Geologic evidence shows the Earth has a long history of cooling dramatically then heating dramatically in a cycle. I don't know if its our fault (though I'm sure we're helping), but why should we try to alter this part of Nature? The world only has so many resources to throw at this "problem" that no one has ever shown can be "fixed."
I am all about reducing pollution and improving energy efficiency, but not to impact "climate change." We may have cooled the climate by mass deaths in the Great Plague to create the Little Ice Age - but I doubt it was worth the cost.
Never once have I seen an ebook offered to me. I don't know what software they would use, what it would cost, or what my rights would be. So I read books from Project Gutenberg instead.
Sell it on Amazon for $1 and get it in my hands in less time than it takes to get in the car, and I'll bite.
I demand an inquiry into the negative health effects of stupid politicians. -Heart Attacks, from their shocking inanity -High blood pressure, from how they waste our money -Depression, from what this country has come to -Erectile Dysfunction, from seeing Mrs. Clinton on television
God now I'm so pissed just thinking about it. Time to turn on GTA and let out some aggression...
Productivity is the product (measured in dollars) per unit labor. Timeliness, coordination, and efficiency all increase the value of what you do, even if it seems like you spend all day reading stupid reports, taking stupid phone calls, and wasting effort being distracted.
Doing the valuable project and being distracted from the invaluable project means you're being more productive - even if you wasted some effort on the low-value project.
The fact that you: - got the information you needed, at the right moment, and - helped other members of your team from being stuck all day doing the wrong thing, - just so you could get that rush report to the boss so he could make an important decision by 5 o'clock, - even though it ruined what you wanted to get done, doesn't mean you weren't productive. In fact, you: - saved yourself from needing to do hours of research - prevented your coworkers from wasting dozens more hours - sped up the company strategy by a day - all for the mere cost of something that can be done tomorrow.
That, my friends, is the high stress world of increased productivity.
I hate to break this to you, but hydrogen is fairly easy to obtain. While certainly hydrocarbons in oil are hydrogen rich, so are hydrocarbons in coal, or peat, or even biomass. Worst case scenario, we can extract it from water with enough electricity. Electricity can also be generated without hydrocarbons, so worst case scenario, the prices go up. Methanes, benzenes, and all the rest have been easy to refine for more than a hundred years.
Refining diesel from coal isn't end-of-the-world expensive. South Africa does it today, Hitler ran a war on it in WWII, and the US could probably switch to coal refining in a few years with enough economic incentive (ie, high oil prices). The sky is not, in fact, falling.
This is brilliant. Almost every Marketing Director will now have to consider that if there is a policy to allow adware advertising, he's losing his job when the company has to spend twice as much on PR to claim they're not really evil. The trick will be to shame them one at a time at a televised press conference if they don't agree to cease and desist immediately instead of "shaming" so many that it becomes acceptable.
You know if there were a weekly live shaming on TV that you'd watch too.
We haven't taken away freedom of the press in Iraq. In fact, we're teaching them valuable rules about capitalism - The guy with the biggest bribes makes them.
Yes, and we teach them that gravity exists to prevent them from falling up into space. Are you seriously thinking Americans bribe more than Iraqis do?
There are only two ways to make things: make them cheaper than anyone else, or make them better than everyone else. If you're the CEO and willing to dilute your shares and give up your options in order to get this deal done, you have to think either A) consolidated R&D->better products B) consolidated channels -> distribution efficiencies C) segmentation of products-> more competitive pricing or D) all of the above.
Here's how you know it was going to be a success: MTV poured money into it. Without MTV, big production money and big marketing money, it would've been a B movie. I hate to say this, but Napoleon is popular because MTV made it so. I'm not sure wether that's frightening or a breath of fresh air.
There are really only two things that matter when you're stopping a round: breaking the skin, and breaking the bones. Broken bones don't generally kill you, but occasionally internal bleeding or punctured lungs will. If you can breath and you aren't bleeding, you can survive a few hours to get to a hospital.
That being said, you don't want to "reduce" energy per se (that's kinda unphysical), but rather spread it out. The amount of energy isn't the problem, its the area density. You always need some amount of flexibility and cushioning to transfer the energy from the strike plate. That, and you need to be able to move in it.
Most soldiers who take bullets to the helmet do not suffer concussion. Helmets are rounded very carefully to deflect bullets so that they don't absorb all the momentum of a round, and the straps and restraints try to cushion as much of the blow as possible. E.g. US Kevlar Helmets have about an inch of air between the shell and the head strap that is actually in contact with the head. A network of polyester straps suspends and balances the helmet around this head strap. I've been hit very hard on the helmet and all it did was twist, pull on my scalp and echo.
I would rather it go to those individuals who are actually likely to be shot at with highly penetrating rounds. Why would you want your local government spending that much money on something so expensive when conventional body armor exceeds their needs? Since AKs aren't too prevalent on US streets any more, I think the odds are combat troops and SWAT are going to be the only ones willing to pay the price for this material.
Maybe South African beat cops, but they are a whole different breed.
Small caveat though - Torture is already illegal for the military. The loopholes the Bush Administration was using were that the CIA et al are not military, and were not doing it in the United States. Have a little faith in Sen McCain - the man knows a hell of a lot more about torture than we do.
When one takes a high-risk venture, based upon some debt in their capital structure, we call this leveraging. As Virgin is a leveraged firm, and this is a high-risk venture, I believe the term is quite appropriate.
For jumbojets like a 747 or a 7E7, depending on seat configurations, you can expect between 200 and 300 passengers. If you can get a full aircraft for an international flight, you can probably average $500 per seat (every ticket costs a different amount). 300*$500=$150 thousand revenue.
Now, I will argue that $200,000 is a bit pricey for that trip. The current spacecraft certainly wouldn't be in orbit for 24 hours, so the upper limit is $8300 per hour. That's an expensive experience, especially given that one could expect prices to come down if one waited a few years. There may be a few people willing to do it, but not enough to keep this thing in business efficiently.
I think a price tag of $20,000 is more reasonable. Still, you're talking a serious chunk of change, but an order of magnitude is an order of magnitude. At that point, then our aircraft and our spacecraft are generating similar revenues, though the margins will be much better for the spacecraft.
What convinces me that this is a hoax is that the actors are only rewarded for not breaking character, ie "not discovering the truth." If they were being fooled, it really wouldn't be fair to puish them for catching on to the joke. If any actor can not break character for 5 days straight in an absurd situation, they deserve public accolade.
Ladies: Please stop bitching about the 'female ideal.' You buy into it, and every girl wants to think she's in the top ten percentile of attractiveness. 90% of you are wrong, and the only ones who admit it are usually the bottom 10%.
Gentlemen: Please stop obsessing about the 'male ideal.' I was a soldier, in a real war, and it isn't glamorous. You don't often shoot people, and if you get killed, 90% of the time you wont even know you were in a fight. You die from bombs, mortar shells, and other non-heroic things you don't see in video games.
You will never be a strong, independent hero. 99% of your time, you're not doing anything heroic. You are being someone elses bitch, no matter what rank: enlistees are the bitches of the officers, officers are the bitches of the generals, and generals are the bitches of the politicians.
First Person shooters, and RPGs feed into this image that you go out onto some glorious field of battle and win a lot. And they have 'magic potions' so instead of being 'wounded' when you're hit, and getting an amputation and being hospitalized for 6 months before you start rehab.
Death? No prob - Fenix Down! Being away from you girlfriend forever so that you get a Dear John letter? Impossible! Your sexy female interest goes into combat with you! Everyone and everything you have the honor of killing is pure evil - no accidental shootings of innocents, no honoring the ideals they were trying to live up to.
I think it odd that far less than 1% of the population has ever been in a combat situation, but somehow every movie and video game I ever see has them. The reality is, if more people had experienced this reality, the games wouldn't be very interesting.
Most of what you learn in college isn't in the classroom, or in a book. If you aren't making connections with students, faculty, and guests, and finding extracurriculars that form you and direct you to where you want to go and what you want to do, you will find that a degree is just a piece of paper.
Recently, in a meeting at my university with senior executive officers at major companies, someone asked how internet education would change how they hired people. They laughed, and stated that those students wouldn't be in meetings like these, so they wouldn't be hired.
The funny thing is that some prostitutes in Africa survive without AIDS. IIRC, about 1% of prostitutes never get it, despite daily exposure. We should be giving these women childcare credits for the service they're doing for the entire world by reproducing.
Since your survival length increases with delta 32, those with the disease who live long enough to reliably reproduce without drugs can have a 25% chance of having completely immune children.
It's a fun slap in the face of the Religious Right that one of the gay men God sent this disease to demonstrated there can be an innoculation.
Do you stil (sic) think the US is 'the richest nation on earth'? Look at unemployment, illiteracy, innumeracy, infant mortality (43rd, after Cuba!) and poverty figures for the last decades. Compare to any other country and then do the same for the added figures for the whole EU.
The United States IS "The Richest Nation on Earth." The value of our assets dwarfs the values of the assets of most nations, with only a couple coming anywhere close (Japan, China, Germany).
Look at the value of our prime assets and liabilities: our owned equity, money, real property, inventories, capital goods, net our net debt. I don't have hard numbers, and I challenge someone to find them. I'd imagine the wealth US owned (by citizens, government, and share of corporations) to be about $100 trillion. I'd estimate that this is 30% of global wealth. Probably only Japan comes even close, with maybe $30 trillion, or 10% of global wealth.
Unemployment: United States labor markets are so efficient, that unlike the socialized economies of Western Europe, if you don't have a job, you can get one. Only in Japan is unemployment better managed (at the cost of growth). Some people might be into something called 'facts' - here you go. August 2005 - US: 4.9%. Germany: 11.6%. France: 9.9% . China: 23%, +/-20% (pick a number, any number). India: 9%. Indonesia: 9%. Japan: 4.4%.
Illiteracy: Literacy rates of countries with population of more than 150 million - US: 97% China: 91% India: 59% Indonesia: 88% Brazil: 86% Pakistan: 46%. While I'd assume EU Literacy rate is 99% (quite commendable), 3% of our population being miseducated is not a condemnation of our wealth - just our education system. Imagine what our unemployment would look like if everyone could read... (Source: CIA World Book)
The main wealth Americans have, however, is institutional. We have the ability to choose from a variety of goods and services, more enforceable rights than almost anywhere else, and impressively low corruption. When the Chinese can buy any American goods, have the right to due process and continuous ownership, responsive government, and don't have to pay off the police on a daily basis, maybe then they could build wealth.
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Right. A Hurricane has never made it to New York. And certainly not in the last 100 years...
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Geologic evidence shows the Earth has a long history of cooling dramatically then heating dramatically in a cycle. I don't know if its our fault (though I'm sure we're helping), but why should we try to alter this part of Nature? The world only has so many resources to throw at this "problem" that no one has ever shown can be "fixed."
I am all about reducing pollution and improving energy efficiency, but not to impact "climate change." We may have cooled the climate by mass deaths in the Great Plague to create the Little Ice Age - but I doubt it was worth the cost.
Never once have I seen an ebook offered to me. I don't know what software they would use, what it would cost, or what my rights would be. So I read books from Project Gutenberg instead.
Sell it on Amazon for $1 and get it in my hands in less time than it takes to get in the car, and I'll bite.
I demand an inquiry into the negative health effects of stupid politicians.
-Heart Attacks, from their shocking inanity
-High blood pressure, from how they waste our money
-Depression, from what this country has come to
-Erectile Dysfunction, from seeing Mrs. Clinton on television
God now I'm so pissed just thinking about it. Time to turn on GTA and let out some aggression...
Productivity is the product (measured in dollars) per unit labor. Timeliness, coordination, and efficiency all increase the value of what you do, even if it seems like you spend all day reading stupid reports, taking stupid phone calls, and wasting effort being distracted.
Doing the valuable project and being distracted from the invaluable project means you're being more productive - even if you wasted some effort on the low-value project.
The fact that you:
- got the information you needed, at the right moment, and
- helped other members of your team from being stuck all day doing the wrong thing,
- just so you could get that rush report to the boss so he could make an important decision by 5 o'clock,
- even though it ruined what you wanted to get done,
doesn't mean you weren't productive.
In fact, you:
- saved yourself from needing to do hours of research
- prevented your coworkers from wasting dozens more hours
- sped up the company strategy by a day
- all for the mere cost of something that can be done tomorrow.
That, my friends, is the high stress world of increased productivity.
Grandparent has never met a businessperson.
I hate to break this to you, but hydrogen is fairly easy to obtain. While certainly hydrocarbons in oil are hydrogen rich, so are hydrocarbons in coal, or peat, or even biomass. Worst case scenario, we can extract it from water with enough electricity. Electricity can also be generated without hydrocarbons, so worst case scenario, the prices go up. Methanes, benzenes, and all the rest have been easy to refine for more than a hundred years.
Refining diesel from coal isn't end-of-the-world expensive. South Africa does it today, Hitler ran a war on it in WWII, and the US could probably switch to coal refining in a few years with enough economic incentive (ie, high oil prices). The sky is not, in fact, falling.
This is brilliant. Almost every Marketing Director will now have to consider that if there is a policy to allow adware advertising, he's losing his job when the company has to spend twice as much on PR to claim they're not really evil. The trick will be to shame them one at a time at a televised press conference if they don't agree to cease and desist immediately instead of "shaming" so many that it becomes acceptable.
You know if there were a weekly live shaming on TV that you'd watch too.
We haven't taken away freedom of the press in Iraq. In fact, we're teaching them valuable rules about capitalism - The guy with the biggest bribes makes them.
Yes, and we teach them that gravity exists to prevent them from falling up into space. Are you seriously thinking Americans bribe more than Iraqis do?
It would be moot - Sony isn't black.
Joe: DVDA?
Monitor: It's the only way a monitor my age can compete in this industry.
There are only two ways to make things: make them cheaper than anyone else, or make them better than everyone else.
If you're the CEO and willing to dilute your shares and give up your options in order to get this deal done, you have to think either
A) consolidated R&D->better products
B) consolidated channels -> distribution efficiencies
C) segmentation of products-> more competitive pricing
or D) all of the above.
I'm personally in favor of this.
Here's how you know it was going to be a success: MTV poured money into it. Without MTV, big production money and big marketing money, it would've been a B movie. I hate to say this, but Napoleon is popular because MTV made it so. I'm not sure wether that's frightening or a breath of fresh air.
There are really only two things that matter when you're stopping a round: breaking the skin, and breaking the bones. Broken bones don't generally kill you, but occasionally internal bleeding or punctured lungs will. If you can breath and you aren't bleeding, you can survive a few hours to get to a hospital.
That being said, you don't want to "reduce" energy per se (that's kinda unphysical), but rather spread it out. The amount of energy isn't the problem, its the area density. You always need some amount of flexibility and cushioning to transfer the energy from the strike plate. That, and you need to be able to move in it.
Most soldiers who take bullets to the helmet do not suffer concussion. Helmets are rounded very carefully to deflect bullets so that they don't absorb all the momentum of a round, and the straps and restraints try to cushion as much of the blow as possible. E.g. US Kevlar Helmets have about an inch of air between the shell and the head strap that is actually in contact with the head. A network of polyester straps suspends and balances the helmet around this head strap. I've been hit very hard on the helmet and all it did was twist, pull on my scalp and echo.
I would rather it go to those individuals who are actually likely to be shot at with highly penetrating rounds. Why would you want your local government spending that much money on something so expensive when conventional body armor exceeds their needs? Since AKs aren't too prevalent on US streets any more, I think the odds are combat troops and SWAT are going to be the only ones willing to pay the price for this material.
Maybe South African beat cops, but they are a whole different breed.
Small caveat though - Torture is already illegal for the military. The loopholes the Bush Administration was using were that the CIA et al are not military, and were not doing it in the United States. Have a little faith in Sen McCain - the man knows a hell of a lot more about torture than we do.
When one takes a high-risk venture, based upon some debt in their capital structure, we call this leveraging. As Virgin is a leveraged firm, and this is a high-risk venture, I believe the term is quite appropriate.
For jumbojets like a 747 or a 7E7, depending on seat configurations, you can expect between 200 and 300 passengers. If you can get a full aircraft for an international flight, you can probably average $500 per seat (every ticket costs a different amount). 300*$500=$150 thousand revenue.
Now, I will argue that $200,000 is a bit pricey for that trip. The current spacecraft certainly wouldn't be in orbit for 24 hours, so the upper limit is $8300 per hour. That's an expensive experience, especially given that one could expect prices to come down if one waited a few years. There may be a few people willing to do it, but not enough to keep this thing in business efficiently.
I think a price tag of $20,000 is more reasonable. Still, you're talking a serious chunk of change, but an order of magnitude is an order of magnitude. At that point, then our aircraft and our spacecraft are generating similar revenues, though the margins will be much better for the spacecraft.
What convinces me that this is a hoax is that the actors are only rewarded for not breaking character, ie "not discovering the truth." If they were being fooled, it really wouldn't be fair to puish them for catching on to the joke. If any actor can not break character for 5 days straight in an absurd situation, they deserve public accolade.
Ladies: Please stop bitching about the 'female ideal.' You buy into it, and every girl wants to think she's in the top ten percentile of attractiveness. 90% of you are wrong, and the only ones who admit it are usually the bottom 10%.
Gentlemen: Please stop obsessing about the 'male ideal.' I was a soldier, in a real war, and it isn't glamorous. You don't often shoot people, and if you get killed, 90% of the time you wont even know you were in a fight. You die from bombs, mortar shells, and other non-heroic things you don't see in video games.
You will never be a strong, independent hero. 99% of your time, you're not doing anything heroic. You are being someone elses bitch, no matter what rank: enlistees are the bitches of the officers, officers are the bitches of the generals, and generals are the bitches of the politicians.
First Person shooters, and RPGs feed into this image that you go out onto some glorious field of battle and win a lot. And they have 'magic potions' so instead of being 'wounded' when you're hit, and getting an amputation and being hospitalized for 6 months before you start rehab.
Death? No prob - Fenix Down! Being away from you girlfriend forever so that you get a Dear John letter? Impossible! Your sexy female interest goes into combat with you! Everyone and everything you have the honor of killing is pure evil - no accidental shootings of innocents, no honoring the ideals they were trying to live up to.
I think it odd that far less than 1% of the population has ever been in a combat situation, but somehow every movie and video game I ever see has them. The reality is, if more people had experienced this reality, the games wouldn't be very interesting.
Most of what you learn in college isn't in the classroom, or in a book. If you aren't making connections with students, faculty, and guests, and finding extracurriculars that form you and direct you to where you want to go and what you want to do, you will find that a degree is just a piece of paper.
Recently, in a meeting at my university with senior executive officers at major companies, someone asked how internet education would change how they hired people. They laughed, and stated that those students wouldn't be in meetings like these, so they wouldn't be hired.
The funny thing is that some prostitutes in Africa survive without AIDS. IIRC, about 1% of prostitutes never get it, despite daily exposure. We should be giving these women childcare credits for the service they're doing for the entire world by reproducing.
Since your survival length increases with delta 32, those with the disease who live long enough to reliably reproduce without drugs can have a 25% chance of having completely immune children.
It's a fun slap in the face of the Religious Right that one of the gay men God sent this disease to demonstrated there can be an innoculation.
Do you stil (sic) think the US is 'the richest nation on earth'? Look at unemployment, illiteracy, innumeracy, infant mortality (43rd, after Cuba!) and poverty figures for the last decades. Compare to any other country and then do the same for the added figures for the whole EU.
The United States IS "The Richest Nation on Earth." The value of our assets dwarfs the values of the assets of most nations, with only a couple coming anywhere close (Japan, China, Germany).
Look at the value of our prime assets and liabilities: our owned equity, money, real property, inventories, capital goods, net our net debt. I don't have hard numbers, and I challenge someone to find them. I'd imagine the wealth US owned (by citizens, government, and share of corporations) to be about $100 trillion. I'd estimate that this is 30% of global wealth. Probably only Japan comes even close, with maybe $30 trillion, or 10% of global wealth.
Unemployment: United States labor markets are so efficient, that unlike the socialized economies of Western Europe, if you don't have a job, you can get one. Only in Japan is unemployment better managed (at the cost of growth). Some people might be into something called 'facts' - here you go.
August 2005 - US: 4.9%. Germany: 11.6%. France: 9.9% . China: 23%, +/-20% (pick a number, any number). India: 9%. Indonesia: 9%. Japan: 4.4%.
Illiteracy: Literacy rates of countries with population of more than 150 million - US: 97% China: 91% India: 59% Indonesia: 88% Brazil: 86% Pakistan: 46%. While I'd assume EU Literacy rate is 99% (quite commendable), 3% of our population being miseducated is not a condemnation of our wealth - just our education system. Imagine what our unemployment would look like if everyone could read... (Source: CIA World Book)
The main wealth Americans have, however, is institutional. We have the ability to choose from a variety of goods and services, more enforceable rights than almost anywhere else, and impressively low corruption. When the Chinese can buy any American goods, have the right to due process and continuous ownership, responsive government, and don't have to pay off the police on a daily basis, maybe then they could build wealth.
I've got a great new idea of how to destroy Microsoft's marketing budget...