The summary is a troll, of course. No biologist or even halfway educated layperson would make the statement that that BT toxin is the final solution to insect predators.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is following the same pattern as the loss of farming jobs. Scale of automation is eliminating the jobs that require only machines to do them. Right now only 8% of the US population is engaged in making things. The productivity of this 8% is staggering of course. Capitalism at it's best.
China is hampered by its cheap labor - it is far less attractive to automate when wages are terribly low. However as Chinese wages increase it will be increasingly attractive to automate, and of course China will lose manufacturing jobs to lower wage countries.
Strictly speaking industry in the United States did not engage in patent infringement because the British did not own US patents on the technology you described.
Nor were there copyright treaties in place at that time.
In fact most of the copying of British manufacturing technology came about because of the war of 1812 and the British blockades and trade restrictions that prevented manufactured goods from outside the US from entering the country during the period following the revolution. This of course required the US to improvise mightily in moving its agrarian economy to one that included manufacturing capability.
It is ridiculous to expect in periods of blockade and wartime for the US to observe British patents when the British were in fact engaging in forcible measures designed to destroy the US government and restore the US as a colony.
Security critical environments are generally constructed so that software is not trusted to be secure unless it goes through a very careful vetting process. So it really doesn't matter.
It depends on your employment contract. In some cases anything you create while an employee belongs to your employer. In other cases if the creation is related to your job in any way it belongs to your employer. Another possibility is that if you used equipment owned by your employer to create your thing, you may be obligated to give your employer a license to the item.
There are other questions here - are you an hourly or salaried employee? Salaried employees generally don't have fixed working hours to the same extent hourly employees do.
Then finally it seems to me that there is an issue of what you feel your relationship to your employer is. Maybe I am a bit old fashioned, but my general opinion is that regardless of what your pay level is you should be using your entire skillset in service of your employer. One thing I know for sure that if an employee of mine presented me with a proposition like you are entertaining I would be pretty unhappy. However if you volunteered something like this I'd be talking to you about possible expansion of your role in this company.
Mod parent down. It is totally stupid. The US was not founded on religion, and in fact there are historical facts to back the fact it wasn't.
First Amendment: Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion
The word God does not appear in the Constitution.
James Madison author of the Constitution wrote:
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
From the Treaty of Tripoli late 18th century:
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
- You need a billion US$ campaign funds to have a chance
So? The US is a big country. It takes a lot to get your message out. It's not some piss ant Euro country the size of one US state. It would be like electing a president of all of Europe.
- Heriditary tendencies for seats in congress/senate
Bullshit. There are few cases where these seats are inherited from family members. Currently it is 15 out of the total of 535. Three percent.
Manufacturing is quite a good business if you stay out of sheep retail crap like assembly of iPhones.
The USA is still the largest manufacturing country in the world based on the value of good produced. With only 8% or so of the population engaged in making stuff.
It's because the US makes things like airliners, heavy earth movers, CPUs and so on.
Libraries are all about maintaining collections and providing a catalog that allows you to find things in addition to allowing their customers to borrow books.
A hodgepodge of internet crap is not equivalent to a library.
There is a minimum benefit. And yes it is based on highest earning years - 35 of them. One good decade isn't enough. If you were unemployed for 20 years it is pretty damn likely it would affect your benefit.
SS is also hurt by a slow economy. If you don't have a job, you don't pay into SS. If you make less money, SS get less money.
Yes, but since your benefits are tied to your earnings, SS will have to pay out less too.
Ultimately I think SS will be fixed by lifting the cap on the amount of salary that is subject to payroll taxes and an increase in retirement age.
The real problem is Medicare. There is no way that can be fixed with a really drastic change in the US healthcare system, something that has been shown to be a very hard thing to do.
Blowing up US planes has been tried four times since 9/11. Each time it has failed because of intelligence, in-flight security or passenger action.
The TSA however been hasn't shown to be worth jack shit let alone a trillion dollars. They haven't stopped or prevented anything.
Passengers who responded in these situation got the full-blown hero treatment in the media. Every now and then the Flight 93 movies and documentaries are rebroadcast which further drives home the message.
IMHO the reason you don't see it much is that it doesn't work any more, not that terrorists don't want to do it. All it does is make heroes of ordinary people, which is not the result terrorists want.
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The summary is a troll, of course. No biologist or even halfway educated layperson would make the statement that that BT toxin is the final solution to insect predators.
Maybe that will put an end to Peru's cholera epidemics (common because Greenpeace convinced them to stop chlorinating their water).
The loss of manufacturing jobs is following the same pattern as the loss of farming jobs. Scale of automation is eliminating the jobs that require only machines to do them. Right now only 8% of the US population is engaged in making things. The productivity of this 8% is staggering of course. Capitalism at it's best.
China is hampered by its cheap labor - it is far less attractive to automate when wages are terribly low. However as Chinese wages increase it will be increasingly attractive to automate, and of course China will lose manufacturing jobs to lower wage countries.
Strictly speaking industry in the United States did not engage in patent infringement because the British did not own US patents on the technology you described.
Nor were there copyright treaties in place at that time.
In fact most of the copying of British manufacturing technology came about because of the war of 1812 and the British blockades and trade restrictions that prevented manufactured goods from outside the US from entering the country during the period following the revolution. This of course required the US to improvise mightily in moving its agrarian economy to one that included manufacturing capability.
It is ridiculous to expect in periods of blockade and wartime for the US to observe British patents when the British were in fact engaging in forcible measures designed to destroy the US government and restore the US as a colony.
Your historical analogy is not valid.
Exactly right. You don't trust software, period.
Example: Critical systems are not connected to the internet.
Security critical environments are generally constructed so that software is not trusted to be secure unless it goes through a very careful vetting process. So it really doesn't matter.
It depends on your employment contract. In some cases anything you create while an employee belongs to your employer. In other cases if the creation is related to your job in any way it belongs to your employer. Another possibility is that if you used equipment owned by your employer to create your thing, you may be obligated to give your employer a license to the item.
There are other questions here - are you an hourly or salaried employee? Salaried employees generally don't have fixed working hours to the same extent hourly employees do.
Then finally it seems to me that there is an issue of what you feel your relationship to your employer is. Maybe I am a bit old fashioned, but my general opinion is that regardless of what your pay level is you should be using your entire skillset in service of your employer. One thing I know for sure that if an employee of mine presented me with a proposition like you are entertaining I would be pretty unhappy. However if you volunteered something like this I'd be talking to you about possible expansion of your role in this company.
The votes were recounted several times by hand after the elections, including during the study I referenced. The fact is that Bush won.
I hate that result, but it is the way things ended up.
Really? Do you have a reference for that? AFAIK the US Government does NOT ban the use of Chinese electronics in government or defense applications.
Mod parent down. It is totally stupid. The US was not founded on religion, and in fact there are historical facts to back the fact it wasn't.
First Amendment: Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion
The word God does not appear in the Constitution.
James Madison author of the Constitution wrote:
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
From the Treaty of Tripoli late 18th century:
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
- about 30% voter turnout
In presidential election years it is more like 58%, twice your claim. And better yet the turnout numbers have been trending up.
- Election looser becomes president (2000)
The 2000 results have been the most studied in US history, and guess what the studies have shown Bush really did win.
Here's one:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
- You need a billion US$ campaign funds to have a chance
So? The US is a big country. It takes a lot to get your message out. It's not some piss ant Euro country the size of one US state. It would be like electing a president of all of Europe.
- Heriditary tendencies for seats in congress/senate
Bullshit. There are few cases where these seats are inherited from family members. Currently it is 15 out of the total of 535. Three percent.
Congratulations. You have found the one thing in the entire multiverse that sucks more than BASIC.
Please let us have something better.
Manufacturing is quite a good business if you stay out of sheep retail crap like assembly of iPhones.
The USA is still the largest manufacturing country in the world based on the value of good produced. With only 8% or so of the population engaged in making stuff.
It's because the US makes things like airliners, heavy earth movers, CPUs and so on.
Libraries are all about maintaining collections and providing a catalog that allows you to find things in addition to allowing their customers to borrow books.
A hodgepodge of internet crap is not equivalent to a library.
It did say rough surface.
There is a minimum benefit. And yes it is based on highest earning years - 35 of them. One good decade isn't enough. If you were unemployed for 20 years it is pretty damn likely it would affect your benefit.
That's hardly insightful, more like off-topic as I wasn't making a comment about other people, rather what seemed insightful to me.
One side of the moon is ALWAYS dark. Just like one side of the Earth.
Crimminey.
Obama never said WEEKLY. He said $40 per paycheck for a family that earns 50,000.
Do the math. That's biweekly. Most people get paychecks biweekly. Duh.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/obama-40-can-make-all-the-difference-in-the-world/1
All the news stories got it right.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/putting-a-human-face-on-the-payroll-tax-numbers/
Seems more like "intuitively obvious to the casual observer" than "insightful" to me.
SS is also hurt by a slow economy. If you don't have a job, you don't pay into SS. If you make less money, SS get less money.
Yes, but since your benefits are tied to your earnings, SS will have to pay out less too.
Ultimately I think SS will be fixed by lifting the cap on the amount of salary that is subject to payroll taxes and an increase in retirement age.
The real problem is Medicare. There is no way that can be fixed with a really drastic change in the US healthcare system, something that has been shown to be a very hard thing to do.
Most people get paid every two weeks, which is the basis used to come up with the $40. Not weekly.
Also the House got beat up justifiably. The one year extension they passed included stuff like unemployment insurance duration cuts.
Blowing up US planes has been tried four times since 9/11. Each time it has failed because of intelligence, in-flight security or passenger action.
The TSA however been hasn't shown to be worth jack shit let alone a trillion dollars. They haven't stopped or prevented anything.
Passengers who responded in these situation got the full-blown hero treatment in the media. Every now and then the Flight 93 movies and documentaries are rebroadcast which further drives home the message.
IMHO the reason you don't see it much is that it doesn't work any more, not that terrorists don't want to do it. All it does is make heroes of ordinary people, which is not the result terrorists want.
Or somewhere similar in space.
These patents are being filed in the Chinese patent system.
Enforcement in China? Priceless.