What about the airwaves? How do we determine the ownership of those? Does everyone own the airwaves on their property? Do we choose one private person or company to own *all* the airwaves?
You forget, in LibertarianLand there are only two correct answers: sign the contract and/or sue the #$@#$ out of someone. We can't choose one private person or company to own *all* the airwaves unless EVERYONE signs that contract.
One party has a significant minority that is loudly in favor of regulating markets in a way that gives consumers a fair shake. The other party says "TAX BREAKS WILL LOWER THE PRICE Y'ALL PAY FOR STUFF!" ad nauseum and deep sixes anyone who says different.
One thing to remember when talking about Southern Conservatives is many of them were Democrats only decades ago - they're more Socially Conservative than anything else. Government handouts are frowned upon in group, but separately they all want their own special targeted assistance, call them tax breaks or subsidies or grants if you like, they're all the same, making someone else pay for their aid.
Just remember - the tipping point that switched them from Democrat to Republican was the Civil Rights Act, which passed before most of the Great Society programs. So back when the Dixiecrats were still Democrats most of the government handouts didn't exist yet.
RT tablets don't run native windows applications; the surface Pro models do. IO includes USB 3.0 so pretty much any input option is already supported, but things like wired ethernet are lot more seamless using the docking station. If you need more screen real estate, a full keyboard or whatever: plug them in.
Of course laptops do all these things too, at a much smaller pricepoint. The reason I can see for buying surface pros is now your employees can work wherever they are without having to schlep a laptop bag around.
>No, because we still has constitutional rights back then.
Not really, no.
No right to privacy. No Miranda rights. Voting rights - not enforced. Equal protections for minorities were a fantasy. Plus you could be executed for having the wrong political beliefs (Sacco & Vanzetti) or be forcibly sterilized for all sorts of reasons.
Al Capone had great lawyers and not so great police, prosecutors, and judges in his employ. Anyone who was caught selling or assisting the sale of alcohol and didn't have the protection of someone like Capone was nailed to the wall.
Which is still better than being fatally poisoned by the government - they were allowed to do that back then to stop people from drinking.
Check out SecretAgent (for Firefox). It automatically rotates the user agent string the browser reports through a list of about 50 possibilities. Happens every time you restart the browser. Your browser may be unique today, it may be unique tomorrow, but it won't be identified as the same unique browser both times..
math doesn't argue: if you lose a significant amount of weight (~10% of your bodyweight or more) your basal metabolism drops and your appetite increases: you will burn fewer calories for a given activity level. You undergo hormonal changes related to those experienced by people who are starving. You have to keep the weight off for six months to a year or more before your body considers your situation to be "normal" again. During that time you will burn fewer calories at a given activity level than someone who is identical to you except that they never gained/lost that weight.
So yes, there is a reason it's hard to lose more than a little weight, and it's even harder to keep it off.
Maybe not mangled by machinery, but at Tesla they only pay the people operating that equipment $12-$16 per hour. The techs who repair it won't get much more.
I was thinking of steganography on a very popular site as a way to make a blind drop; further encryption would still be necessary to hide the actual message.
Pharma did have a lot more PhD med chemists than it needed. To the extent the most insightful ones were binned as "too expensive" and the most political ones were chosen to remain they did screw themselves pretty well. But really the big problems were:
-Pharma management was taken over by Wall Street, and an obsession with quarterly reports does not work in a high risk field where it takes 9 years of exponentially increasing costs to determine if a product can be brought to market. They chase the newest shiny thing (management fad, drug target, whatever) since they can glue their name to that accomplishment THIS YEAR, and honestly that is what will get them their annual bonus/promotion.
-For a bunch of reasons (low hanging fruit are gone, increased safety and efficacy regs at the FDA, increasing cost of clinical trials) it is much much more expensive to invent and bring a drug to market than it was 15 years ago. About $4B on average in R&D spending.
For those of you more involved in IT than in Pharma: Pharma laid off more scientists during the 'aughts than were employed in Pharma at anyone time. Unlike IT, the jobs are not coming back. Think big steel in the '70s.
That's actually the sentiment amongst many young students. Why work hard at a STEM major when a business or law degree is likely to result in higher pay and higher social standing?
Scratch law degree. Unless you are able to grind, network, and kiss ass much harder than you would in almost any STEM masters degree program (as well as harder than 95% of your fellow tier I or tier II law school students) you won't be getting one of those fabled six figure associate positions. What? you didn't attend a top tier or top regional tier law school or you didn't rank near the top of your class ? 50% chance you won't get a job in the legal profession at all, at least not for a year or more after graduation. Law schools are now being regularly sued by their graduates for lying about employment prospects
If you're strictly looking for high pay/high social standing: finance/math
Is more water still being added? How much? Do they know? If the level is supposed to stay constant, don't mess with opening a radioactive tank to install a sonar unit, just mount a fluid level sensor on the exterior of the tank.
http://pewa.panasonic.com/assets/acsd/sunx/sensors/discontinued/UA-11.pdf
To heck with country level data. Cities and insurance companies generally have the casualty rate for each intersection - that's the data you need if you wish to avoid traffic accidents or if you're involved in a resulting lawsuit.
A lot of stuff actually appears in racing cars first, and trickles down to high-end cars, then down to every day cars.
I hope flywheel hybrids skip the lux step; they will be a great advance for econoboxes in stop and go traffic. Regenerative braking with up to 80% efficiency, as opposed to ~30% for electric and gas electric hybrids.
The Tesla S is considered an eligable vehicle to use CA's HOV lanes with a single occupant.
And that right there, along with the ability to use the charging station parking spots at work/the mall/etc instead of having to hunt the parking lot like everyone else, is the reason behind a lot of Tesla purchases in CA.
This happens all too often at research universities. Professors develop new technologies funded by the university, then spin off a startup company to patent and exploit the technology for the Professor's personal profit, essentially stealing the initial investments and intellectual property rights from the University, which is funded by the taxpayers.
Nope. Universities are pretty careful about getting patents on their professors' research: it's in the contracts the professors, postdocs and grad students have to sign. The big hubbub about patents on BRCA1 genes a few months ago? The original patents were jointly filed by the University of Utah, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Myriad Genetics. And that was back in the '90s, before the big squeeze on university budgets.
Advertising based on tracking is certainly the centerpoint of these articles - but how about pricing based on tracking? Legalities aside, how do you feel about Amazon choosing the price you personally see for an item based on a tracking model that decides which pricepoints will yield the highest profit from you personally? For one thing, that means the end of comparison shopping websites - they become meaningless if the prices they scrape are not the same as the prices you will have to pay.
But Calo also offers another option: "Imagine," he writes, "if major platforms such as Facebook and Google were obligated, as a matter of law or best practice, to offer a paid version of their service."
I thought about a parallel to that a while ago: imagine having free/paid versions of an app. The paid version has no tracking/advertising, and the price is continually adjusted so that 50% of the users choose to pay and 50% choose advertising/tracking. At that point you would actually know the median value of privacy.
Or you could just dig through the financials of CVS drugstores: you can get a prescription drug discount plan there, but it requires you to waive your HIPAA privacy rights (signature required every year) to access it. It's popularity (if the plan isn't withdrawn because of bad PR) should say much the same thing.
Capital punishment is a touchy subject in CA, but execution by public transportation would certainly obviate the difficulties states face in procuring drugs for lethal injections. However, this particular competition would probably get more popular support if it was proposed for a Dallas-Houston route rather than LA-SF.
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What about the airwaves? How do we determine the ownership of those? Does everyone own the airwaves on their property? Do we choose one private person or company to own *all* the airwaves?
You forget, in LibertarianLand there are only two correct answers: sign the contract and/or sue the #$@#$ out of someone. We can't choose one private person or company to own *all* the airwaves unless EVERYONE signs that contract.
Show me an example of a corporation that has endured without government intervention.
One party has a significant minority that is loudly in favor of regulating markets in a way that gives consumers a fair shake. The other party says "TAX BREAKS WILL LOWER THE PRICE Y'ALL PAY FOR STUFF!" ad nauseum and deep sixes anyone who says different.
One thing to remember when talking about Southern Conservatives is many of them were Democrats only decades ago - they're more Socially Conservative than anything else. Government handouts are frowned upon in group, but separately they all want their own special targeted assistance, call them tax breaks or subsidies or grants if you like, they're all the same, making someone else pay for their aid.
Just remember - the tipping point that switched them from Democrat to Republican was the Civil Rights Act, which passed before most of the Great Society programs. So back when the Dixiecrats were still Democrats most of the government handouts didn't exist yet.
Me too. I can't see buying a surface Pro for myself, at least not unless the price is cut in half.
RT tablets don't run native windows applications; the surface Pro models do. IO includes USB 3.0 so pretty much any input option is already supported, but things like wired ethernet are lot more seamless using the docking station. If you need more screen real estate, a full keyboard or whatever: plug them in. Of course laptops do all these things too, at a much smaller pricepoint. The reason I can see for buying surface pros is now your employees can work wherever they are without having to schlep a laptop bag around.
Not really, no.
No right to privacy. No Miranda rights. Voting rights - not enforced. Equal protections for minorities were a fantasy. Plus you could be executed for having the wrong political beliefs (Sacco & Vanzetti) or be forcibly sterilized for all sorts of reasons. Al Capone had great lawyers and not so great police, prosecutors, and judges in his employ. Anyone who was caught selling or assisting the sale of alcohol and didn't have the protection of someone like Capone was nailed to the wall. Which is still better than being fatally poisoned by the government - they were allowed to do that back then to stop people from drinking.
Check out SecretAgent (for Firefox). It automatically rotates the user agent string the browser reports through a list of about 50 possibilities. Happens every time you restart the browser. Your browser may be unique today, it may be unique tomorrow, but it won't be identified as the same unique browser both times..
math doesn't argue: if you lose a significant amount of weight (~10% of your bodyweight or more) your basal metabolism drops and your appetite increases: you will burn fewer calories for a given activity level. You undergo hormonal changes related to those experienced by people who are starving. You have to keep the weight off for six months to a year or more before your body considers your situation to be "normal" again. During that time you will burn fewer calories at a given activity level than someone who is identical to you except that they never gained/lost that weight. So yes, there is a reason it's hard to lose more than a little weight, and it's even harder to keep it off.
Maybe not mangled by machinery, but at Tesla they only pay the people operating that equipment $12-$16 per hour. The techs who repair it won't get much more.
I was thinking of steganography on a very popular site as a way to make a blind drop; further encryption would still be necessary to hide the actual message.
-Pharma management was taken over by Wall Street, and an obsession with quarterly reports does not work in a high risk field where it takes 9 years of exponentially increasing costs to determine if a product can be brought to market. They chase the newest shiny thing (management fad, drug target, whatever) since they can glue their name to that accomplishment THIS YEAR, and honestly that is what will get them their annual bonus/promotion.
-For a bunch of reasons (low hanging fruit are gone, increased safety and efficacy regs at the FDA, increasing cost of clinical trials) it is much much more expensive to invent and bring a drug to market than it was 15 years ago. About $4B on average in R&D spending.
For those of you more involved in IT than in Pharma: Pharma laid off more scientists during the 'aughts than were employed in Pharma at anyone time. Unlike IT, the jobs are not coming back. Think big steel in the '70s.
That's actually the sentiment amongst many young students. Why work hard at a STEM major when a business or law degree is likely to result in higher pay and higher social standing?
Scratch law degree. Unless you are able to grind, network, and kiss ass much harder than you would in almost any STEM masters degree program (as well as harder than 95% of your fellow tier I or tier II law school students) you won't be getting one of those fabled six figure associate positions. What? you didn't attend a top tier or top regional tier law school or you didn't rank near the top of your class ? 50% chance you won't get a job in the legal profession at all, at least not for a year or more after graduation. Law schools are now being regularly sued by their graduates for lying about employment prospects
If you're strictly looking for high pay/high social standing: finance/math
Is more water still being added? How much? Do they know? If the level is supposed to stay constant, don't mess with opening a radioactive tank to install a sonar unit, just mount a fluid level sensor on the exterior of the tank. http://pewa.panasonic.com/assets/acsd/sunx/sensors/discontinued/UA-11.pdf
So after step two use steganography and post the messages as pics to facebook or instagram?
To heck with country level data. Cities and insurance companies generally have the casualty rate for each intersection - that's the data you need if you wish to avoid traffic accidents or if you're involved in a resulting lawsuit.
The real tests should be reset so that the S gets 3 stars. Then watch everyone else get 1 star for the next 10 years.
Well that's one way to get the NHTSA defunded for the next 10 years.
A lot of stuff actually appears in racing cars first, and trickles down to high-end cars, then down to every day cars.
I hope flywheel hybrids skip the lux step; they will be a great advance for econoboxes in stop and go traffic. Regenerative braking with up to 80% efficiency, as opposed to ~30% for electric and gas electric hybrids.
2010 Active Lane Keeping Assist
Can we call it drunk/sleepy driver assist instead?
Right after Hyperloop.
The Tesla S is considered an eligable vehicle to use CA's HOV lanes with a single occupant.
And that right there, along with the ability to use the charging station parking spots at work/the mall/etc instead of having to hunt the parking lot like everyone else, is the reason behind a lot of Tesla purchases in CA.
Scotland definitely wins in the "good science fiction authors per capita" competition, though I'm not sure that's being held anymore.
This happens all too often at research universities. Professors develop new technologies funded by the university, then spin off a startup company to patent and exploit the technology for the Professor's personal profit, essentially stealing the initial investments and intellectual property rights from the University, which is funded by the taxpayers.
Nope. Universities are pretty careful about getting patents on their professors' research: it's in the contracts the professors, postdocs and grad students have to sign. The big hubbub about patents on BRCA1 genes a few months ago? The original patents were jointly filed by the University of Utah, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Myriad Genetics. And that was back in the '90s, before the big squeeze on university budgets.
But Calo also offers another option: "Imagine," he writes, "if major platforms such as Facebook and Google were obligated, as a matter of law or best practice, to offer a paid version of their service."
I thought about a parallel to that a while ago: imagine having free/paid versions of an app. The paid version has no tracking/advertising, and the price is continually adjusted so that 50% of the users choose to pay and 50% choose advertising/tracking. At that point you would actually know the median value of privacy.
Or you could just dig through the financials of CVS drugstores: you can get a prescription drug discount plan there, but it requires you to waive your HIPAA privacy rights (signature required every year) to access it. It's popularity (if the plan isn't withdrawn because of bad PR) should say much the same thing.
Capital punishment is a touchy subject in CA, but execution by public transportation would certainly obviate the difficulties states face in procuring drugs for lethal injections. However, this particular competition would probably get more popular support if it was proposed for a Dallas-Houston route rather than LA-SF.