If the celestial body is owned by a private individual then it technically isn't available for the use of all states. It would seem to me that would violate the treaty.
Criminalizing alcohol will lead to overdoses. I can go down to beer store pick up a bottle of beer and feel confident that it was properly made. ie Pasteurized (I think), no impurities or harmful substances, and correct alcohol percentage.
If alcohol was illegal. I'd be going to buy alcohol from some back alley dealer. The alcohol could actually be moonshine made in some guys tub, fill with impurities and toxins, and maybe 98% percent alcohol. That might kill me.
It's the same with any other drug. The US "War on Drugs" is one of the most misguided and harmful (socially and economically) pieces of legislation on the planet.
Why are more than a million americans behind bars on marijuana charges!!. That's among americans removed from the labour force because they wanted to sit and smoke a joint. Stupid.
Have you taken an economics course, know anything about supply and demand. The "War on Drugs" was so succesful in eliminating supply that the price of marijuana sky-rocketed. Cocaine, heroine, and other harsh drugs suddenly became relatively cheaper and more popular.
I don't do drugs (well, illegal ones anyway). And don't plan to even if they are made legal. But ending this silly "War on Drugs" is probably about the best thing the US could do to improve its social welfare.
I make ~$40K Canadian. That's more than enough to support myself. Big apartment, big tv, fancy speakers, reasonably expensive hobbies, nights on the town. And that's about half of $52K US.
If you can't support one person on $52K I think you need to re-evaluate your lifestyle.
It isn't the Rio/HD manufacturers who are making up terms. I don't know who it was, but at some point someone thought that 1024 bytes was close enough 1000 that could call 1024bytes a kilobyte. That's person who made up a term. The manufacturers are using a completely standard mathmatic/scientific standard to measure things.
Dude. Ever seen Monty Python's life of Brian? Seen the scene at the end in which the guys on crosses start singing "Look on the bright side of life"?
That, dude, is called optimism. You'll seriously be much happier if you try it sometime. Instead of bitching and complaining that someone has more than you, be happy with what you've got. If ya ain't happy with what ya got now, then you'll never be happy, as there's always going to be something you don't have.
Ummm, Dude. I'd just let things drop if I you were you, there's no way you're coming out of this arguement ahead.
All too often I come across people who have never studied economics or finance, yet none-the-less are extremely opinionated on the matter. There "theories" are usually dereft of reason, but no amount of logic and facts will convince them of out.
Look for the people shouting loudest at the anti-trade/globalization shingdings. You'll see what I mean.
So go out and be your own boss.Have good ideas and then make money off them. That's how to make lots of money.
Yes it's risky, yes there's no steady salary, yes you've risked your life savings, yes for every one that makes it big there's a score that crash and burn.
But it is probably the best (maybe the only) way to become rich. Some old proveb about those who risk a lot get a lot.
That being said, I'm very comfortable with my nice steady job. Will I become rich? No, most likely not. Do I care? No, I don't need to be rich to be happy.
Sun is not cheap. Any serious (non-intel) Sun workstation will set you back in th $10K range last I checked. And don't even go into the prices they're charging for server class equipment. You are getting something for the that money, but it is damn expensive
If Sun's current pricing isn't serious I'd hate to see what you think it should be.
Several billion dollars will not suddenly vanish from the US economy. People will spend their money in other ways or put in the banks (which then invest it). Only if everyone takes the money and sticks it under their mattresses will it make any difference.
All money theoretically should be spent with the to get something out of it. Is defense spending the most productive way to get something though. Defense spending is not investment spending.
Investment spending is to invest money in public infrastructure, education, health, etc. Now by investing in these sorts of programs it is expected that some years down the road the money spend will pay itself many times over. However, when the military spends money on rockets, the money is sunk. The country doesn't get anything back from the spent money.
One of the major problems with the Reagan era was that his goverment borrowed huge amounts of money and spent it on the military. That money is going to have to be repaid, and the country doesn't have anything to show for it. It's economy has really grown that much because of the borrowed. Instead if the government had spend it wisely, the money that has to be paid back would have been insignificant compared to positive economic it could have had.
Yes, military spending can, and has, lead to extremely beneficial consequences that have helped the country grow. But these aren't the point nor the goal of military research, and so from both policy and common sense views should be ignored when deciding how to best spend money.
Amnesty International is indeed an admirable organization, which has over the years done much to increase the welfare of humans across the globe. However sometimes it engages in rather silly attack-the-pig-dog-capitalist campaigns which only serve to tarnish it's image and undermine it's credibility.
Unfortunately it's much the same way with Greenpeace. I used to have tremendous respect for them, but thanks to their recent stunts wrt to WTO/globlization issues they now rank only somewhere slightly above PETA. And it's a shame that good causes are undermined like that.
If it is possible brute force a a password crack (either because the cracker has a copy of the encrypted password or because they are allowed to repeatedly try passwords), then changing passwords frequently is required for security. Yes, it really does matter.
Let's pretend you have a password for a system and a cracker gets ahold of the encrypted password. The cracker has to spend x time decrypting the password. If you change you password halfway through, then the password the cracker gets is now invalid. They have to start all over again with the new password.
Because no password is uncrackable. One issue about cryptography is that things don't have to be uncrackable, so long as by the time they are cracked it is irrelevant.
If it's possible to crack your password in 7 months but you change it every 6, then the cracked password is useless. If you never change your password it can always be cracked.
Yeah, but how much entertainment can you get out of one DVD. I can't watch the same movie more than a couple times a year (even the really good ones), but a good CD will spend long periods of time in my CD changer. Plus i can listen at work.
This has alreadly been done. Someone took a breakdown of all the raw materials in the human body. In the end it was something like a couple of dollars.
On a per capita basis America spends much more one health than other developed countries (such as Canada, as another poster commented). And that's if you distribute costs equally over the the entire population, even though 25% don't have any medical coverage.
There is definitely some padding and inefficiencies there. Why for instance, do drug companies need to market their drugs to the public. The people issuing the prescriptions are doctors. Drug advertising is creating artificial demand. People see the adds and then pester physicians to prescribe the drugs even if they aren't actually needed.
If the cost of something isn't something that directly and conspicuously affects them, then the cost doesn't exist. Sorry, a market economy doesn't work that way.
Actually that's exactly how market economies work. Consumers and producers will act in a manner that makes them better off. Externalities affecting other parties don't factor into the equation. That's why we have governments and laws to regulate industry.
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If the celestial body is owned by a private individual then it technically isn't available for the use of all states. It would seem to me that would violate the treaty.
As a matter of fact you will be forced to buy one. That's whole point of the mandated HDTV in a couple year isn't it?
Criminalizing alcohol will lead to overdoses. I can go down to beer store pick up a bottle of beer and feel confident that it was properly made. ie Pasteurized (I think), no impurities or harmful substances, and correct alcohol percentage.
If alcohol was illegal. I'd be going to buy alcohol from some back alley dealer. The alcohol could actually be moonshine made in some guys tub, fill with impurities and toxins, and maybe 98% percent alcohol. That might kill me.
It's the same with any other drug. The US "War on Drugs" is one of the most misguided and harmful (socially and economically) pieces of legislation on the planet.
Why are more than a million americans behind bars on marijuana charges!!. That's among americans removed from the labour force because they wanted to sit and smoke a joint. Stupid.
Have you taken an economics course, know anything about supply and demand. The "War on Drugs" was so succesful in eliminating supply that the price of marijuana sky-rocketed. Cocaine, heroine, and other harsh drugs suddenly became relatively cheaper and more popular.
I don't do drugs (well, illegal ones anyway). And don't plan to even if they are made legal. But ending this silly "War on Drugs" is probably about the best thing the US could do to improve its social welfare.
$52000 a year isn't a lot?
I make ~$40K Canadian. That's more than enough to support myself. Big apartment, big tv, fancy speakers, reasonably expensive hobbies, nights on the town. And that's about half of $52K US.
If you can't support one person on $52K I think you need to re-evaluate your lifestyle.
Ummmm
Kilo = 10^3
Mega = 10^6
Giga = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000
1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
It isn't the Rio/HD manufacturers who are making up terms. I don't know who it was, but at some point someone thought that 1024 bytes was close enough 1000 that could call 1024bytes a kilobyte. That's person who made up a term. The manufacturers are using a completely standard mathmatic/scientific standard to measure things.
Dude. Ever seen Monty Python's life of Brian? Seen the scene at the end in which the guys on crosses start singing "Look on the bright side of life"?
That, dude, is called optimism. You'll seriously be much happier if you try it sometime. Instead of bitching and complaining that someone has more than you, be happy with what you've got. If ya ain't happy with what ya got now, then you'll never be happy, as there's always going to be something you don't have.
Lighten up, have fun.
Ummm, Dude. I'd just let things drop if I you were you, there's no way you're coming out of this arguement ahead.
All too often I come across people who have never studied economics or finance, yet none-the-less are extremely opinionated on the matter. There "theories" are usually dereft of reason, but no amount of logic and facts will convince them of out.
Look for the people shouting loudest at the anti-trade/globalization shingdings. You'll see what I mean.
So go out and be your own boss.Have good ideas and then make money off them. That's how to make lots of money.
Yes it's risky, yes there's no steady salary, yes you've risked your life savings, yes for every one that makes it big there's a score that crash and burn.
But it is probably the best (maybe the only) way to become rich. Some old proveb about those who risk a lot get a lot.
That being said, I'm very comfortable with my nice steady job. Will I become rich? No, most likely not. Do I care? No, I don't need to be rich to be happy.
Sun is not cheap. Any serious (non-intel) Sun workstation will set you back in th $10K range last I checked. And don't even go into the prices they're charging for server class equipment. You are getting something for the that money, but it is damn expensive
If Sun's current pricing isn't serious I'd hate to see what you think it should be.
I have a feeling it would be more than slightly annoying if you were one the people stuck 36K up in space with no way back down!
Several billion dollars will not suddenly vanish from the US economy. People will spend their money in other ways or put in the banks (which then invest it). Only if everyone takes the money and sticks it under their mattresses will it make any difference.
All money theoretically should be spent with the to get something out of it. Is defense spending the most productive way to get something though. Defense spending is not investment spending.
Investment spending is to invest money in public infrastructure, education, health, etc. Now by investing in these sorts of programs it is expected that some years down the road the money spend will pay itself many times over. However, when the military spends money on rockets, the money is sunk. The country doesn't get anything back from the spent money.
One of the major problems with the Reagan era was that his goverment borrowed huge amounts of money and spent it on the military. That money is going to have to be repaid, and the country doesn't have anything to show for it. It's economy has really grown that much because of the borrowed. Instead if the government had spend it wisely, the money that has to be paid back would have been insignificant compared to positive economic it could have had.
Yes, military spending can, and has, lead to extremely beneficial consequences that have helped the country grow. But these aren't the point nor the goal of military research, and so from both policy and common sense views should be ignored when deciding how to best spend money.
Amnesty International is indeed an admirable organization, which has over the years done much to increase the welfare of humans across the globe. However sometimes it engages in rather silly attack-the-pig-dog-capitalist campaigns which only serve to tarnish it's image and undermine it's credibility.
Unfortunately it's much the same way with Greenpeace. I used to have tremendous respect for them, but thanks to their recent stunts wrt to WTO/globlization issues they now rank only somewhere slightly above PETA. And it's a shame that good causes are undermined like that.
Have there been any real actors in the recent star films? Well, except Jackson.
If it is possible brute force a a password crack (either because the cracker has a copy of the encrypted password or because they are allowed to repeatedly try passwords), then changing passwords frequently is required for security. Yes, it really does matter.
Let's pretend you have a password for a system and a cracker gets ahold of the encrypted password. The cracker has to spend x time decrypting the password. If you change you password halfway through, then the password the cracker gets is now invalid. They have to start all over again with the new password.
Because no password is uncrackable. One issue about cryptography is that things don't have to be uncrackable, so long as by the time they are cracked it is irrelevant.
If it's possible to crack your password in 7 months but you change it every 6, then the cracked password is useless. If you never change your password it can always be cracked.
I hope to god (pick a god, any god) you were being sarcastic with that "difficult" part.
It's called supply and demand. How are they supposed to know what consumers want if they don't tell them?
Yeah, but how much entertainment can you get out of one DVD. I can't watch the same movie more than a couple times a year (even the really good ones), but a good CD will spend long periods of time in my CD changer. Plus i can listen at work.
This has alreadly been done. Someone took a breakdown of all the raw materials in the human body. In the end it was something like a couple of dollars.
On a per capita basis America spends much more one health than other developed countries (such as Canada, as another poster commented). And that's if you distribute costs equally over the the entire population, even though 25% don't have any medical coverage.
There is definitely some padding and inefficiencies there. Why for instance, do drug companies need to market their drugs to the public. The people issuing the prescriptions are doctors. Drug advertising is creating artificial demand. People see the adds and then pester physicians to prescribe the drugs even if they aren't actually needed.
Ah, well if high school is secondary and grad school is tertiary, then where does undergrad fit in?
In Canada 20% percent of people go on to university/college. I don't understand why the US would have such a lower rate.
An IQ of 100 is not dimwitted, it is the IQ of a normal person.
I thought the article was funny, and I don't think it was meant as anything other (did you see the predictions regarding World War VI?).
It was funny? It was juvenile silliness. Monty Python were silly, but at least they were witty too.
If the cost of something isn't something that directly and conspicuously affects them, then the cost doesn't exist. Sorry, a market economy doesn't work that way.
Actually that's exactly how market economies work. Consumers and producers will act in a manner that makes them better off. Externalities affecting other parties don't factor into the equation. That's why we have governments and laws to regulate industry.