It's a nice theory, but I've yet to see it outside electronics. Competition (price) doesn't seem to really exist in established markets, they just take the larger profit and all the others soon follow suit to reap the extra profits. A newcomer/new owner may upset the applecart by competing on price, but the others will use their market position and contacts to stop this. Oligopolies are everywhere and are pretty much as bad for the consumer as monopolies.
Maybe we need the minimum wage locked to a price index so it keeps pace with the cost of living? Then the cost of minimum labour can track with price rises and (maybe) falls.
Yes, maybe the private individual might help the first person for a while, but what about the second, third etc. The idea is laughable. People in these discussions have a real issue with wealth redistribution, but if 0.1% have 99% of the wealth, then some re-allocation is needed. If they're so good at making money, then they can do it again. Seriously how much money do you need? I pay about 30% tax and I'm OK with that as I live in a pleasant society without people living on the streets in cardboard boxes. We know society functions better for ALL members when wealth is reasonably distributed and crime and birth rates both fall.
Exactly, people don't want these jobs because they don't pay enough to live on! The employers will not raise wages to attract workers, they get immigrants legal or otherwise to do them. And they don't really pass on savings from better efficiency, things (except for electronics) cost much more than they used to.
"Easily fight it off"--Yeah right. SARS killed healthy people *because* of their strong immune response! A new virus can cause a very strong reaction from the immune system and you can die from the over-reaction and subsequent effects on your systems, especially the respiratory system.
I was about to say the same thing, I'm sure they could find space in 2.5" for a cap and I damn well would pay more for a drive that is more reliable, I'm looking at you OCZ (13/15 vertex drives have failed here, I'm going to replace them with Intels).
This. A thousand time this! I was doing something for my boss's boss and there were update notifications everywhere, I asked him why they we not being applied and he said they cause problems and slow the machine down! I see it all the time. The other good one is one of our managers who moved GB of photos onto an external HDD to "speed up" her machine, then dropped the HDD onto concrete........
I have to ask, what was the Roman's counter to composite bowfire? They seem to have struggled with mounted archers like the parthians, persians and hun.
Yeah, if you're willing to work in a job where your employer couldn't care less about you and you are OK with your pay not being enough to live on, you can get jobs now..... Why do you think the illegals are in there in the first place?
Not that I'm encouraging this, but a smarter way around it would be to turn on your own micro cellular tower on the truck and then when the units wake up, you can track them and remove them. There is no ongoing signal to cut until the tree is in range of a cellular tower...
The big difference is actually between clearing and logging as in Forestry. If the logging is part of a managed forest and the forest will regrow after a cut which is correct for the type of forest, then it is vastly different from clearing for slash and burn agriculture or development into a new land use. The managed forest will actually be a carbon SINK as the new trees regrow and at least some of the carbon from the harvested trees will be locked up as timber products.
We do have some fairly extreme weather here, and the last three years have been wet, making hazard reduction burns difficult. Now we have lots of fuel and this summer is dry and hot. As the temperature rises, the relative humidity falls and the fine fuels dry out in less than an hour. Then you have a very large fuel load with the fine fuels (grass, twigs, leaves) acting like tinder. All you need then is an ignition source and high winds and you have a major problem.
Wrong term. Backburning is a firefighting technique whereby you burn fuel back into an oncoming fire to deprive it of fuel and create a containment line. I assume you mean hazard reduction burn (HR) where you burn under milder conditions to reduce fuel load later. Australia has had a run of wet summers which had made it hard to burn off (carry out HR burns) and left us with a massive fuel load. Combine that with extreme temperatures in the mid forties, very low humidity and strong winds and you have a tinderbox.
Firefighter with NSW RFS.
Exactly, the three critical classes should be banned for ant use except for human use when the more common ones have failed. Let's keep our big guns armed!
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It's a nice theory, but I've yet to see it outside electronics. Competition (price) doesn't seem to really exist in established markets, they just take the larger profit and all the others soon follow suit to reap the extra profits. A newcomer/new owner may upset the applecart by competing on price, but the others will use their market position and contacts to stop this. Oligopolies are everywhere and are pretty much as bad for the consumer as monopolies.
Maybe we need the minimum wage locked to a price index so it keeps pace with the cost of living? Then the cost of minimum labour can track with price rises and (maybe) falls.
Yes, maybe the private individual might help the first person for a while, but what about the second, third etc. The idea is laughable. People in these discussions have a real issue with wealth redistribution, but if 0.1% have 99% of the wealth, then some re-allocation is needed. If they're so good at making money, then they can do it again. Seriously how much money do you need? I pay about 30% tax and I'm OK with that as I live in a pleasant society without people living on the streets in cardboard boxes. We know society functions better for ALL members when wealth is reasonably distributed and crime and birth rates both fall.
Food prices have increased! Especially for good food, not sugar laden crap.
Except goods don't get cheaper. The owner gets bigger profits, there is no incentive to lower prices.
Exactly, people don't want these jobs because they don't pay enough to live on! The employers will not raise wages to attract workers, they get immigrants legal or otherwise to do them. And they don't really pass on savings from better efficiency, things (except for electronics) cost much more than they used to.
"Easily fight it off"--Yeah right. SARS killed healthy people *because* of their strong immune response! A new virus can cause a very strong reaction from the immune system and you can die from the over-reaction and subsequent effects on your systems, especially the respiratory system.
citation needed.
I have a MGE Pulsar extreme 1000c that's been awesome! Wasn't impressed with the APC before it....
Anyone with access to the article? What are the results, which ones didn't lose data, which one bricked?!
I was about to say the same thing, I'm sure they could find space in 2.5" for a cap and I damn well would pay more for a drive that is more reliable, I'm looking at you OCZ (13/15 vertex drives have failed here, I'm going to replace them with Intels).
How big is this thing and what effects will an impact or an atmospheric skim have on Mars?
This. A thousand time this! I was doing something for my boss's boss and there were update notifications everywhere, I asked him why they we not being applied and he said they cause problems and slow the machine down! I see it all the time. The other good one is one of our managers who moved GB of photos onto an external HDD to "speed up" her machine, then dropped the HDD onto concrete........
I have to ask, what was the Roman's counter to composite bowfire? They seem to have struggled with mounted archers like the parthians, persians and hun.
Yes, you would need a rocket Cesna! Load up with LOX and rocket fuel and away you go, may need looong runway and perhaps a ski-jump to get airborne!
Yeah, if you're willing to work in a job where your employer couldn't care less about you and you are OK with your pay not being enough to live on, you can get jobs now..... Why do you think the illegals are in there in the first place?
Not that I'm encouraging this, but a smarter way around it would be to turn on your own micro cellular tower on the truck and then when the units wake up, you can track them and remove them. There is no ongoing signal to cut until the tree is in range of a cellular tower...
The big difference is actually between clearing and logging as in Forestry. If the logging is part of a managed forest and the forest will regrow after a cut which is correct for the type of forest, then it is vastly different from clearing for slash and burn agriculture or development into a new land use. The managed forest will actually be a carbon SINK as the new trees regrow and at least some of the carbon from the harvested trees will be locked up as timber products.
We do have some fairly extreme weather here, and the last three years have been wet, making hazard reduction burns difficult. Now we have lots of fuel and this summer is dry and hot. As the temperature rises, the relative humidity falls and the fine fuels dry out in less than an hour. Then you have a very large fuel load with the fine fuels (grass, twigs, leaves) acting like tinder. All you need then is an ignition source and high winds and you have a major problem.
Wrong term. Backburning is a firefighting technique whereby you burn fuel back into an oncoming fire to deprive it of fuel and create a containment line. I assume you mean hazard reduction burn (HR) where you burn under milder conditions to reduce fuel load later. Australia has had a run of wet summers which had made it hard to burn off (carry out HR burns) and left us with a massive fuel load. Combine that with extreme temperatures in the mid forties, very low humidity and strong winds and you have a tinderbox. Firefighter with NSW RFS.
Exactly, the three critical classes should be banned for ant use except for human use when the more common ones have failed. Let's keep our big guns armed!
Wireless communication: If you mean WiFi, Australian invention/commercialisation, CSIRO made it work.
Are they translucent/transparent? It'd be awesome to put these onto windows, especially ones where some privacy is desirable.
So the new altered T cells can reproduce themselves? How hard would it be to have nerfed ones with limited lifespans and no ability to reproduce?
Agreed, I eat a low card-high protein diet now, but it'd be nice to change gut flora and enjoy desert without thinking about it wouldn't it?