Finance is lightly regulated: you can create a new security and start selling it without any approval process at all. Medicine is tightly regulated. If you want to see what a loosely regulated drug industry looks like, have a look at the (near complete lack of ) QC enforcement of drug manufacturers in India and how the resulting drugs perform in patients.
I happen to own (along with 500 acres with a well on it) a significant portion of 860 acre-feet of water rights in a rocky mountain state and I grew up in CA, so I'm fairly familiar with the way water works out west.
If you think the only cost of ground water in the west is digging a well and pumping it out, you likely don't live in the west. Essentially all the water in most western States is used by whomever owns the water rights.
Surface water is regulated and priced that way in CA, but California law gives the groundwater rights to whoever owns the overlying land.
Those laws aren't very unique. CA currently has zero laws regulating groundwater pumping, AZ seems to be planning to regulate it - just as soon as the wells go dry.
What natural price are you talking about, exactly?
The natural price for ground water is the cost of digging a well on your property and pumping the water out from under your (and your neighbors') property. The price only goes up to the extent you drain the aquifer and need to dig a deeper well.
I take it you specified bystander so as to avoid mention of Roman Pirozek taking off the top of his head (yes, he died) with an RC helicopter. Hobby RC aircraft are already regulated: where and when they can't fly, etc. The new FAA regulations don't need to exclude hobby RC aircraft, just deal with them at the minimum level needed to protect people's safety, privacy, and property.
TV used to have 52 minutes of content for 8 commercials.
Now it has 42 minutes of content for 18 commercials.
And in some cases 39 minutes of content for 23 minutes of content (by over laying the credits of the prior show with commercials).
I mostly just don't watch it any more.
But I've also gotten really good at not seeing the commercials. At first I had to try but now it's like I can sort of go blind and deaf to the commercials until the show comes back on.
I'd be willing to pay for cable TV per hour - with a simple stipulation. Say they get to charge me $2 per hour of original (never seen before on cable, broadcast, in theatres, etc) content. I charge them $2 per hour to watch the commercials, and promotions for the channel/network/whatever also count as commercials. So 42 min content - 18 min commercials = 24 minutes (80 cents) they would net per hour from me. Repeats would work the same way, but with figures of $1 per hour of content/hour of ads.
Look at the most popular and longest running TV shows over the last 50 years and there not crap. Mostly, it's original or well excited ideas, not drivitive crap.
How difficult is it for most people to memorize relative finger positions as opposed to absolute positions on a keyboard? How much lag will users experience transitioning to some other interface each time they get to a character they haven't memorized?
The republicans are much better at drawing people together based on commonalities in what they hate and fear than the Democrats. That has worked best by pushing simple yes/no good/bad simplified versions of issues - like gun control - and burying the complications.
religious zealots are the ones who see most clearly that science functions as a religion in modern society
In the sense that science and religion both underpin the way people see and interact with the universe, other people, and many of their attempts to control both. Sort of how apples function as oranges if what you are doing is holding a piece of fruit or chucking it at someone's head. Eating them are somewhat different experiences though.
If you're in CA, CO, or one of the other drought stricken states you might want to skip the lighter. If you've gotten yourself lost, you probably shouldn't be setting a signal fire:
Until grants provide funding for reproducing old results, publishing a paper will remain the first step in getting the work reproduced. Typically by someone who needs the technique/result for their own work.
retractionwatch.com is great for the most influential journals but it's safe to say it's only catching a small minority of the infractions, and of those really only the ones published in english. One cynical solution: as grant money continues to dry up, scientists will realize that the easiest way to improve their chances to get their grant approved is to thin out the competition: exhaustively check their competitors' publications and old grant applications for plagiarism and fraud, then complain anonymously.
Solomon performed experiments showing the effectiveness of the membranes in separating nanoemulsions while maintaining integrity at high pressure. The team used various techniques — including differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic light scattering, and microscopy — to test the separation efficiency, showing more than 99.9 percent separation.
Microscopy images show the membrane in operation, with dye added to the water to make the droplets more obvious. Within seconds, an oil-water mixture that is heavily clouded becomes perfectly clear, as the water passes through the membrane, leaving pure oil behind. As shown in the microscope images, Solomon says, “We’re not only getting rid of the droplets you can see, but also smaller ones,” which contribute to the cloudy appearance.
How much oil (weight/weight) can a piece of membrane hold on to? Can the oil be stripped off of the membrane so that the membrane can be reused? If the answers are "less than 1:1" and "no", this might still be useful as a final purification stage after most of the oil has been removed or for situations where you are trying to clear smaller amounts of more toxic materials.
I think the right people were the ones who received a portion of each deal without actually having to hold on to the security/property itself or at least not for very long, thus minimizing their risks. Bundle the mortgages, shove out the door ASAP. See: Goldman Sachs.
A lot of the money did just evaporate: securities became worthless, real estate lost 40% or more of its value. But for the actuaries/econ wonks planning the deals almost all of them were better off just being optimists. The worst that would happen is they would look bad (and get laid off) at the same time that all of their peers looked bad. If they tried to call the bust most would have gotten the date wrong. If they called it too early they would most likely be ignored then fired. If their client/boss had actually paid attention their investments would have quickly underperformed everyone else's: they would have been ridiculed and THEN fired. Sure they would have been vindicated eventually... well after they were fired. If they called the bust too late: same results, more or less. A few would of course get the date right, but how many people get to be economists by drawing to inside straights?
Can it tell the difference between a shark and a dolphin? I guess if it mistakes a duck diving surfer for a shark it would be one way to cut down on the crowds.
Sounds like a great way to sell a $5000 oven that will regularly require parts and services to keep all of the extra features running - and of course the oven will be programmed not to function at all unless all of the features are working.
I like some of the features, but overall I would like a cheap reliable oven which minimizes heat transfer to the kitchen I am paying to air condition.
Yup, but I don't think any were worried that suddenly looking for and then telling the truth would burst the bubble. They just knew that promotions, endowed chairs, year end bonuses, etc, were not going to be handed to the pessimists saying "you know that thing we're doing that's making all the money? Stop it. Right now."
You can put your antenna in your neighbor's yard, or share the same hardware. You're able to receive those broadcasts yourself as long as there is no corporate intermediary controlling your access.
Where does the "corporate intermediary" show up in the law? Is it still rebroadcasting if the corporation rents/sells me an antenna and a coax cable and that's it?
Well if the job market is so terrible (for employees) and never getting better, then the obvious thing to do is to exploit that and become an employer. You can hire people for essentially nothing, and rake in huge profits for doing very little work.
Now you know who the actual "workahol" addict is. I.e., not the worker.
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Finance is lightly regulated: you can create a new security and start selling it without any approval process at all. Medicine is tightly regulated. If you want to see what a loosely regulated drug industry looks like, have a look at the (near complete lack of ) QC enforcement of drug manufacturers in India and how the resulting drugs perform in patients.
I happen to own (along with 500 acres with a well on it) a significant portion of 860 acre-feet of water rights in a rocky mountain state and I grew up in CA, so I'm fairly familiar with the way water works out west.
If you think the only cost of ground water in the west is digging a well and pumping it out, you likely don't live in the west. Essentially all the water in most western States is used by whomever owns the water rights.
Surface water is regulated and priced that way in CA, but California law gives the groundwater rights to whoever owns the overlying land.
Those laws aren't very unique. CA currently has zero laws regulating groundwater pumping, AZ seems to be planning to regulate it - just as soon as the wells go dry.
What natural price are you talking about, exactly? The natural price for ground water is the cost of digging a well on your property and pumping the water out from under your (and your neighbors') property. The price only goes up to the extent you drain the aquifer and need to dig a deeper well.
I take it you specified bystander so as to avoid mention of Roman Pirozek taking off the top of his head (yes, he died) with an RC helicopter. Hobby RC aircraft are already regulated: where and when they can't fly, etc. The new FAA regulations don't need to exclude hobby RC aircraft, just deal with them at the minimum level needed to protect people's safety, privacy, and property.
TV used to have 52 minutes of content for 8 commercials.
Now it has 42 minutes of content for 18 commercials. And in some cases 39 minutes of content for 23 minutes of content (by over laying the credits of the prior show with commercials).
I mostly just don't watch it any more.
But I've also gotten really good at not seeing the commercials. At first I had to try but now it's like I can sort of go blind and deaf to the commercials until the show comes back on.
I'd be willing to pay for cable TV per hour - with a simple stipulation. Say they get to charge me $2 per hour of original (never seen before on cable, broadcast, in theatres, etc) content. I charge them $2 per hour to watch the commercials, and promotions for the channel/network/whatever also count as commercials. So 42 min content - 18 min commercials = 24 minutes (80 cents) they would net per hour from me. Repeats would work the same way, but with figures of $1 per hour of content/hour of ads.
Look at the most popular and longest running TV shows over the last 50 years and there not crap. Mostly, it's original or well excited ideas, not drivitive crap.
Less true now than earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_America#Most_watched_U.S._TV_series
The most popular TV show in the USA from 2003 to 2011 was American idol: definitely not original or exciting.
How difficult is it for most people to memorize relative finger positions as opposed to absolute positions on a keyboard? How much lag will users experience transitioning to some other interface each time they get to a character they haven't memorized?
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/03/gop-house-decides-2nd-amendment-limits-approves-gun-control-measure-voice-vote.html
The republicans are much better at drawing people together based on commonalities in what they hate and fear than the Democrats. That has worked best by pushing simple yes/no good/bad simplified versions of issues - like gun control - and burying the complications.
religious zealots are the ones who see most clearly that science functions as a religion in modern society
In the sense that science and religion both underpin the way people see and interact with the universe, other people, and many of their attempts to control both. Sort of how apples function as oranges if what you are doing is holding a piece of fruit or chucking it at someone's head. Eating them are somewhat different experiences though.
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/oct/24/ceder-fire-san-diego-ten-years-later/
Until grants provide funding for reproducing old results, publishing a paper will remain the first step in getting the work reproduced. Typically by someone who needs the technique/result for their own work.
retractionwatch.com is great for the most influential journals but it's safe to say it's only catching a small minority of the infractions, and of those really only the ones published in english. One cynical solution: as grant money continues to dry up, scientists will realize that the easiest way to improve their chances to get their grant approved is to thin out the competition: exhaustively check their competitors' publications and old grant applications for plagiarism and fraud, then complain anonymously.
You know, I don't think I've ever heard of a mix of cash, lawyers, and lobbyists being referred to as "dispersant" before.
Solomon performed experiments showing the effectiveness of the membranes in separating nanoemulsions while maintaining integrity at high pressure. The team used various techniques — including differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic light scattering, and microscopy — to test the separation efficiency, showing more than 99.9 percent separation. Microscopy images show the membrane in operation, with dye added to the water to make the droplets more obvious. Within seconds, an oil-water mixture that is heavily clouded becomes perfectly clear, as the water passes through the membrane, leaving pure oil behind. As shown in the microscope images, Solomon says, “We’re not only getting rid of the droplets you can see, but also smaller ones,” which contribute to the cloudy appearance.
How much oil (weight/weight) can a piece of membrane hold on to? Can the oil be stripped off of the membrane so that the membrane can be reused? If the answers are "less than 1:1" and "no", this might still be useful as a final purification stage after most of the oil has been removed or for situations where you are trying to clear smaller amounts of more toxic materials.
I think the right people were the ones who received a portion of each deal without actually having to hold on to the security/property itself or at least not for very long, thus minimizing their risks. Bundle the mortgages, shove out the door ASAP. See: Goldman Sachs.
A lot of the money did just evaporate: securities became worthless, real estate lost 40% or more of its value. But for the actuaries/econ wonks planning the deals almost all of them were better off just being optimists. The worst that would happen is they would look bad (and get laid off) at the same time that all of their peers looked bad. If they tried to call the bust most would have gotten the date wrong. If they called it too early they would most likely be ignored then fired. If their client/boss had actually paid attention their investments would have quickly underperformed everyone else's: they would have been ridiculed and THEN fired. Sure they would have been vindicated eventually ... well after they were fired. If they called the bust too late: same results, more or less. A few would of course get the date right, but how many people get to be economists by drawing to inside straights?
Can it tell the difference between a shark and a dolphin? I guess if it mistakes a duck diving surfer for a shark it would be one way to cut down on the crowds.
I like some of the features, but overall I would like a cheap reliable oven which minimizes heat transfer to the kitchen I am paying to air condition.
If I want a steak like a steakhouse, I want 800C
Prime rib or steak I get the oven as high as possible, leave a cast iron grill in there and then sear it fast.
So you burn the seasoning off of the grill before cooking the steak? The carbon will be burned off by the time you hit 800C (1470 F).
Yup, but I don't think any were worried that suddenly looking for and then telling the truth would burst the bubble. They just knew that promotions, endowed chairs, year end bonuses, etc, were not going to be handed to the pessimists saying "you know that thing we're doing that's making all the money? Stop it. Right now."
I don't know about now but when/where I was growing up it cost about half as much to take a limo home from the airport as a taxi.
1. Neighbor lets you rent antenna on his roof, you and he run a coax cable from it to your TV.
2. Same but more neighbors/antennas.
3. Same but digitally encoded.
4. Same but using internet connections as opposed to a cable between the houses.
5. Same but with a cloud based DVR.
6. Aereo.
You can put your antenna in your neighbor's yard, or share the same hardware. You're able to receive those broadcasts yourself as long as there is no corporate intermediary controlling your access.
Where does the "corporate intermediary" show up in the law? Is it still rebroadcasting if the corporation rents/sells me an antenna and a coax cable and that's it?
Well if the job market is so terrible (for employees) and never getting better, then the obvious thing to do is to exploit that and become an employer. You can hire people for essentially nothing, and rake in huge profits for doing very little work.
Now you know who the actual "workahol" addict is. I.e., not the worker.