First off, assuming the "demand" for engineers is fixed is ridiculous. Who employs people? In America, its corporations. Who starts or runs corporations? People trained in engineering are the second most likely, after management students of course. So, the people with the highest likelihood of creating excess demand for students are management and engineering students.
Training people to solve other peoples problems, to do so more efficiently or more cheaply is not the problem. If there's not enough employ for such individuals, it has to do with the structure of the market. Inventions still tend to come from engineers, and inventions still tend to make new companies or industries possible. This is what improves technology, productivity, and thus, economic growth.
"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Amendment XIV, US Constitution
IANAL, but doesn't enforcing a contract requiring binding arbitration and barring use of the courts mean "without due process of the law"?
Do you talk to bacteria? Why should they notice our existence, and if they notice, why should they care? When we start to ignite supernovas, they'll probably drop by with a fruitcake to welcome us to the neighborhood.
You know, at first I thought: "Finally! An ethical source of stem cells! Christians can't argue that parthenogenic embryos are worth saving!" Then I thought: "Wait, Christians thought a parthenogenic embryo WAS saving..." A moment later: "Wait, Christians think a parthenogenic embryo can save mankind!"
Not necessarily a horrible idea. If this is used to power sign lights or something, it could conceivably reduce the transmission loss to make it worthwhile. I'm going to bet that the engineers involved had to take the First Law into account.
While human energy does pollute more per watt than fossil fuels, human energy has the added benefit of making people less fat. Which will increase life expectancies. And I think that's a far more important goal.
This is patently (pun intended) hilarious. When the productivity of farms increases, and fewer people *have* to work on farms to survive, and find *other* productive jobs, this is *not* a bad thing. Supposing your facts are correct, a thousand farmers in India isn't even a village, and pales in comparison to the lives of the MILLIONS of Indians who would otherwise be on the edge of starvation, like they were "a few decades ago". For example, in the then province of Bengal, when in 1943 4 million people starved to death. In 1966, in the province of Bihar, 30 million nearly starved to death, and would have if not for nearly a million tons of food shipped there from the US. As such, only a half million died. In 1974, another Bengali famine killed another million.
Maybe some specific techniques and business practices are unfortunate, but genetically modified crops have saved hundreds of millions of lives. One of the reasons people rarely hear the word "famine" anymore, and are shocked by thousands of people dying is because GM crops have stopped people starving in the millions.
It always amazes me how, no matter what the technology, when you can't find anything wrong with it, a good beating generally fixes it. Probably because mechanical parts are usually the cause of the problem...
My first thought was "Why can't the US govt pay more to have this designed, prototyped, and fielded within 12 months?"
Think about World War II. In light tanks, went from the M2 tank in 1941 to the M3 in 1942 to the M5 in 1943 to the T7 in late 1943. Meanwhile, the HMMWV (first fielded in '84) has been blown to bits since 2003, being the leading cause of losses in a war, and in 2006 we finally being testing MRAP. I am angry, because my government is more worried about wasting money than winning wars, and about a thousand soldiers have died because of it, and probably 20,000 wounded. If some American has to get rich to save lives and win wars, so be it.
Indirect fire, from mortars and rockets are the number two killer in Iraq. This system might have only saved a few hundred lives. If it makes you feel better about pinching pennies in a war, the cost of fielding the system would be cheaper than the medical expenses, rehabilitation, and other payouts from the 10,000 or so wounded from indirect fire.
My problem with the government is that they're focused on blaming people for mistakes about starting wars instead of fixing the problems in winning them.
He'd notice if everyone who uses P2P (~60 million in the US) contributed $1. 454 Representatives, 100 Senators, 50 Governors, 4 Presidential candidates (with >20%)... Split between 608 politicians, we could buy them for the low, low price of $100,000 each. Shit, I lost more in hourly wages typing that than $1.
Will someone please build a secure GPL system for a standard online political contribution system, so we can have non-profit websites which automatically split your contribution between congresspeople we could influence? Whoever builds and implements this system, with a substantial number of fund raising organizations, I'll pay for the servers. Small price to pay for saving democracy...
If cellulosic ethanol works, say goodbye to things that are mainly made of cellulose, like rainforests. You think Indonesia gives a shit where the ethanol they sell you comes from? There's something much worse than global warming, and that's deforestation. If this technology works, its more dangerous than nuclear power to the ecology, and we need to be very careful who learns how to use it.
Obviously, your politicians think you constituents want lower gas prices instead of a clean lake front. And as they're calculating professionals, they're probably right.
Any CLI in Arabic is atrociously complicated, so you'd need someone who can use computers proficiently (very rare) and can read English proficiently (very rare) and is interested in a trip to Gitmo (very, very rare). The odds of an American reporter accidentally finding something on an FTP site is about a hundred times as likely as an Iraqi terrorist deliberately finding it.
Your post is clearly a plot by the counter-counter-intelligence community of the Iraqi insurgents to convince the US counter-intelligence community that it might be believable if they were to leak plans to the Iraqi insurgent intelligence community. Your argument is about as logical.
You have no idea how scarce manpower is for intelligence and counter-intelligence. If we were half as good at intelligence as you think we are, we would have gotten rid of the bad guys in the Iraqi government and we'd all be praising Bush as an epic visionary who won over the Middle East.
The Bill firstly has to be something that can get out of committee. The Bill was referred to the Cmte on House Administration, which consists of 6 Democrats, and 3 Republicans. Committee is where all the magic happens, with the main edits, and people check on whether its popular enough to get passed. If you think you've got good ideas for the Bill, read the Hearings and a href="contact the Committee members. If your ideas are good enough, you can change the minds of one of these 9 people, and have the law amended.
For more democracy, please contact: Chairman Rep. Robert A. Brady, PA-1 Ranking Member Rep. Vernon Ehlers, MI-3
Democrats: Rep. Zoe Lofgren, CA-16 Rep. Mike Capuano, MA-8 Rep. Charles Gonzalez, TX-20 Rep. Susan Davis, CA-53 Rep. Artur Davis, AL-7 Republicans: Rep. Dan Lungren, CA-3 Rep. Kevin McCarthy, CA-22
Breeding takes time, and when pouncing on economic opportunities like the current need for explosives sniffing dogs, speed to market is what will determine how much profit you can make. The point of the article is that these dogs can be delivered this year. If you wait ten years to breed the traits out, the market will already be saturated. Besides, what good American would object to paying $50,000 for an explosives sniffing dog to stop terrorism?
Agreed. Nothing to worry about. It's not like we were going to go to war with China in the next decade or two anyway. If Americans think Iraq is a "disaster," imagine how they will react when we have to pick a fight with some dictator with nukes.
More specifically, most counties have a County Auditor whose job it is to inspect that the pumps are properly calibrated, and it is reasonable to point your Auditor to an NIST report. Generally, there are stickers on the pump with information on how to contact the County Auditor. A friend of mine got billed for 16 gallons pumped into his 15 gallon tank a couple months ago and raised hell about it. I imagine this type of manipulation is more common than people notice.
Not to mention you wouldn't want anyone to know about it. One of the problems we have in financial research - anything that is "sure" to make money is kept secret so the competition can't beat them to it. Anytime someone an announces free money, you can be pretty sure they're lying.
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Explosive ordinance disposal is one of the best growth areas in security these days. I mean, beyond hooking up some C4 and tossing it on suspect devices, the real skills require explosives experts, and every American we can teach these skills is another bomb making terrorist we can neutralize. No one who goes to this school (assuming their real names and fingerprints are on file) is going to be a risk, and it might inspire them to save some lives instead of going into mining.
As a vet myself, I've spent some time thinking about the pros and cons to this.
First, we raised our standards between the 70's and the 80's for a reason - smart volunteers fight a lot better than desperate inductees. It would be trickier than integration was in the 1950s. The screening process for a foreign military applicant would have to be fairly intense: there are no background checks that are economical, they couldn't receive clearances which are necessary for most specializations, they'd have to be mixed with domestic troops at the right ratios to maintain order, and lastly, you couldn't pay them the same salary as an American soldier (maybe 60% of pay grade?). Plus, you'd probably have to keep them as unpaid E-1's until they can pass all the language skills and cultural literacy tests that would be necessary to maintain good order. And any infraction worth more than a casual Article 15 would require deportation and barring from reentering service.
Being on probation for 4 years would probably be demotivating, and then we'd be letting in a foreigner that's angry at the government. I'd give them a permanent resident status instead of citizenship, because they'd need to live the other side of American life for a few years before they can decide they really love this country.
The best part of this plan is that military planners would actually have to care about how America is perceived by other countries: it would be their key recruiting tool.
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Perhaps more scientifically relevant than the rest, with better anesthesia, but freakish nonetheless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJGlYOL0r4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1263758.stm
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/14/46/whites-anatomy
In other news, Dr. White was my neurosurgeon once a long time ago. I suspect that's where my extra head came from, but you can never really know.
First off, assuming the "demand" for engineers is fixed is ridiculous. Who employs people? In America, its corporations. Who starts or runs corporations? People trained in engineering are the second most likely, after management students of course. So, the people with the highest likelihood of creating excess demand for students are management and engineering students.
Training people to solve other peoples problems, to do so more efficiently or more cheaply is not the problem. If there's not enough employ for such individuals, it has to do with the structure of the market. Inventions still tend to come from engineers, and inventions still tend to make new companies or industries possible. This is what improves technology, productivity, and thus, economic growth.
"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Amendment XIV, US Constitution
IANAL, but doesn't enforcing a contract requiring binding arbitration and barring use of the courts mean "without due process of the law"?
Do you talk to bacteria? Why should they notice our existence, and if they notice, why should they care? When we start to ignite supernovas, they'll probably drop by with a fruitcake to welcome us to the neighborhood.
I'd rather have Teleconglomerate (TM) profit maximizing than have LocalGoverment blocking/monitoring my porn.
You know, at first I thought: "Finally! An ethical source of stem cells! Christians can't argue that parthenogenic embryos are worth saving!"
:)
Then I thought: "Wait, Christians thought a parthenogenic embryo WAS saving..."
A moment later: "Wait, Christians think a parthenogenic embryo can save mankind!"
I will stop thinking there
...typically don't need media attention to complete their lives. Nice to be reminded they're still out there.
Not necessarily a horrible idea. If this is used to power sign lights or something, it could conceivably reduce the transmission loss to make it worthwhile. I'm going to bet that the engineers involved had to take the First Law into account.
While human energy does pollute more per watt than fossil fuels, human energy has the added benefit of making people less fat. Which will increase life expectancies. And I think that's a far more important goal.
This is patently (pun intended) hilarious. When the productivity of farms increases, and fewer people *have* to work on farms to survive, and find *other* productive jobs, this is *not* a bad thing. Supposing your facts are correct, a thousand farmers in India isn't even a village, and pales in comparison to the lives of the MILLIONS of Indians who would otherwise be on the edge of starvation, like they were "a few decades ago". For example, in the then province of Bengal, when in 1943 4 million people starved to death. In 1966, in the province of Bihar, 30 million nearly starved to death, and would have if not for nearly a million tons of food shipped there from the US. As such, only a half million died. In 1974, another Bengali famine killed another million.
Maybe some specific techniques and business practices are unfortunate, but genetically modified crops have saved hundreds of millions of lives. One of the reasons people rarely hear the word "famine" anymore, and are shocked by thousands of people dying is because GM crops have stopped people starving in the millions.
Two words: percussive maintenance.
It always amazes me how, no matter what the technology, when you can't find anything wrong with it, a good beating generally fixes it. Probably because mechanical parts are usually the cause of the problem...
My first thought was "Why can't the US govt pay more to have this designed, prototyped, and fielded within 12 months?"
Think about World War II. In light tanks, went from the M2 tank in 1941 to the M3 in 1942 to the M5 in 1943 to the T7 in late 1943. Meanwhile, the HMMWV (first fielded in '84) has been blown to bits since 2003, being the leading cause of losses in a war, and in 2006 we finally being testing MRAP. I am angry, because my government is more worried about wasting money than winning wars, and about a thousand soldiers have died because of it, and probably 20,000 wounded. If some American has to get rich to save lives and win wars, so be it.
Indirect fire, from mortars and rockets are the number two killer in Iraq. This system might have only saved a few hundred lives. If it makes you feel better about pinching pennies in a war, the cost of fielding the system would be cheaper than the medical expenses, rehabilitation, and other payouts from the 10,000 or so wounded from indirect fire.
My problem with the government is that they're focused on blaming people for mistakes about starting wars instead of fixing the problems in winning them.
He'd notice if everyone who uses P2P (~60 million in the US) contributed $1. 454 Representatives, 100 Senators, 50 Governors, 4 Presidential candidates (with >20%)... Split between 608 politicians, we could buy them for the low, low price of $100,000 each. Shit, I lost more in hourly wages typing that than $1.
Will someone please build a secure GPL system for a standard online political contribution system, so we can have non-profit websites which automatically split your contribution between congresspeople we could influence? Whoever builds and implements this system, with a substantial number of fund raising organizations, I'll pay for the servers. Small price to pay for saving democracy...
If cellulosic ethanol works, say goodbye to things that are mainly made of cellulose, like rainforests. You think Indonesia gives a shit where the ethanol they sell you comes from? There's something much worse than global warming, and that's deforestation. If this technology works, its more dangerous than nuclear power to the ecology, and we need to be very careful who learns how to use it.
Obviously, your politicians think you constituents want lower gas prices instead of a clean lake front. And as they're calculating professionals, they're probably right.
Any CLI in Arabic is atrociously complicated, so you'd need someone who can use computers proficiently (very rare) and can read English proficiently (very rare) and is interested in a trip to Gitmo (very, very rare). The odds of an American reporter accidentally finding something on an FTP site is about a hundred times as likely as an Iraqi terrorist deliberately finding it.
Your post is clearly a plot by the counter-counter-intelligence community of the Iraqi insurgents to convince the US counter-intelligence community that it might be believable if they were to leak plans to the Iraqi insurgent intelligence community. Your argument is about as logical.
You have no idea how scarce manpower is for intelligence and counter-intelligence. If we were half as good at intelligence as you think we are, we would have gotten rid of the bad guys in the Iraqi government and we'd all be praising Bush as an epic visionary who won over the Middle East.
The Bill firstly has to be something that can get out of committee. The Bill was referred to the Cmte on House Administration, which consists of 6 Democrats, and 3 Republicans. Committee is where all the magic happens, with the main edits, and people check on whether its popular enough to get passed. If you think you've got good ideas for the Bill, read the Hearings and a href="contact the Committee members. If your ideas are good enough, you can change the minds of one of these 9 people, and have the law amended.
For more democracy, please contact:
Chairman Rep. Robert A. Brady, PA-1
Ranking Member Rep. Vernon Ehlers, MI-3
Democrats:
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, CA-16
Rep. Mike Capuano, MA-8
Rep. Charles Gonzalez, TX-20
Rep. Susan Davis, CA-53
Rep. Artur Davis, AL-7
Republicans:
Rep. Dan Lungren, CA-3
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, CA-22
I like how the user only has one previous transaction: buying an iPhone.
Breeding takes time, and when pouncing on economic opportunities like the current need for explosives sniffing dogs, speed to market is what will determine how much profit you can make. The point of the article is that these dogs can be delivered this year. If you wait ten years to breed the traits out, the market will already be saturated. Besides, what good American would object to paying $50,000 for an explosives sniffing dog to stop terrorism?
Agreed. Nothing to worry about. It's not like we were going to go to war with China in the next decade or two anyway. If Americans think Iraq is a "disaster," imagine how they will react when we have to pick a fight with some dictator with nukes.
More specifically, most counties have a County Auditor whose job it is to inspect that the pumps are properly calibrated, and it is reasonable to point your Auditor to an NIST report. Generally, there are stickers on the pump with information on how to contact the County Auditor. A friend of mine got billed for 16 gallons pumped into his 15 gallon tank a couple months ago and raised hell about it. I imagine this type of manipulation is more common than people notice.
Not to mention you wouldn't want anyone to know about it. One of the problems we have in financial research - anything that is "sure" to make money is kept secret so the competition can't beat them to it. Anytime someone an announces free money, you can be pretty sure they're lying.
Explosive ordinance disposal is one of the best growth areas in security these days. I mean, beyond hooking up some C4 and tossing it on suspect devices, the real skills require explosives experts, and every American we can teach these skills is another bomb making terrorist we can neutralize. No one who goes to this school (assuming their real names and fingerprints are on file) is going to be a risk, and it might inspire them to save some lives instead of going into mining.
As a vet myself, I've spent some time thinking about the pros and cons to this.
First, we raised our standards between the 70's and the 80's for a reason - smart volunteers fight a lot better than desperate inductees. It would be trickier than integration was in the 1950s. The screening process for a foreign military applicant would have to be fairly intense: there are no background checks that are economical, they couldn't receive clearances which are necessary for most specializations, they'd have to be mixed with domestic troops at the right ratios to maintain order, and lastly, you couldn't pay them the same salary as an American soldier (maybe 60% of pay grade?). Plus, you'd probably have to keep them as unpaid E-1's until they can pass all the language skills and cultural literacy tests that would be necessary to maintain good order. And any infraction worth more than a casual Article 15 would require deportation and barring from reentering service.
Being on probation for 4 years would probably be demotivating, and then we'd be letting in a foreigner that's angry at the government. I'd give them a permanent resident status instead of citizenship, because they'd need to live the other side of American life for a few years before they can decide they really love this country.
The best part of this plan is that military planners would actually have to care about how America is perceived by other countries: it would be their key recruiting tool.