Yes, you should care. The financial markets are the major source of funding for both private and public projects. Without it businesses and governments would be unable to raise the capital needed for any number of the basic structural needs of modern society. When your local town wants to raise money for a new school, or a new water treatment plant where do you think the bonds for it are sold?
The idea that it is a casino + horse race is something promulgated by the popular media who know little or nothing about the real nature of these markets or the economic system they live in.
1. You need to be a married gay couple. 2. Who moves to a state which uses DOMA to ignore your homosexual marriage. 3. Which then causes you to be harmed in some substantial way.
People have been trying to recruit such a couple to challenge DOMA part 2. Nothing has come up.
Requiring the executive to defend laws established by Congress is a clear violation of separation of powers. How do you have a independent executive if it has to dance to every action of Congress?
You can bet your sweet bippy that the Founders had no such idea in mind when they set up the Constitution.
> So what curve is the Laffer curve? It can have multiple maxima, it can be asymmetric, the peak can range between 32% and 70%
Just recognition there there is a curve is a good starting point. The shape depends on a lot of factors in yet unknown ways which makes policy debates interesting.
However the endpoints are known. One point is at zero taxes, which of course means no revenues. The other point is 100% taxes, which is what Genghis Khan experimented with when he razed conquered cities and exterminated their populations. Again no revenues.
Eventually Genghis Khan got an economic adviser who explained the concept of taxation to him, so stopping this practice.
That there should be a similar curve for patents seems reasonable. After all the Industrial Revolution didn't really take off until after the Brits adopted a patent system. And I think most people feel things have gone too far now.
If you have spent time working in industrial research and development you would realize that the lack of patent protection for real innovations would be detrimental to investment in technology.
Companies don't like investing large sums of money in anything and getting nothing out of it.
Because the controls on the information were ridiculously bad. I mean these guys were walking in with blank media and out with the media full of secret information.
Public Law 107-40 does not mention al Qaida or identify any specific enemy. It is useless for the purpose of trying to prove treason.
Treason requires not mere revelation of information or provision of aid, but an actual intentional betrayal of loyalty. Snowden did not engage in this.
1. A method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of: creating a message at a first computer, said message including a reference to a predetermined location; transmitting, by the first computer, said message to a second location; and receiving said message by a computer at the second location; decoding said message by the computer at the second location by retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single application, without requiring user interaction, into the computer at the second location.
So actually this looks like a dandy malware vector. Send an email with a link; the receiver then downloads the content from the link without human intervention.
You are engaging in sophistry. It is not possible to examine every wheat plant in the US so we have to use inductive logic to come to a conclusions as to the extent of the contamination.
The conclusion that the USDA came to was that there is contamination in one location. Which they told us about.
Untold has two main meanings:
1. Not told or related. 2. Incalculable or vast.
The situation here fits neither of these definitions.
Actually from reading the article it was the KKK that called the FBI. Talk about strange bedfellows.
""Crawford has specifically identified Muslims and several other individuals/groups as targets," investigator Geoffrey Kent said in a court affidavit. According to the indictment, Crawford also traveled to North Carolina in October to solicit money for the weapon from a ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, who informed the FBI. Crawford claimed to be a member."
The FBI led the pair along for a while by supplying parts and money to build the device.
The Green Revolution saved billions from famine and disease. As scientific understanding of the process and technology improve leading to improved sustainability. Current systems are very wasteful; some 30-40% of all food ends up not being consumed. RIGHT NOW we produce enough for estimated stable long term population levels of the planet.
In the meantime birth rates in human populations are declining due to the overall economic improvements. Some areas are even experiencing sub replacement birth rates.
Nonsense. The idea that Monsanto has a monopoly is flat out wrong.
There are several major crops where Monsanto has a lot of competition, and others where Monsanto doesn't even offer products. Corn, which is Monsanto's biggest product has a 40% market share.
In only soybeans could you say they have a monopoly. And the first generation patent that gives Monsanto the edge in this market expires in 2014.
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Yes, you should care. The financial markets are the major source of funding for both private and public projects. Without it businesses and governments would be unable to raise the capital needed for any number of the basic structural needs of modern society. When your local town wants to raise money for a new school, or a new water treatment plant where do you think the bonds for it are sold?
The idea that it is a casino + horse race is something promulgated by the popular media who know little or nothing about the real nature of these markets or the economic system they live in.
1. You need to be a married gay couple.
2. Who moves to a state which uses DOMA to ignore your homosexual marriage.
3. Which then causes you to be harmed in some substantial way.
People have been trying to recruit such a couple to challenge DOMA part 2. Nothing has come up.
Requiring the executive to defend laws established by Congress is a clear violation of separation of powers. How do you have a independent executive if it has to dance to every action of Congress?
You can bet your sweet bippy that the Founders had no such idea in mind when they set up the Constitution.
Yes, it's awful, but few people are affected by it.
As a result there hasn't been anyone who has been able to develop standing to bring a case against it.
Oh yes. Hot chixors. Looking for a guy who will be able to get a job after graduation.
I miss that now that I'm out of school.
1. Not that recent. Started with the industrial revolution.
2. The levels are still single digit ppm while CO2 levels are hundreds of ppm.
Even with a factor of 20 it's still less than 10% of the effect of CO2.
Well, you can renounce your US citizenship if you get tired of it.
> So what curve is the Laffer curve? It can have multiple maxima, it can be asymmetric, the peak can range between 32% and 70%
Just recognition there there is a curve is a good starting point. The shape depends on a lot of factors in yet unknown ways which makes policy debates interesting.
However the endpoints are known. One point is at zero taxes, which of course means no revenues. The other point is 100% taxes, which is what Genghis Khan experimented with when he razed conquered cities and exterminated their populations. Again no revenues.
Eventually Genghis Khan got an economic adviser who explained the concept of taxation to him, so stopping this practice.
That there should be a similar curve for patents seems reasonable. After all the Industrial Revolution didn't really take off until after the Brits adopted a patent system. And I think most people feel things have gone too far now.
So lets have the policy debates.
If you have spent time working in industrial research and development you would realize that the lack of patent protection for real innovations would be detrimental to investment in technology.
Companies don't like investing large sums of money in anything and getting nothing out of it.
Because the controls on the information were ridiculously bad. I mean these guys were walking in with blank media and out with the media full of secret information.
Totally incompetent OPSEC.
Complete utter horseshit.
Civilian contractors sign a non-disclosure agreement form SF-312 after being cleared and getting briefed on their obligations.
That's it.
Public Law 107-40 does not mention al Qaida or identify any specific enemy. It is useless for the purpose of trying to prove treason.
Treason requires not mere revelation of information or provision of aid, but an actual intentional betrayal of loyalty. Snowden did not engage in this.
You may want to study the following.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/2195/Treason-Elements-offense.html
From which the salient point is:
"In treason cases, however, the prosecution must prove that the accused had a specific intent to levy war or aid enemies."
Huh? He certainly didn't levy war. As far as adhering to enemies, please identify which enemies he adhered to.
There is NO case for treason here.
No treason is extremely narrowly defined. Even the Rosenbergs, who found guilty of giving the Russkies A Bomb secrets were not charged with treason.
The last American citizen to be convicted of treason was found guilty of torturing American POWs in Japan during WWII.
> Does 'spy' mean 'embarrassing to the government'?
That's one of the traditional meanings.
Spy:
1. Steals secrets from one government to give to another for military or economic advantage.
2. Steals and reveals embarrassing secrets.
Ellsburg though got off because he was illegally wiretapped. I don't know if that's possible any more.
Fermilab does a lot of research in exascale applications.
http://sc12.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=post171
http://computing.ornl.gov/workshops/scidac2010/presentations/j_amundson.pdf
This guy's home district includes Fermilab, which has an exascale computer program.
It's just another bridge to nowhere.
This is the actual material being contested:
1. A method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of:
creating a message at a first computer, said message including a reference to a predetermined location;
transmitting, by the first computer, said message to a second location; and
receiving said message by a computer at the second location;
decoding said message by the computer at the second location by retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single application, without requiring user interaction, into the computer at the second location.
So actually this looks like a dandy malware vector. Send an email with a link; the receiver then downloads the content from the link without human intervention.
I'd be upset if my email client was doing this.
You are engaging in sophistry. It is not possible to examine every wheat plant in the US so we have to use inductive logic to come to a conclusions as to the extent of the contamination.
The conclusion that the USDA came to was that there is contamination in one location. Which they told us about.
Untold has two main meanings:
1. Not told or related.
2. Incalculable or vast.
The situation here fits neither of these definitions.
Benq is in the process of introducing non-PWM flicker free backlight LED monitors.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/28.htm#benq_bl2710pt
Does reviews that include assessments of PWM in monitors. Very recommended.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/
Actually from reading the article it was the KKK that called the FBI. Talk about strange bedfellows.
""Crawford has specifically identified Muslims and several other individuals/groups as targets," investigator Geoffrey Kent said in a court affidavit. According to the indictment, Crawford also traveled to North Carolina in October to solicit money for the weapon from a ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, who informed the FBI. Crawford claimed to be a member."
The FBI led the pair along for a while by supplying parts and money to build the device.
Um no, they found one plot and told us about it.
http://news.yahoo.com/usda-modified-wheat-appears-isolated-205944372.html
No other cases have been found.
The Green Revolution saved billions from famine and disease. As scientific understanding of the process and technology improve leading to improved sustainability. Current systems are very wasteful; some 30-40% of all food ends up not being consumed. RIGHT NOW we produce enough for estimated stable long term population levels of the planet.
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_sd21st/21_pdf/agriculture_and_food_the_future_of_sustainability_web.pdf
In the meantime birth rates in human populations are declining due to the overall economic improvements. Some areas are even experiencing sub replacement birth rates.
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf
I'm not calling objection hysteria. I'm calling statements like "untold acres" when one plot was found hysteria.
Nonsense. The idea that Monsanto has a monopoly is flat out wrong.
There are several major crops where Monsanto has a lot of competition, and others where Monsanto doesn't even offer products. Corn, which is Monsanto's biggest product has a 40% market share.
In only soybeans could you say they have a monopoly. And the first generation patent that gives Monsanto the edge in this market expires in 2014.
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/roundup-ready-patent-expiration.aspx