An Arleigh-Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer carries 90 cruise missiles. I don't know how long replenishment takes, but I suspect you can't fire 200 in 20 days.
Been though of. Yeah, a bajillion g's breaks anything worth sending into orbit, unless its a kinetic slug. Hitting something as small as a satellite or a rocket is unlikely though.
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 allows companies to sell such a substance after proving only that it has no "significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury." If they sell it in the indication that it be used in 10 mg pills, and then a study indicates that 100mg is the best dose, then people can just take 10 pills. You don't need a patent to sell something. In other news, thousands of people die from aspirin and acetaminophen misuse each year, but they aren't illegal.
Considering we're talking about a billion dollars, there are plenty of actual islands that might be available for the price.
1 - Pitcairn Pop: 67 Area: 5 km^2 Sovereign: UK technically, New Zealand de facto Pros: Inhabited by mutineers. Argh! Cons: Inhabited by mutineers
2 - Pretty much anywhere in Indonesia 17,508 islands, and one desperate need for a billion dollars Pros: Indonesian government will probably sell you slaves too Cons: Indonesians will probably try to kill you from speedboats
3 - Clipperton Island Pop: 0 Area: 6 km^2 Sovereign: France Pros: National joke of France as it's most important overseas territory. Significant guano deposits. Cons: It still smells of French. Also, tuna fishing actually makes it profitable
4 - The "Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean" Pop: 0 Area: 28, 5, 4.4,.8,.2 (total:38.6) km^2 Sovereign: France Pros: Airfield, near a continent, descriptive name Cons: Madagascar tried to annex them, so there are now 14 French soldat stationed on most islands. Tromelin is stationed by fearsome weathermen
5 - Jan Mayen Pop: 0 Area: 377 km^2 Sovereign: Norway Pros: Active volcano Cons: Active volcano
6 - Bouvet Island Pop: 0 Area: 49 km^2 Sovereign: Norway Pros: Not much interest in the place Cons: Frozen over, generally impossible to get to on account of ice
7 - Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen Pop: 0 Area: 7,829 km^2 all together Sovereign: France Pros: Giant landmass... relatively speaking Cons: Lots of fishing grounds, so may be too profitable to sell
8 - Heard Island and McDonald Islands Pop: 0 Area: 412 km^2 Sovereign: UK, administered by Australia Pros: Features an island named "Shag Island," widely believed to be the secret hideout of Austin Powers Cons: Technically a nature preserve
9 - Spratly Islands Pop: 0 Area: 5 km^2 Pros: Near China Con: Every nearby country, including China, claims them
10 - U.S. Pacific Islands Wildlife Refuge Pop: 0 Area: 22.4 km^2 Pros: Wildlife Cons: US owned, and hippies will protest purchase
Or on a bet that IBM might buy them out to cease paying >$25 mil in legal fees... In a no arbitrage argument, the lower bound of SCO's value is the cost of the next best option for IBM. This implies that SCO has a maximum of 40:1 odds...
Compare to conventional lightbulbs. Same size, much more fragile, and cost $.77 per four pack. If WalMart can cut its floorspace by 90% and losses by damage by some similar number, not only will it make better margins on the CFLs, it will save a buttload on eliminating the incandescents.
I am optimistic that the writing is on the wall, and politicians will finally start funding these initiatives like the country depends on it. I'm thinking something like the Peace Corps that gives out scholarships to tens of thousands of engineers and scientists in exchange for a few years working on the country's biggest energy and ecological problems. "Lose" a few billion dollars to educate, train and motivate a giant part of America - that's my kind of trade-off.
Human beings have always found incentives to clean up their act at some point. Our history has already seen most of the world discard once common norms: murder, human sacrifice, slavery and serfdom, factories from "The Jungle," genocide, child prostitution, etc.
We've already killed off most of the large animals, deforested most of the planet, and yet somehow, we're thriving. If the world is warming, we'll find solutions. Cheap electronic Hebrew-Arabic translators and desalination might stop the Palestinian conflict.
We invent our way out of problems, we don't give up and ask for mass euthanasia. That would be regressing to one of those discarded norms.
Yes. But this keeps him from being charged for fraud. "Three elements are required to prove fraud: a material false statement made with an intent to deceive (scienter), a victim's reliance on the statement and damages." Clearly, the first two occurred. If this were done last year, Jobs would already be packing up his office, because of the increased burden of proof thanks to SOX. The question then is if the financial statements issued back then violated the accounting standards of the day.
Of course, creative lawyers will bring civil lawsuits on behalf of shareholders saying that there was damages in some other method.
We're not reliving 1999-2001, we're reliving 1996-1998. The difference is Google, Myspace and YouTube are actual phenomena, unlike Webvan or Pets.com. Myspace is possibly the most popular property on the Internet, and YouTube is the leader of video, which Tech/Telco/Media has been buzzing about for the last ten years. Ebay and Amazon, Internet success stories, are barely fighting off sites like Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia, and Blogger.
Baidu, Digg, Flickr, Orkut, Tencent QQ, Photobucket et al are probably going to be worth buying sometime. Get worried when you see sites like LinkedIn and Evite in the news...
Much of those heavier hydrocarbons are "cracked" into smaller, gasoline weight hydrocarbons. Which, incidentally, makes gasoline and those products more expensive compared to consuming them in their natural ratios. Reducing gasoline usage would make those products cheaper with the same amount of oil, and of course, reduced oil demand would bring down crude prices and make those products cheaper still.
Considering how little soldiers get paid (starting at $1,204 per month), and how much engineers get paid (~$3,500 per month starting), you start wondering who the Defense Department's priorities are...
If saving these dolphins "only" cost $10,000,000, remember that there are many places on Earth where the lives of a family could be saved for $1000. Would you rather save ten dolphins, or ten thousand human families?
Keeping in mind that most homicides are either based on either romantic relationship or criminal relationships, the best way to reduce gun deaths is to keep people from dating or breaking the law...
If it was so easy for guys with tanks and automatic weaponry to go down K Street looking for a guy with a handgun, you'd have a point. In an insurgency, the insurgent's objective isn't to kill the enemy in power, just to show everyone that the "enemy in power" really isn't in control. Sure, you could do it with a machete, a protest march, or a car bomb, but guns are how you intimidate people face to face. Intimidating your neighborhood is how no one squeals to the guys with tanks.
If it were so easy for the cops to find murderers, they wouldn't need to propose these gun bans. The minutemen militias were guerrilla fighters as well - they acquired the training and artillery later. People in tanks can defect, or mutiny, or let their guard down when at their daughter's birthday party. Civil wars can be very, very ugly.
1. why aren't companies like Pfizer investing in it? (probably they are?)
Pfizer is a pharmaceutical company - their objective is selling drugs, not saving lives. Pfizer's revenue is $12.3 billion, the US government's revenue is $2.8 trillion. Pfizer isn't very well run, and neither is the Federal government (compared to best US business practices - compared to other countries, they're both great). Pfizer's incentives are in trying to limit effects of obesity, the Government wants fewer soldiers to die because they're expensive to train, and had to keep of TV when they die. Given the incentive structures, I'd rather have the DOD investing in combat medicine than Pfizer.
If you really care about how your money is being spent, why not vote for someone who is a budget hawk? Vote them into local office, then state office, then Federal office. Otherwise no one else will.
Hmm... let's compare: would you rather be shot in the head, or risk having a 'hot spot' when the military is trying to use non-lethal force? Though, to be fair, the first might not be an option - you might get "hit by grenade" instead.
I'm not sure what the actual market concentrations are, but I'm going to guess something like 30%, 30%, 30%, 10% in the market (Nvidia, ATI, Intel, other). That leaves an HHI of.28, which is high but not usually good enough for antitrust action. In comparison, in the x86 processor market, the HHI is closer to.64 (duopoly), for storage about.18, and for memory about.16. Even if there were shady practices going on, its likely no individual firm had enough market power to merit antitrust charges.
Egypt has had a long history, but not completely unbroken. Assyrians conquered Egypt in 670 BC, and of course Alexander did again in 332 BC. But long before that, technologies had good chances of being lost. They had plenty of opportunities to lose everything in civil wars around 2400's BC, the First Intermediate Period around 2200's BC, or if it lasted that long, when the Hyksos invaded in 1600's BC.
3,500 years is a loooong time for even one series of dynasties to rule. The Great Pyramid was from the 4th dynasty, and Alexander conquered the 31st dynasty. Almost certainly, this knowledge was destroyed before Alexandria was founded.
Yes. If $20 billion made a real fusion project, every oil company would be killing each other to get in on it. The ROI on that project is immense, and their shares and options would go through the roof. Not to mention the positive publicity...
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An Arleigh-Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer carries 90 cruise missiles. I don't know how long replenishment takes, but I suspect you can't fire 200 in 20 days.
Been though of. Yeah, a bajillion g's breaks anything worth sending into orbit, unless its a kinetic slug. Hitting something as small as a satellite or a rocket is unlikely though.
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 allows companies to sell such a substance after proving only that it has no "significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury." If they sell it in the indication that it be used in 10 mg pills, and then a study indicates that 100mg is the best dose, then people can just take 10 pills. You don't need a patent to sell something. In other news, thousands of people die from aspirin and acetaminophen misuse each year, but they aren't illegal.
Considering we're talking about a billion dollars, there are plenty of actual islands that might be available for the price.
.8, .2 (total:38.6) km^2
1 - Pitcairn
Pop: 67 Area: 5 km^2
Sovereign: UK technically, New Zealand de facto
Pros: Inhabited by mutineers. Argh!
Cons: Inhabited by mutineers
2 - Pretty much anywhere in Indonesia
17,508 islands, and one desperate need for a billion dollars
Pros: Indonesian government will probably sell you slaves too
Cons: Indonesians will probably try to kill you from speedboats
3 - Clipperton Island
Pop: 0 Area: 6 km^2
Sovereign: France
Pros: National joke of France as it's most important overseas territory. Significant guano deposits.
Cons: It still smells of French. Also, tuna fishing actually makes it profitable
4 - The "Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean"
Pop: 0 Area: 28, 5, 4.4,
Sovereign: France
Pros: Airfield, near a continent, descriptive name
Cons: Madagascar tried to annex them, so there are now 14 French soldat stationed on most islands. Tromelin is stationed by fearsome weathermen
5 - Jan Mayen
Pop: 0 Area: 377 km^2
Sovereign: Norway
Pros: Active volcano
Cons: Active volcano
6 - Bouvet Island
Pop: 0 Area: 49 km^2
Sovereign: Norway
Pros: Not much interest in the place
Cons: Frozen over, generally impossible to get to on account of ice
7 - Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen
Pop: 0 Area: 7,829 km^2 all together
Sovereign: France
Pros: Giant landmass... relatively speaking
Cons: Lots of fishing grounds, so may be too profitable to sell
8 - Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Pop: 0 Area: 412 km^2
Sovereign: UK, administered by Australia
Pros: Features an island named "Shag Island," widely believed to be the secret hideout of Austin Powers
Cons: Technically a nature preserve
9 - Spratly Islands
Pop: 0 Area: 5 km^2
Pros: Near China
Con: Every nearby country, including China, claims them
10 - U.S. Pacific Islands Wildlife Refuge
Pop: 0 Area: 22.4 km^2
Pros: Wildlife
Cons: US owned, and hippies will protest purchase
Or on a bet that IBM might buy them out to cease paying >$25 mil in legal fees... In a no arbitrage argument, the lower bound of SCO's value is the cost of the next best option for IBM. This implies that SCO has a maximum of 40:1 odds...
Compare to conventional lightbulbs. Same size, much more fragile, and cost $.77 per four pack. If WalMart can cut its floorspace by 90% and losses by damage by some similar number, not only will it make better margins on the CFLs, it will save a buttload on eliminating the incandescents.
I am optimistic that the writing is on the wall, and politicians will finally start funding these initiatives like the country depends on it. I'm thinking something like the Peace Corps that gives out scholarships to tens of thousands of engineers and scientists in exchange for a few years working on the country's biggest energy and ecological problems. "Lose" a few billion dollars to educate, train and motivate a giant part of America - that's my kind of trade-off.
Human beings have always found incentives to clean up their act at some point. Our history has already seen most of the world discard once common norms: murder, human sacrifice, slavery and serfdom, factories from "The Jungle," genocide, child prostitution, etc.
We've already killed off most of the large animals, deforested most of the planet, and yet somehow, we're thriving. If the world is warming, we'll find solutions. Cheap electronic Hebrew-Arabic translators and desalination might stop the Palestinian conflict.
We invent our way out of problems, we don't give up and ask for mass euthanasia. That would be regressing to one of those discarded norms.
Motivation and political will are the driving forces. It just so happens that we don't have those unless we're being threatened.
Yes. But this keeps him from being charged for fraud. "Three elements are required to prove fraud: a material false statement made with an intent to deceive (scienter), a victim's reliance on the statement and damages." Clearly, the first two occurred. If this were done last year, Jobs would already be packing up his office, because of the increased burden of proof thanks to SOX. The question then is if the financial statements issued back then violated the accounting standards of the day.
Of course, creative lawyers will bring civil lawsuits on behalf of shareholders saying that there was damages in some other method.
We're not reliving 1999-2001, we're reliving 1996-1998. The difference is Google, Myspace and YouTube are actual phenomena, unlike Webvan or Pets.com. Myspace is possibly the most popular property on the Internet, and YouTube is the leader of video, which Tech/Telco/Media has been buzzing about for the last ten years. Ebay and Amazon, Internet success stories, are barely fighting off sites like Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia, and Blogger.
Baidu, Digg, Flickr, Orkut, Tencent QQ, Photobucket et al are probably going to be worth buying sometime. Get worried when you see sites like LinkedIn and Evite in the news...
Much of those heavier hydrocarbons are "cracked" into smaller, gasoline weight hydrocarbons. Which, incidentally, makes gasoline and those products more expensive compared to consuming them in their natural ratios. Reducing gasoline usage would make those products cheaper with the same amount of oil, and of course, reduced oil demand would bring down crude prices and make those products cheaper still.
Indeed. Our problem isn't that everybody is stupid, it's that everybody is responsible for funding and administering education...
Personnel still get most of the money.
"The nearly $440 billion defense budget contains $110.8 billion for military personnel, including a modest 2.2 percent pay increase, as well as $84.2 billion for weapons systems and $73.2 billion for research and development."
Considering how little soldiers get paid (starting at $1,204 per month), and how much engineers get paid (~$3,500 per month starting), you start wondering who the Defense Department's priorities are...
If saving these dolphins "only" cost $10,000,000, remember that there are many places on Earth where the lives of a family could be saved for $1000. Would you rather save ten dolphins, or ten thousand human families?
Keeping in mind that most homicides are either based on either romantic relationship or criminal relationships, the best way to reduce gun deaths is to keep people from dating or breaking the law...
If it was so easy for guys with tanks and automatic weaponry to go down K Street looking for a guy with a handgun, you'd have a point. In an insurgency, the insurgent's objective isn't to kill the enemy in power, just to show everyone that the "enemy in power" really isn't in control. Sure, you could do it with a machete, a protest march, or a car bomb, but guns are how you intimidate people face to face. Intimidating your neighborhood is how no one squeals to the guys with tanks.
If it were so easy for the cops to find murderers, they wouldn't need to propose these gun bans. The minutemen militias were guerrilla fighters as well - they acquired the training and artillery later. People in tanks can defect, or mutiny, or let their guard down when at their daughter's birthday party. Civil wars can be very, very ugly.
1. why aren't companies like Pfizer investing in it? (probably they are?)
Pfizer is a pharmaceutical company - their objective is selling drugs, not saving lives. Pfizer's revenue is $12.3 billion, the US government's revenue is $2.8 trillion. Pfizer isn't very well run, and neither is the Federal government (compared to best US business practices - compared to other countries, they're both great). Pfizer's incentives are in trying to limit effects of obesity, the Government wants fewer soldiers to die because they're expensive to train, and had to keep of TV when they die. Given the incentive structures, I'd rather have the DOD investing in combat medicine than Pfizer.
If you really care about how your money is being spent, why not vote for someone who is a budget hawk? Vote them into local office, then state office, then Federal office. Otherwise no one else will.
Hmm... let's compare: would you rather be shot in the head, or risk having a 'hot spot' when the military is trying to use non-lethal force? Though, to be fair, the first might not be an option - you might get "hit by grenade" instead.
I'm not sure what the actual market concentrations are, but I'm going to guess something like 30%, 30%, 30%, 10% in the market (Nvidia, ATI, Intel, other). That leaves an HHI of .28, which is high but not usually good enough for antitrust action. In comparison, in the x86 processor market, the HHI is closer to .64 (duopoly), for storage about .18, and for memory about .16. Even if there were shady practices going on, its likely no individual firm had enough market power to merit antitrust charges.
Egypt has had a long history, but not completely unbroken. Assyrians conquered Egypt in 670 BC, and of course Alexander did again in 332 BC. But long before that, technologies had good chances of being lost. They had plenty of opportunities to lose everything in civil wars around 2400's BC, the First Intermediate Period around 2200's BC, or if it lasted that long, when the Hyksos invaded in 1600's BC.
3,500 years is a loooong time for even one series of dynasties to rule. The Great Pyramid was from the 4th dynasty, and Alexander conquered the 31st dynasty. Almost certainly, this knowledge was destroyed before Alexandria was founded.
as soon as Bill stops getting paid to be outrageous.
4.4% unemployment rate right now. If you can get the job you want, why stay in school?
Half of high school graduates go to college, and half of them graduate. And many college graduates get jobs that don't require degrees too.
Yes. If $20 billion made a real fusion project, every oil company would be killing each other to get in on it. The ROI on that project is immense, and their shares and options would go through the roof. Not to mention the positive publicity...
They're not fools, which is why their nuclear team is building a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to stay competitive. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867 ,20676070-31037,00.html