Not at all. It forces them to use their resources to keep their currency in the range they want. If speculators around the world suddenly decided to dump the USD and purchase RMB there isn't a damn thing China could do to keep their currency down. Pegging to the USD means that they're using the USD internally for all intents and purposes, and external manipulation is pretty much impossible.
Their currency works exactly like all the other ones. China just buys huge amounts of US debt to keep their currency down. There is a big difference between this kind of currency manipulation and just pegging the Yuan to the USD like Argentina did with their currency from 1991-2002.
That's right. Automation is evil. Every job that has ever been done by a person should always be done by a person. Tilling and planting a few hundred acres of farmland should take hundreds of people! Building cars shouldn't be automated at all since people are far more precise than machines! We should go back to a time where the majority of people work in agriculture and assembly lines!
Also a great, big, whoosh to anyone about to mod this down:P
Fair enough, the US is the only nation to tax income without representation. Sales taxes in countries you don't live in are a bit easier to avoid than income taxes.
Funny thing is that this makes the US about the only nation to practice taxation without representation. I am a US citizen who can't vote (never lived there, and Ohio doesn't recognize my parents living there as being good enough for me to vote), and yet the IRS expects me to pay taxes.
You absolutely do not need to make a nuclear material go critical to generate energy. Anything that decays naturally generates energy as it decays. If smacking it with a laser causes it to decay faster it doesn't matter if it isn't self-perpetuating, it still generates energy.
Unless you're getting thorium back out conservation of energy doesn't apply. If it did then nuclear power wouldn't work.
It didn't say how long the laser would pulse for. Assuming it's a small fraction of a second a 250MW laser isn't outside the realm of possibility.
I left aviation a few years ago, so I don't know if something has changed, but the FAA was planning on switching navigation to a pure-GPS system because the maintenance on the waypoint towers was too expensive. They had already implemented the new system on flights above FL 410. Essentially they created a virtual waypoint every so many lat and long and you had to hit at least 1 waypoint over each state you were crossing over (IIRC). It allowed them to get rid of the radio towers and still have a system where they could ensure flightpaths wouldn't get over crowded, but there was a lot of argument over removing one of the current backup systems for navigation. The plan was to drop the ceiling on using it every so often so each year more flights would move over, but I don't know what the status is now.
Facebook is not The Internet. Thankfully. Facebook and G+ both require real names for the majority in order for people's social networks to be able to mirror real life, which is the point of FB. Other social networks have different goals, and real names don't matter. A few people on FB using pseudonyms don't cause issues since you can find them by looking through contacts of mutual friends. If the majority of FB users used pseudonyms it would be very hard for someone just joining to find the people they know in real life, which kind of defeats the purpose of FB.
I would take it just for the first point there. Get rid of a bunch of power bricks and give me one standard where the device and brick can negotiate how much power to send. Even if I have to have 4 bricks for USB A/B/mini/micro it's far better than the current mess of not knowing which brick goes with which device.
While I agree, I seem to recall that HTML5 was going to be a standard that just constantly evolved. They weren't actually planning on locking down a final standard at any point. Contrast that with C++0x where at least they pretend that there will eventually be a standard and we'll just call it C++0A or C++0B...
I'm sure there are some successful patent trolls around, or even large universities that hold patents would probably have enough money to drive up the price a bit.
The starting cost for that senator is $200k. But it's an auction, remember? You still have to bid more than the people who want to keep things the way they are.
I've worked in enterprises running Oracle. I've worked in enterprises running MySQL. I've only once worked in an enterprise that was running postgres and that company was working on transitioning to MySQL. Anecdotal, of course, but I'm just not seeing any enterprises that agree with your assertion that postgres is better.
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Not at all. It forces them to use their resources to keep their currency in the range they want. If speculators around the world suddenly decided to dump the USD and purchase RMB there isn't a damn thing China could do to keep their currency down. Pegging to the USD means that they're using the USD internally for all intents and purposes, and external manipulation is pretty much impossible.
Their currency works exactly like all the other ones. China just buys huge amounts of US debt to keep their currency down. There is a big difference between this kind of currency manipulation and just pegging the Yuan to the USD like Argentina did with their currency from 1991-2002.
That's right. Automation is evil. Every job that has ever been done by a person should always be done by a person. Tilling and planting a few hundred acres of farmland should take hundreds of people! Building cars shouldn't be automated at all since people are far more precise than machines! We should go back to a time where the majority of people work in agriculture and assembly lines!
:P
Also a great, big, whoosh to anyone about to mod this down
Fair enough, the US is the only nation to tax income without representation. Sales taxes in countries you don't live in are a bit easier to avoid than income taxes.
Funny thing is that this makes the US about the only nation to practice taxation without representation. I am a US citizen who can't vote (never lived there, and Ohio doesn't recognize my parents living there as being good enough for me to vote), and yet the IRS expects me to pay taxes.
You forget to mention that the embassy will charge you around $800 these days to recognize that you have, in fact, renounced your citizenship.
You absolutely do not need to make a nuclear material go critical to generate energy. Anything that decays naturally generates energy as it decays. If smacking it with a laser causes it to decay faster it doesn't matter if it isn't self-perpetuating, it still generates energy.
Unless you're getting thorium back out conservation of energy doesn't apply. If it did then nuclear power wouldn't work. It didn't say how long the laser would pulse for. Assuming it's a small fraction of a second a 250MW laser isn't outside the realm of possibility.
You can also go spelunking. There are probably caves that aren't explored yet.
I left aviation a few years ago, so I don't know if something has changed, but the FAA was planning on switching navigation to a pure-GPS system because the maintenance on the waypoint towers was too expensive. They had already implemented the new system on flights above FL 410. Essentially they created a virtual waypoint every so many lat and long and you had to hit at least 1 waypoint over each state you were crossing over (IIRC). It allowed them to get rid of the radio towers and still have a system where they could ensure flightpaths wouldn't get over crowded, but there was a lot of argument over removing one of the current backup systems for navigation. The plan was to drop the ceiling on using it every so often so each year more flights would move over, but I don't know what the status is now.
Slightly used, probably won't be able to fly again. Can still sell it to Canada though..
The teachers I know just set everything to private so only people they choose can see them. It's the lawyers who seem to be using pseudonyms...
Facebook is not The Internet. Thankfully. Facebook and G+ both require real names for the majority in order for people's social networks to be able to mirror real life, which is the point of FB. Other social networks have different goals, and real names don't matter. A few people on FB using pseudonyms don't cause issues since you can find them by looking through contacts of mutual friends. If the majority of FB users used pseudonyms it would be very hard for someone just joining to find the people they know in real life, which kind of defeats the purpose of FB.
You look like you're trying to run that guy off the road. Can I help?
The person running the show is the person responsible, and the engineers are the ones running the show.
I would take it just for the first point there. Get rid of a bunch of power bricks and give me one standard where the device and brick can negotiate how much power to send. Even if I have to have 4 bricks for USB A/B/mini/micro it's far better than the current mess of not knowing which brick goes with which device.
choosing to slave
Do you see the contradiction in logic there? Slaves don't have a choice, in particular they don't have a choice to be a slave.
While I agree, I seem to recall that HTML5 was going to be a standard that just constantly evolved. They weren't actually planning on locking down a final standard at any point. Contrast that with C++0x where at least they pretend that there will eventually be a standard and we'll just call it C++0A or C++0B...
A decent sized city lot will take more than a single charge to mow. Electrics are a pain, but battery forces a lot of us to mow only part of the lawn.
In this instance I don't think they would refer to them as 'child' companies...
I'm sure there are some successful patent trolls around, or even large universities that hold patents would probably have enough money to drive up the price a bit.
The starting cost for that senator is $200k. But it's an auction, remember? You still have to bid more than the people who want to keep things the way they are.
I think I'm just not quite there yet. One more beer shouldo...
Alcohol only works in sepcific concentrations
I've worked in enterprises running Oracle. I've worked in enterprises running MySQL. I've only once worked in an enterprise that was running postgres and that company was working on transitioning to MySQL. Anecdotal, of course, but I'm just not seeing any enterprises that agree with your assertion that postgres is better.