ability to handle a virtual version of whatever item you wanted to buy... before you bought it! If these machines were accurate and sensitive enough (and had the computational power) you could even interact with a virtual version of say, a mobile phone. You wouldn't be able to actually "feel" anything you you were handling, but it sure beats the hell out of a jpeg.
Well, if Boston is like other parts of the country/world, the meter maids are already pretty good about making sure that as soon as your meter is up (sometimes even a couple minutes before) there is a ticket on your window. It's hard for me to see this increasing profits for cities (aside from saving money on meter maids).
Should this parking-spot-finding mobile app come to fruition, the real winners here are drivers.
Terminator? Or the Matrix?
It would make sense that the entity writing the contract would be favored in the contract it had written. Especially when they serve a large number of customers and don't individualize their contracts.
It's going to be "voluntary", but soon enough legislation will be passed that makes it so "questionable websites", such as those associated with porn, will be mandated to require an Internet ID for age verification. And simultaneously the government will know what kind of porn you like to look at and can blackmail you whenever they see fit.
All the people who upgrade their "gas guzzler" to a Prius end up hurting the environment more than if they had continued to drive their previous vehicle, simply because of the energy and waste involved in producing a new car -- regardless of whether the car energy efficient or not.
Making something that looks 3D and making something that either does, or appears to project a 3D image into space are two different things. This is nothing more than drawing a picture with perspective... next, please.
We are moving towards a future without laptops and desktop PCs. Power-users will of course keep home desktops for some time to come, but your average joe-shmoe would be happy to replace his current laptop with a powerful mobile device. There is no need to tether when you get home if the thing you would be tethering to is the same thing you carry around in your pocket all day.
I predict a future where the only people who have desktops or laptops at home are people in the multimedia business or PC gaming. Everyone else will just have a smartphone with a wireless keyboard and use their home television as a monitor.
Why do you seem to think that companies are a good model on which to base the military?
They are held to different standards -- and for very good reason.
OnLive might have worked if US internet connections operated as advertised.
But they don't.
I never understood the side of the Net Neutrality argument that most commenters are taking here. Why shouldn't a company that has built out infrastructure (in some cases taking enormous risk) be free to charge what they want to access that infrastructure?
That infrastructure is built on public land and the cost of construction is subsidized by the government. You tell me why I shouldn't have a say over it.
This way, if the student can answer the easy and medium problems, and some of the hard problems, he'll end up with a C, which is pretty much the objective.
The goal is a C? I don't know where you went to school, but the average GPA is over 3.0 at my university. If the "average" student got a C, you would see graduates having VERY hard times getting jobs out of school or getting into graduate programs.
I agree with you that a C should be average, but the correct solution is not to start grading this way -- you're just screwing over your own students once they graduate. They may learn more than most students, but there is no use in knowing a lot if no one will hire you.
My school also has a subscription-based text notification system and I've been signed up for it for just over three years. They have only sent out texts three or four times -- twice about a possible meningitis case on campus, once about a building that had structural damage and became a hazard, and once because of a snow storm and school was cancelled. All in all useful. They send a test text once semester.
Colleges get $50 (sometimes $100) from each applicant. That means that if Brown or Stanford increase their applicant pool by 5,000 people in a year, thats an extra quarter million they are making, minimum.
What's easier than making money from overpriced tuition? Convincing underqualified people to apply, taking their application fee, and instantly throwing out their application in a GPA/SAT filter.
... when you can be charged with the possibility of jail time for simply soldering computer components together for hire.
This guy isn't responsible for what people do AFTER he performs a hardware modification.
The kids who are really interested in science and willing to learn about it will do so with or without having a science kit bought for them. There are plenty of kids who have science kits and don't do anything with them -- and there are even more kids without kits who find their own way to explore science. With the internet at your fingertips a trip to the hardware store has plenty of experiments to offer.
Just because you don't use the word "class", doesn't mean you have a classless society.
We don't have cars in china. This is a carless society. You can purchase an "automobile", however.