CA-6 would have Orange County as well as inland San Diego, so it would go Red as well. If Draper wants to pretend it's about Democracy, he should do something about one state having a population of one million and The State Of Greater Los Angeles having 12 million. How about a plan where California is split into N states each of which has roughly 1/N of the population? Oh yeah - that would suck for Republicans.
If Silicon Valley's owners want to own their own senators and state regulatory agencies, they should arrange (pay) for Silicon Valley to be annexed to South Dakota. Silicon Valley would make up the bulk of Silicon Dakota's voters, and SD would still work as an acronym
It's funny when other countries talk about "voting conservative". It's like me in California talking about winter when people from Saskatchewan are in the room.
So which is it 1) reducing child abuse and neglect would decrease the amount of violent crime committed by the victims later in life or 2) would not decrease it?
Because evil bastards don't get cured.
Because Cohiba was talking about causes, not cures.
Naah. Kids started reading freakonomics and quit selling drugs on street corners. Then pot was semi-legalized so they started selling it in storefronts.
Another way to look at it as you can build a $400 PC and then spend $100 to put Windows on it or $0 to put OS X on it. Not really Apple's intention, but it still works fine if you buy parts with that goal in mind.
Apple used to sell their OS for $20; now 10.9 and all future OS versions are free. Microsoft wants ~ $100+ for Win7/Win8. Microsoft wants $100/year for Office 365.
Will Apple is no saint, Bill Gates was responsible for Microsoft nickeling and diming customers every chance they get.
These are projects (TB, cholera, rotavirus, vaccines) that don't generate much revenue for Big Pharma: that's why Big Pharma doesn't often invest in them. Googling "giving away millions of dollars in life-saving medicines", which you put in quotes, comes up with one single result: your comment. The Gates foundation requires that it's research programs share results and that global prices for products using its grant money be kept low. I fully realize Microsoft's contributions to the global IP situation, but do you have a source for what the Gates Foundation is doing to further them?
Tesla doesn't deal with unions in CA either: a lot of the workers used to be UAW but so far there has been no unionization at Fremont. Things can always change though: looks like Volkwagen may become a union shop in Tennessee, though under the German model as opposed to UAW.
Gates is an awesome model for billionaire charity: Warren Buffet likes it so much he is going to donate 85% of his wealth to it. Most of the money goes to biomedical (TB, AIDS, sanitation, fresh water, vaccines, orphan diseases) issues that can't really improve the market for M$ other than through brand management... and healthier customers.
So when you donate shares to a foundation you control do you still get to vote the shares? Seems like an awesome loophole: you still get to use the voting power of the shares to further your own best interests, not necessarily those of the foundation.
Bottom line, multivitamins are a good idea unless you keep track of your vitamin intake and eat organically AND exercise once a day like the CDC recommends.
Yet somehow Vitamin D deficiency is the only common deficiency in adults in the US, and isn't fixed by eating organic or exercising (unless you do it outside in the sun). If you're Vitamin D deficient you don't need a multivitamin, you just need a vitamin D supplement or sunlight.
Bread must be tricky - I've left salt out of the dough when baking bread and the loss of flavor is profound. How much can you take out and still get it to taste good? Do some types of bread lend themselves better to low salt versions than others?
In the UK they fortify food but rather than putting a full selection in each food they only put a subset in.
A lot of that has to do with stability, solubility, and flavor. Folic acid is stable to heat so you can put it in flour and it will still be in the bread. Vitamin D is fat soluble: put it in dairy products. Vitamin C breaks down due to heat, light, and , air: put it in a sealed bottle of juice.
Old school chemotherapeutics are a real bitch: knock down your old cancer while potentially giving you a new one. The new antibody/immune therapies are looking pretty amazing, unfortunately with cancer "amazing" still doesn't mean cure.
Folic acid is added to bread, cereals, flour, etc.
Vitamin C is added to juice, along with most other things marketed to kids.
Niacin is added to bread.
Vitamin D and calcium are added to milk and other dairy products.
Cereals (especially sugary ones marketed to kids) are usually fortified with a dozen vitamins and minerals.
You probably won't end up with a vitamin deficiency from eating junk food so long as you don't eat the same few junk foods exclusively. What you'll end up with is a diet with way too much of the wrong stuff.
Vice presidents vote in tie-breakers in the senate, but I think what's relevant to Corn is that they're also pretty influential when gearing up for a run at the presidency.
What happens when the department is told to fill the hole in its budget with revenue from textbook sales? Profs (in the US) are going to come under increasing pressure to use materials that generate revenue for their school.
Not so much now that textbooks are becoming a significant source of revenue for schools. At the university level I think students in the US can look forward to being required to purchase a copy of the textbook through a university-approved source if they want to stay registered in the class. Format won't affect the price much at all.
Oddly enough the molecular programming part (polling the state of the cell, making a decision) will probably prove easier than the traditional part (crafting the drug that actually carries out the decision)
Teslas start at $80k US. The average Tesla is easily $100K and quite a few go out over $120k (all before tax, title, etc.) The majority get at least the bigger battery, tech package, and leather seats; those alone get you close to $100k.
Location data is part of the internet as soon as you do something with it: i.e., plot your position on a map on the internet. Purchasing habits are on the internet if you shop on the internet or you use a credit card and the vendor uses the internet to process the transaction. Cell phone calls are on the internet if either party uses wifi or VOIP calling. I like the lines you are drawing, but I think the situation is more complicated than you acknowledge.
It's not impossible, just much slower if you respect privacy. Start with narrowly defined warrants. Only grab content that matches the warrant. Only start grabbing data after the warrant is issued. Don't keep or examine any data that doesn't match the warrant.
But you agreed to waive your privacy when you signed up for facebook, many email services, and quite possibly some VOIP services. Those services declare from the get go that third parties are allowed to monitor and monetize your communications to a greater or lesser extent. That in turn rules out expectations of privacy as far as federal "law enforcement" goes.
Wired phone calls == private.
letters sealed in an envelope == private..
wireless phone calls == private-ish...
stuff involving a third party parsing your communications (i.e., the internet) == public..
In the US higher ups would be driving $100K Teslas, not Leafs. I'll make 2 guesses: 1. Tesla and other manufacturers would "adjust" the warranties for cars that are used to power buildings; Tesla would probably disallow their guaranteed buyback price as well. Most working age plug-in electric buyers know enough about battery cycling and wear that they would push back against a policy that effectively doubles the wear rate of their batteries, or at least find a software hack that would limit the energy drain severely.
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CA-6 would have Orange County as well as inland San Diego, so it would go Red as well. If Draper wants to pretend it's about Democracy, he should do something about one state having a population of one million and The State Of Greater Los Angeles having 12 million. How about a plan where California is split into N states each of which has roughly 1/N of the population? Oh yeah - that would suck for Republicans.
If Silicon Valley's owners want to own their own senators and state regulatory agencies, they should arrange (pay) for Silicon Valley to be annexed to South Dakota. Silicon Valley would make up the bulk of Silicon Dakota's voters, and SD would still work as an acronym
It's funny when other countries talk about "voting conservative". It's like me in California talking about winter when people from Saskatchewan are in the room.
So which is it 1) reducing child abuse and neglect would decrease the amount of violent crime committed by the victims later in life or 2) would not decrease it?
Because evil bastards don't get cured.
Because Cohiba was talking about causes, not cures.
Naah. Kids started reading freakonomics and quit selling drugs on street corners. Then pot was semi-legalized so they started selling it in storefronts.
Another way to look at it as you can build a $400 PC and then spend $100 to put Windows on it or $0 to put OS X on it. Not really Apple's intention, but it still works fine if you buy parts with that goal in mind.
Why?
Apple used to sell their OS for $20; now 10.9 and all future OS versions are free. Microsoft wants ~ $100+ for Win7/Win8. Microsoft wants $100/year for Office 365.
Will Apple is no saint, Bill Gates was responsible for Microsoft nickeling and diming customers every chance they get.
http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-might-drop-licensing-fees-windows-phone
MS is considering dropping license fees for Windows Phone and Windows RT. So you're ... So it's really ...
So there.
These are projects (TB, cholera, rotavirus, vaccines) that don't generate much revenue for Big Pharma: that's why Big Pharma doesn't often invest in them. Googling "giving away millions of dollars in life-saving medicines", which you put in quotes, comes up with one single result: your comment. The Gates foundation requires that it's research programs share results and that global prices for products using its grant money be kept low. I fully realize Microsoft's contributions to the global IP situation, but do you have a source for what the Gates Foundation is doing to further them?
Tesla doesn't deal with unions in CA either: a lot of the workers used to be UAW but so far there has been no unionization at Fremont. Things can always change though: looks like Volkwagen may become a union shop in Tennessee, though under the German model as opposed to UAW.
Gates is an awesome model for billionaire charity: Warren Buffet likes it so much he is going to donate 85% of his wealth to it. Most of the money goes to biomedical (TB, AIDS, sanitation, fresh water, vaccines, orphan diseases) issues that can't really improve the market for M$ other than through brand management ... and healthier customers.
So when you donate shares to a foundation you control do you still get to vote the shares? Seems like an awesome loophole: you still get to use the voting power of the shares to further your own best interests, not necessarily those of the foundation.
That and assembly jobs start at $12-$16 an hour; they wouldn't save much by moving to a red state.
Bottom line, multivitamins are a good idea unless you keep track of your vitamin intake and eat organically AND exercise once a day like the CDC recommends.
Yet somehow Vitamin D deficiency is the only common deficiency in adults in the US, and isn't fixed by eating organic or exercising (unless you do it outside in the sun). If you're Vitamin D deficient you don't need a multivitamin, you just need a vitamin D supplement or sunlight.
Bread must be tricky - I've left salt out of the dough when baking bread and the loss of flavor is profound. How much can you take out and still get it to taste good? Do some types of bread lend themselves better to low salt versions than others?
In the UK they fortify food but rather than putting a full selection in each food they only put a subset in.
A lot of that has to do with stability, solubility, and flavor. Folic acid is stable to heat so you can put it in flour and it will still be in the bread. Vitamin D is fat soluble: put it in dairy products. Vitamin C breaks down due to heat, light, and , air: put it in a sealed bottle of juice.
Old school chemotherapeutics are a real bitch: knock down your old cancer while potentially giving you a new one. The new antibody/immune therapies are looking pretty amazing, unfortunately with cancer "amazing" still doesn't mean cure.
Salt is iodized.
Folic acid is added to bread, cereals, flour, etc.
Vitamin C is added to juice, along with most other things marketed to kids.
Niacin is added to bread.
Vitamin D and calcium are added to milk and other dairy products.
Cereals (especially sugary ones marketed to kids) are usually fortified with a dozen vitamins and minerals.
You probably won't end up with a vitamin deficiency from eating junk food so long as you don't eat the same few junk foods exclusively. What you'll end up with is a diet with way too much of the wrong stuff.
Vice presidents vote in tie-breakers in the senate, but I think what's relevant to Corn is that they're also pretty influential when gearing up for a run at the presidency.
What happens when the department is told to fill the hole in its budget with revenue from textbook sales? Profs (in the US) are going to come under increasing pressure to use materials that generate revenue for their school.
Not so much now that textbooks are becoming a significant source of revenue for schools. At the university level I think students in the US can look forward to being required to purchase a copy of the textbook through a university-approved source if they want to stay registered in the class. Format won't affect the price much at all.
Oddly enough the molecular programming part (polling the state of the cell, making a decision) will probably prove easier than the traditional part (crafting the drug that actually carries out the decision)
Teslas start at $80k US. The average Tesla is easily $100K and quite a few go out over $120k (all before tax, title, etc.) The majority get at least the bigger battery, tech package, and leather seats; those alone get you close to $100k.
Location data is part of the internet as soon as you do something with it: i.e., plot your position on a map on the internet. Purchasing habits are on the internet if you shop on the internet or you use a credit card and the vendor uses the internet to process the transaction. Cell phone calls are on the internet if either party uses wifi or VOIP calling. I like the lines you are drawing, but I think the situation is more complicated than you acknowledge.
It's not impossible, just much slower if you respect privacy. Start with narrowly defined warrants. Only grab content that matches the warrant. Only start grabbing data after the warrant is issued. Don't keep or examine any data that doesn't match the warrant.
Wired phone calls == private.
letters sealed in an envelope == private..
wireless phone calls == private-ish...
stuff involving a third party parsing your communications (i.e., the internet) == public..
In the US higher ups would be driving $100K Teslas, not Leafs. I'll make 2 guesses: 1. Tesla and other manufacturers would "adjust" the warranties for cars that are used to power buildings; Tesla would probably disallow their guaranteed buyback price as well. Most working age plug-in electric buyers know enough about battery cycling and wear that they would push back against a policy that effectively doubles the wear rate of their batteries, or at least find a software hack that would limit the energy drain severely.