The U.S. billionaires have a combined wealth of about $1.4 trillion.
Medicare and social security spending last year was about $1.15 trillion (those aren't actually particularly good proxies for 'not wealthy', but they do illustrate where a good chunk of the U.S. GDP goes). It is somewhat safe to assume that poor and middle class people spent $4 or $5 trillion.
So the super wealthy certainly benefit more than everyone else, but it is absurd to assert that they are keeping other people poor when their combined wealth, earned over lifetimes, is much less than 'normal' (by any reasonable measure) Americans spend each year.
I'm not sure I would worry too much about burning a couple of square miles here or there to build another site similar to Ludington; the effects certainly aren't benign, but they are well understood, and the world is a big place.
It removes one 'incentive' for testing (the government requiring testing is really more of a requirement than an incentive). It doesn't remove incentives like certification by an independent body (say, the AMA or whatever, maybe they aren't independent enough).
(The notion being that the certified treatments would be more reliable, and thus easier to sell)
If the cards have decent security features, there is at least a chance that they would make it a lot easier to blame the financial institution when they opened an account for someone using a fake card.
I think it is almost impossible that Newegg as a whole was engaged in doing this, I was just pointing out that it could still be internal to Newegg, if, for example, a disgruntled employee was doing it.
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If unemployment is 20%, most people are still doing just fine.
The U.S. billionaires have a combined wealth of about $1.4 trillion.
Medicare and social security spending last year was about $1.15 trillion (those aren't actually particularly good proxies for 'not wealthy', but they do illustrate where a good chunk of the U.S. GDP goes). It is somewhat safe to assume that poor and middle class people spent $4 or $5 trillion.
So the super wealthy certainly benefit more than everyone else, but it is absurd to assert that they are keeping other people poor when their combined wealth, earned over lifetimes, is much less than 'normal' (by any reasonable measure) Americans spend each year.
Anyone who had money (or put money) in stocks last spring had a nice 2009.
(Well, unless they concentrated that money in a few bad choices)
The pumped storage power plant in Ludington Michigan is 1.8 Gigawatts, so maybe they are being a bit pessimistic about siting problems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_Plant
http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=43.889975,-86.41468&spn=0.114557,0.22831&t=h&z=12
There is another 0.24 Gigawatts at Niagara:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses_Niagara_Power_Plant#Pumped_storage
I'm not sure I would worry too much about burning a couple of square miles here or there to build another site similar to Ludington; the effects certainly aren't benign, but they are well understood, and the world is a big place.
Please recycle.
Well, the end game is paintball where your opponents look like the monsters from Doom.
Or whatever.
Our mad scientists are working on technologies with potential military applications.
They acknowledged that they had shipped non functional units on Friday:
http://twitter.com/Newegg/status/10050889498
They probably would have done better to say less, but they never denied the issue entirely.
Take a closer look at the page? Does it say Disney on it?
Many of Disney's properties have their web presence on go.com. For instance:
http://abc.go.com/
(and someone already pointed out ESPN)
It removes one 'incentive' for testing (the government requiring testing is really more of a requirement than an incentive). It doesn't remove incentives like certification by an independent body (say, the AMA or whatever, maybe they aren't independent enough).
(The notion being that the certified treatments would be more reliable, and thus easier to sell)
It's always promising when considerable life experience leads to sweeping generalizations.
It sort of sounds like wherever you go, you spend a lot of time with assholes.
How do the moral arguments change with the efficacy of the treatments?
Are there really people who believe the lump of cells has a soul, but it is okay to destroy it to fix cancer in papa?
That being a resident of New York isn't a predictor of who will benefit from a kinetic charger?
Is that because the people in the places you name are furiously masturbating over their alleged superiority?
I bet there are more obese people in New York City than there are people in Wyoming.
1 man, 1,000 hamburgers, Proof!
If the cards have decent security features, there is at least a chance that they would make it a lot easier to blame the financial institution when they opened an account for someone using a fake card.
I think it is almost impossible that Newegg as a whole was engaged in doing this, I was just pointing out that it could still be internal to Newegg, if, for example, a disgruntled employee was doing it.
It's really too bad Victor Frankenstein is dead.
The thing you call a logical conclusion isn't.
Barring a disruptive change in electric prices, there is no reason to expect new capacity to cost more, and several reasons to expect it to cost less.
It doesn't quite 'take up' all that land.
Thus repeating the demonstration of how very unlikely it is for something to be original.
Because most people don't have stuff that justifies the cost (after they factor in the (un)likelihood of getting burgled).
The default state of a sphincter is, arguably, not 'orifice'.
(It is also fairly unlikely that all of the various constrictions between the mouth and anus would be open simultaneously)
It all hinges on the topological properties of a sphincter.