Wow, they found the icon that makes the thing play alphabet songs without any instruction, and one of them already knew enough about computers to unlock the camera-off setting. BFD.
Where, exactly, does this tablet figure out what each kid's level of educational attainment and specific needs are?
Teacher salaries should be compared to those of other professionals with similar levels of training and responsibility. What's the average professional salary in Chicago?
If these same people, with four to eight years of college, at least one degree and several years working at a professional level weren't teaching, they'd be doing some other professional job, not flipping burgers or packing boxes. You have to pay people something commensurate with what they can earn elsewhere or they won't work for you.
It depends on what you're talking about. The sender pays for its storage and for copyrights that it passes on to the receiver and charges the receiver back for its service. But when it comes to email, the receiver pays most of the cost. This is why you receive so much spam. It costs the sender next to nothing and he has no concern over how much of your ISP's storage space he uses by sending his shit to every email address he can discover, think of or make up because the ISP has no way to charge it back to him. They charge you for it.
I think you're mistaken. I think every country wants to control the internet and very many people (certainly not the Chinese and others who live in Oppression States) would rather see their own country control it than a foreign entity.
And they're not counting the efficiency loss just due to hauling around the big magnetic wind-up-toy mechanism or the random metal shit stuck to the bottom of your car.
Nobody's worried about the sex. Development of the child in space and possible complications of pregnancy are a bigger concern because of what it does to a woman's circulatory system.
But those are relatively minor risks. The big risk is complications of childbirth.
Your attitude tells us one thing very clearly. You have never been in the room when a baby was born. Humans have the most difficult deliveries of any animal, with a very high potential for loss of life. Every obstetrician knows this, and I doubt you could find one who thinks it is a good idea to try delivering babies in space anytime soon, because FIRST you have do demonstrate that you can do surgery safely in space because there's a high risk whenever a baby is born that some surgery will be required.
And that demonstration pushes the bounds of medical ethics. You can't demonstrate it on humans first. You have to start with sending surgeons and animals to space, just to do unnecessary surgery for the sake of demonstrating whether it can be done and developing safe techniques. You'll probably kill a lot of those animals. Won't THAT be a PR bonanza?
So for the time being we only put people in psace who are either not going to get pregnant or who can be brought down in plenty of time to ensure that their kids can be born on Earth.
"Government budget crisis"?
When governments excessively spend money they don't have, it is inevitably creating an "economic crisis" down the line.
It depends on a number of variables. In the USA, some of the states are unable to borrow money, so they can have a budget crisis any time tax revenue drops. They can solve that kind of problem by increasing taxes.
On the federal level, whether a budget problem creates an economic crisis depends on a lot of variables: how much debt the government already has, the rate at which it is financed, the term over which it is financed and the size of the debt in relation to GDP. If the debt is financed over a period of 10 years, you don't have to deal with it all in one year, so it can be less than a crisis even if the debt is a large fraction of GDP. If it's financed over 30 years, it can be a serious consideration but not necessarily a crisis even if it exceeds GDP
How you deal with a problem of this sort depends on a lot of things, but possible solutions include spending cuts, tax increases and economic expansion. It's unwise to count on economic expansion to bail you out though, particularly if the amount of expansion that would be required to bail you out exceeds historical trends.
You need to distinguish between an economic crisis and a government budget crisis. Taxing can get you out of a government budget crisis. Lowering taxes when you don't have enough taxes to cover your current spending will just as surely produce one.
The difference between a Swiss bank and a bank in another European country is that Swiss banks don't share information about the account balance with the governments of their respective clients. So while having a Swiss bank account doesn't necessarily mean someone is evading taxes, the vast majority of the people evading taxes will use Swiss bank accounts.
That's true. They're also useful for stashing stolen money and the proceeds of illegal drug transactions.
I don't understand how going back to the drachma would help them out of their current debt situation. Their debts are enumerated in euros so they have to pay them back in euros. If the switch to drachmas and then inflate the drachmas they'll just have to trade that many more drachmas to buy the euros they'll need to pay off the debts.
But I can see that it's to one's advantage to have one's wealth counted in euros, which are more stable than any re-established currency is likely to be.
you could design such a machine to align itself with the car, but that adds cost and complexity. I'm sure their prototype has no such provision.
Also, what happens when you drive this car over a chunk of loose steel? It winds up stuck to the bottom of your car, no?
The key thing to have installed in the house is flexible hardware:
Things a modern house should have:
a photovoltaic electric system capable of powering your house or at least its essential elements
passive solar heating design to minimize your heating bills
a heat pump system with a large underground reservoir for storing your waste heat in the summer and using it to help heat your house in the winter
ethernet wiring or fiber to every room. Better yet: to every electric outlet
a centralized rack that serves as a distribution point for your routers, switches and servers
most of your light switches should be wired to relays rather than direct controls, and the relays controls should go back to
a server cabinet or rack to
antenna connectors on your roof
your heating control system
This way you can reconfigure and upgrade your house easily, with most work easily accomplished at your control distribution rack without digging into walls after the initial installation.
...they'll probably say that it's not their job to decide whether the law is stupid or unjust.
And it isn't. The legislature makes the law, and the courts just figure out how it applies to each case.
Except in the case of the Supreme Courts of countries, where they must also decide whether the law is compatible with the principles of the country (i.e., the constitution).
That's just a refinement of deciding how the law applies. In principle at least, the courts confine themselves to what the law is (including the Constitution).
That's one hell of a markup considering he made $1,200,000.
Specifically he sold dozens of copies of eight textbooks
Ah, there we go - presumably that's "dozens" in the sense of "thousands." Not that the whole thing isn't utterly ridiculous, of course.
from TFA: "Specifically he sold dozens of copies of eight textbooks printed in Asia by a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons publishers. Kirtsaeng's lawyers claim his gross revenue from the Wiley sales was just $37,000."
He didn't make those copies. He just imported them.
The claimed 1.2million figure is in regard to all the books he sold, most of which apparently were not Wiley titles.
, but they'll probably say that it's not their job to decide whether the law is stupid or unjust.
Actually it is. You know "checks and balances"
The lawmakers make them, Executive branches authorizes, and the judicial branch says whether they are just or unjust.
No. Whether they are just or unjust is never considered. They only consider cases in the following aspects:
-what the law says
-whether it was rightly applied in the particular case
-whether Congress or the State had the power to make such a law
-whether it violates another law (typically the Constitution in cases that reach the Supreme Court).
90% may not be good enough if a plug is a convenient alternative. If you're taking an efficiency hit, might as well use it to enable something new. How about this: line up magnets under the road to charge cars as they move along. (Ideally the chargers would be powered by solar panels in the median, or in the road itself).
That would be a good idea if it weren't so obviously unworkable and wouldn't slow down every car on the road and cost a million times more than a stationary charger.
I can only assume that this hopefully is a method that increases efficiency, but my first thought would be that if you have a magnet spinning nearby underneath a car, why not just put a coil in the car and generate electricity that way? Adding a second magnet just seems like it would add weight and mechanical complexity.
But if they went that route, I suppose they must've had good reason.
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Wow, they found the icon that makes the thing play alphabet songs without any instruction, and one of them already knew enough about computers to unlock the camera-off setting. BFD.
Where, exactly, does this tablet figure out what each kid's level of educational attainment and specific needs are?
Teacher salaries should be compared to those of other professionals with similar levels of training and responsibility. What's the average professional salary in Chicago?
If these same people, with four to eight years of college, at least one degree and several years working at a professional level weren't teaching, they'd be doing some other professional job, not flipping burgers or packing boxes. You have to pay people something commensurate with what they can earn elsewhere or they won't work for you.
http://www.ednewscolorado.org/2011/10/03/25456-achievement-of-online-students-drops-over-time-lags-statewide-averages-on-every-indicator
It depends on what you're talking about. The sender pays for its storage and for copyrights that it passes on to the receiver and charges the receiver back for its service. But when it comes to email, the receiver pays most of the cost. This is why you receive so much spam. It costs the sender next to nothing and he has no concern over how much of your ISP's storage space he uses by sending his shit to every email address he can discover, think of or make up because the ISP has no way to charge it back to him. They charge you for it.
I think you're mistaken. I think every country wants to control the internet and very many people (certainly not the Chinese and others who live in Oppression States) would rather see their own country control it than a foreign entity.
And they're not counting the efficiency loss just due to hauling around the big magnetic wind-up-toy mechanism or the random metal shit stuck to the bottom of your car.
Nobody's worried about the sex. Development of the child in space and possible complications of pregnancy are a bigger concern because of what it does to a woman's circulatory system.
But those are relatively minor risks. The big risk is complications of childbirth.
Your attitude tells us one thing very clearly. You have never been in the room when a baby was born. Humans have the most difficult deliveries of any animal, with a very high potential for loss of life. Every obstetrician knows this, and I doubt you could find one who thinks it is a good idea to try delivering babies in space anytime soon, because FIRST you have do demonstrate that you can do surgery safely in space because there's a high risk whenever a baby is born that some surgery will be required.
And that demonstration pushes the bounds of medical ethics. You can't demonstrate it on humans first. You have to start with sending surgeons and animals to space, just to do unnecessary surgery for the sake of demonstrating whether it can be done and developing safe techniques. You'll probably kill a lot of those animals. Won't THAT be a PR bonanza?
So for the time being we only put people in psace who are either not going to get pregnant or who can be brought down in plenty of time to ensure that their kids can be born on Earth.
"Government budget crisis"? When governments excessively spend money they don't have, it is inevitably creating an "economic crisis" down the line.
It depends on a number of variables. In the USA, some of the states are unable to borrow money, so they can have a budget crisis any time tax revenue drops. They can solve that kind of problem by increasing taxes.
On the federal level, whether a budget problem creates an economic crisis depends on a lot of variables: how much debt the government already has, the rate at which it is financed, the term over which it is financed and the size of the debt in relation to GDP. If the debt is financed over a period of 10 years, you don't have to deal with it all in one year, so it can be less than a crisis even if the debt is a large fraction of GDP. If it's financed over 30 years, it can be a serious consideration but not necessarily a crisis even if it exceeds GDP
How you deal with a problem of this sort depends on a lot of things, but possible solutions include spending cuts, tax increases and economic expansion. It's unwise to count on economic expansion to bail you out though, particularly if the amount of expansion that would be required to bail you out exceeds historical trends.
You need to distinguish between an economic crisis and a government budget crisis. Taxing can get you out of a government budget crisis. Lowering taxes when you don't have enough taxes to cover your current spending will just as surely produce one.
The difference between a Swiss bank and a bank in another European country is that Swiss banks don't share information about the account balance with the governments of their respective clients. So while having a Swiss bank account doesn't necessarily mean someone is evading taxes, the vast majority of the people evading taxes will use Swiss bank accounts.
That's true. They're also useful for stashing stolen money and the proceeds of illegal drug transactions.
I don't understand how going back to the drachma would help them out of their current debt situation. Their debts are enumerated in euros so they have to pay them back in euros. If the switch to drachmas and then inflate the drachmas they'll just have to trade that many more drachmas to buy the euros they'll need to pay off the debts.
But I can see that it's to one's advantage to have one's wealth counted in euros, which are more stable than any re-established currency is likely to be.
Maybe they were questioning him about this, where he's quoted as saying that Afghanistan's Taliban and other insurgents are justified by Islamic law: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan-islam
Apparently TFA was an attempt to use the word cyber as many times as cybernetically possible in a single cyber article.
you could design such a machine to align itself with the car, but that adds cost and complexity. I'm sure their prototype has no such provision. Also, what happens when you drive this car over a chunk of loose steel? It winds up stuck to the bottom of your car, no?
At this point, it would be completely irresponsible to put fertile men and women on a long-term trip. Chances are the woman and her baby would die.
Pre-string the unused conduits with pull strings. It's much easier to pull new cable that way.
The key thing to have installed in the house is flexible hardware:
This way you can reconfigure and upgrade your house easily, with most work easily accomplished at your control distribution rack without digging into walls after the initial installation.
...they'll probably say that it's not their job to decide whether the law is stupid or unjust.
And it isn't. The legislature makes the law, and the courts just figure out how it applies to each case.
Except in the case of the Supreme Courts of countries, where they must also decide whether the law is compatible with the principles of the country (i.e., the constitution).
That's just a refinement of deciding how the law applies. In principle at least, the courts confine themselves to what the law is (including the Constitution).
EIGHT BOOKS.
That's one hell of a markup considering he made $1,200,000.
Specifically he sold dozens of copies of eight textbooks
Ah, there we go - presumably that's "dozens" in the sense of "thousands." Not that the whole thing isn't utterly ridiculous, of course.
from TFA: "Specifically he sold dozens of copies of eight textbooks printed in Asia by a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons publishers. Kirtsaeng's lawyers claim his gross revenue from the Wiley sales was just $37,000." He didn't make those copies. He just imported them. The claimed 1.2million figure is in regard to all the books he sold, most of which apparently were not Wiley titles.
That's a promotion. The power is not free because somebody has to pay for the installation.
, but they'll probably say that it's not their job to decide whether the law is stupid or unjust.
Actually it is. You know "checks and balances" The lawmakers make them, Executive branches authorizes, and the judicial branch says whether they are just or unjust.
No. Whether they are just or unjust is never considered. They only consider cases in the following aspects: -what the law says
-whether it was rightly applied in the particular case
-whether Congress or the State had the power to make such a law
-whether it violates another law (typically the Constitution in cases that reach the Supreme Court).
Yeah, I'll only have to drive in that lane for four hours every day while it inductively slows down my car.
I knew if I waited long enough I would get my wind-up toys back. But why aren't they using a big spring?
90% may not be good enough if a plug is a convenient alternative. If you're taking an efficiency hit, might as well use it to enable something new. How about this: line up magnets under the road to charge cars as they move along. (Ideally the chargers would be powered by solar panels in the median, or in the road itself).
That would be a good idea if it weren't so obviously unworkable and wouldn't slow down every car on the road and cost a million times more than a stationary charger.
I can only assume that this hopefully is a method that increases efficiency, but my first thought would be that if you have a magnet spinning nearby underneath a car, why not just put a coil in the car and generate electricity that way? Adding a second magnet just seems like it would add weight and mechanical complexity.
But if they went that route, I suppose they must've had good reason.
There are only bad reasons.