Not so so much in Michigan, there is quite a bit of role reversal here. In Michigan to be a Democrat, means you have to have the Union vote and the UAW pretty much votes as a block and votes Democrat. The result is your not going to run as a Democrat unless you do what's best for the UAW, and that's generally doing what's best for GM/Ford/DC/Toyota that employs the union members. Right now our republican gubanatorial candidate is Dick DeVos who was President of "Alticor reported sales of $4.5 billion, primarily through its more than 3.5 million mostly part-time sales force and its complimentary e-commerce channel " is certainly going to be someone who understands the power of networking either physically or virtually. Also interesting is that it's corp practice for DeVos companies to be debt-free so running $4.5 billion in sales at zero long-term debt is very impressive in anyone's book.
I thought the state of the art bleeding edge in diamond fabrication involved multiple techniques , such as a CVD diamond being cyrstalised to the desired weight, then tempered in a HPHT device to improve its optical and electrical properties. Actually I think you've gotten the two reversed, but the thing I'm awaiting with bated breath is an eyeglasses lens that has a chance of remaining usably scratch free untill your Rx changes!
Many would argue that the only reason a dirt-dug diamond from the DeBeers Corp is more expensive is because DeBeers goes to great lengths to create both artificial demand through marketing and artifical scarcety through the almost complete monopoly control of the diamond business
My guess would be that because diamonds have sp3 bonding, that they would burn with a hot sooty fire like acetelyene would, so theoreticaly would could tell diamonds from CZ by burning them! YMMV
I used to sell car stereos at the flea market, there was one guy who would buy one every week! One day I followed him out to the parking lot and he was installing it into his motorcycle to take into Canada without declairing it, and that's right he worked for Canadian Customs
This will not protect you from the terrorists. because it can be snooped, cloned will answer to anybody, can be left at home, can be traded with somebody else's. Make it cyrptographicaly secure and implanted into the body Muhahahaha....
RFID is particularly useful where it can be embedded within an object, such as a shipping container.... Miners or firefighters might be appropriately identified using RFID because speed of identification is at a premium in dangerous situations and the need to verify the connection between a card and bearer is low. But for other applications related to human beings, RFID appears to offer little benefit when compared to the consequences it brings for privacy and data integrity. Instead, it increases risks to personal privacy and security, with no commensurate benefit for performance or national security. Most difficult and troubling is the situation in which RFID is ostensibly used for tracking objects (medicine containers, for example), but can be in fact used for monitoring human behavior.
These types of uses are still being explored and remain difficult to predict. For these reasons, we recommend that RFID be disfavored for identifying and tracking human beings. When DHS does choose to use RFID to identify and track individuals, we recommend the implementation of the specific security and privacy safeguards described herein.
I read this as saying that when the technology improves to the point where a chip can be challenged and only reply to a cryptographicaly correct handshaking protocol and replies in a encrypted form; It's a done deal, especialy if they can figure out a way to convince people to have them implanted inside them. We just had our dog chipped!
No actually it is (or at least was) the other way arround, the US Photographers could buy Japanese cameras in the US cheaper than the japanese could in Japan, and we didn't call it grey-market we called it dumping.
OOHH, I got some yummies troll-cookies to feed you! If your solving Newtonian physics for three bodies in orbit, there are some people over at NASA and teh Nobel committee that would like to talk to you; because right now we can solve two bodies, and approximate three bodies, but your doing clusters, dude you rock.
yeah extremely high stamina, but charisma, kids? Generally the porblem with their stamina is their lack of charisma; do you have any idea how many questions a sugar-rushed three year old can ask in five minutes?
They already have all kinds of filters, most porn sites have pages devoted to how to install content filters, and most reputable porn (OK Don't laugh) have the meta info to allow those filtes to work. The truth is pre-adults can't legally spend money on the internet, so why waste the bandwidth on them?
I think a bigger problem is equal protection under the law clause, for example in NYC it's perfectly legal for a woman or a man to be in public, on the street with their breasts exposed but it's illegal for a television station in NYC to show the woman's breasts to their audience in NYC! The concept that equal content can be illegal or legal depending on how it's delivered is just crazy.
A couple points, firstly you don't own the land, just a set of property rights to it; frequently these rights don't include mineral rights. What is and isn't included in the rights you own can frequently keep lawyers employed for long periods. The Native Americans Tribes are generally considered sovereign nations and what we actually own property rights wise is often the result of treaties between the Tribe and the USG. I doubt many Tribes transfered title of the scared sites to the USG, at least not unless they were under extreme duress.
obviously the "easiest" way would be to put a cable factory into geosync orbit then and make the cables, then there are two different ways to do it; 1. make two cables one going down, and one going up to counter-ballance. after a while the downward bound cable touches the ground and gets tied off you keep making the downward a bit longer to stand-off the countermass from the geosync point. Then if possible You then add mass to counter-ballance and reel in the counter-mass cable as you go. once the counter-ballance cable is all reeled in, you detach it and fly it over to elevator station 2. 2. you take a reeled cable manufactured is space and carefully unreel it to the ground while keeping the center of gravity at geosyncronus orbit.
This is conceptually simple and elegent, but the engineering will be mind-boglingly difficult, I doubt it'll ever happen because we've never have a material with enough strength to mass ratio. Imagine how much static electricity a cable that long would gather, it would be the world's tallest lightning rod.
It's a matter of cost/benefits ratios, when the last time you went to a retailer and swiped the CC in the reader and nothing, clerk says something stupid like, "wrap the card in paper and try again" nothing, " hold it the other way and try a again"? The problem is they got a bad card reader, it's probably wornout after 6 months and needs replacing and it's expensive, and it's not on corporates budget for 6 more months. The bottom line is the retail corporation has judged the costs of using RFID credit cards and the increased charge-backs to be less then the costs of keeping the card-swipe readers working. The credit card companies are judging the cost of doing encryption processing to be more than the marginal savings from using ineffective security.
The only way this will change is if the states figure out someway to keep them from deducting the sales tax back off the books for charge-backs; punish them for bad security.
Chernobyl and Windscale were both graphite moderated reactor, graphite reactors are pretty much time bombs because they are extremely difficult to shutdown. The Windscale graphite reactor was air cooled a design notorius for catching on fire, the Chenobyl design was water cooled, but the control rods would under certain conditions increase thermal output rather than decrease it! Three Mile Island was a scarey commedy of errors, but in the end didn't really do anything other than destrying itself.
The short answer is yes the energy is too small, or at least too short, the really hot stuff doesn't last long enough and the long-lasting stuff isn't hot enough. 241Pu would be hot enough to generate some usefull energy, but because it so radioactive, it's very expensive to work with and the energy would never be cost effective. Something I'd consider more likely would be using radioative or at least heavy elements to catalyse electolytic hydrogen production somehow.
Most people think very short-term, like you, some people think longer term. Your thinking about the effects durring one lifetime, people who amass 8 and 9 digit fortunes tend to think along the terms of 3 and 4 lifetimes and that fortune is often the result of 3 and 4 generations of effort. To people who think like this, an inhertitence tax is like stealing the food out of their children's mouths, they are going to protect that money. Right now there is a whole industry devoted to protecting a person legacy from the taxman, so it could easily be argued that inheritence taxes just redisturbute the wealth from the rich to the upper-middle class lawyers and accountants anyways.
You mean like the United States and the Kennedy's? Seriously my Boss was born in El Salvidor and grew up during a ten year communist revolution, he's seen first hand the effects of punitive inheritence taxes, forced land redistribution schemes, What really happens when farmers are prohibited form automating the production because it might reduce menial farm jobs and a whole raft of commie/liberal appeasment policies and it ain't pretty. Some very close friends of mine won $209 Million in the mega-millions lottery, that means after lump-sum and taxes, they got $89 Million Check; that money isn't sitting in a matteress collecting mold, it's in a wealth-management account, being invested in our economy. The money is being used in a whole spectrum of stocks, bonds and even a direct investment by purchasing a small business. Sure all these redistribution schemes seem to sound nice on an emotive level, at least when your among the nine hunger cannibles voting to eat number ten, but they don't work in practice. You need to take an Economics course and try to stsay awake when they talk about the multiplier effect.
Anyone in a position to pay the estate tax who has the gall to openly complain about it should think long and hard about the society we have, and the condition in which most of humanity exists elsewhere.
Perhaps the one reason most of humanity is in the condition it's in is because most of humanity isn't able to provide a proper legacy for their offspring. Why not admit that those stable institutions would be unlikely to exist if it were not for a societal value system of investing in the future. A society that has puntitive inheritence taxes would seem likely to be one that slips into promiscuious consuption, like those societies with execessive inflation rates. Even Gates has established a charitable foundation, a manuver designed to keep the rable from allocating his legacy rather than him.
Currency transactions can easily be taxable, there are many people who trade currencies like other might trade stocks and bonds. When I was stationed in germany, the rise and fall of the Mark compared to the Dollar was generally predictable, German companies would bid up the Dollars so they'd have them for foriegn trade, and the Dollar would fall as they sold of their holdings to pay their taxes in Marks, If you had the capital it was easy to make money simpley by buying and sell in counter-cycle.
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Not so so much in Michigan, there is quite a bit of role reversal here. In Michigan to be a Democrat, means you have to have the Union vote and the UAW pretty much votes as a block and votes Democrat. The result is your not going to run as a Democrat unless you do what's best for the UAW, and that's generally doing what's best for GM/Ford/DC/Toyota that employs the union members. Right now our republican gubanatorial candidate is Dick DeVos who was President of "Alticor reported sales of $4.5 billion, primarily through its more than 3.5 million mostly part-time sales force and its complimentary e-commerce channel " is certainly going to be someone who understands the power of networking either physically or virtually. Also interesting is that it's corp practice for DeVos companies to be debt-free so running $4.5 billion in sales at zero long-term debt is very impressive in anyone's book.
I thought the state of the art bleeding edge in diamond fabrication involved multiple techniques , such as a CVD diamond being cyrstalised to the desired weight, then tempered in a HPHT device to improve its optical and electrical properties. Actually I think you've gotten the two reversed, but the thing I'm awaiting with bated breath is an eyeglasses lens that has a chance of remaining usably scratch free untill your Rx changes!
Many would argue that the only reason a dirt-dug diamond from the DeBeers Corp is more expensive is because DeBeers goes to great lengths to create both artificial demand through marketing and artifical scarcety through the almost complete monopoly control of the diamond business
My guess would be that because diamonds have sp3 bonding, that they would burn with a hot sooty fire like acetelyene would, so theoreticaly would could tell diamonds from CZ by burning them! YMMV
I used to sell car stereos at the flea market, there was one guy who would buy one every week! One day I followed him out to the parking lot and he was installing it into his motorcycle to take into Canada without declairing it, and that's right he worked for Canadian Customs
What a waste, Jägermeister shouldn't be mixed with anything and sipped not shoot, you've no taste at all.
how about Arnie wrapping his head in a wet towel and pulling a ping-pong ball out of his nose?
This will not protect you from the terrorists. because it can be snooped, cloned will answer to anybody, can be left at home, can be traded with somebody else's. Make it cyrptographicaly secure and implanted into the body Muhahahaha ....
I think you posted that on the wrong forum; but it was not only appropos but deep!
I read this as saying that when the technology improves to the point where a chip can be challenged and only reply to a cryptographicaly correct handshaking protocol and replies in a encrypted form; It's a done deal, especialy if they can figure out a way to convince people to have them implanted inside them. We just had our dog chipped!
No actually it is (or at least was) the other way arround, the US Photographers could buy Japanese cameras in the US cheaper than the japanese could in Japan, and we didn't call it grey-market we called it dumping.
OOHH, I got some yummies troll-cookies to feed you! If your solving Newtonian physics for three bodies in orbit, there are some people over at NASA and teh Nobel committee that would like to talk to you; because right now we can solve two bodies, and approximate three bodies, but your doing clusters, dude you rock.
yeah extremely high stamina, but charisma, kids? Generally the porblem with their stamina is their lack of charisma; do you have any idea how many questions a sugar-rushed three year old can ask in five minutes?
They already have all kinds of filters, most porn sites have pages devoted to how to install content filters, and most reputable porn (OK Don't laugh) have the meta info to allow those filtes to work. The truth is pre-adults can't legally spend money on the internet, so why waste the bandwidth on them?
I think a bigger problem is equal protection under the law clause, for example in NYC it's perfectly legal for a woman or a man to be in public, on the street with their breasts exposed but it's illegal for a television station in NYC to show the woman's breasts to their audience in NYC! The concept that equal content can be illegal or legal depending on how it's delivered is just crazy.
yes, that's obvious
A couple points, firstly you don't own the land, just a set of property rights to it; frequently these rights don't include mineral rights. What is and isn't included in the rights you own can frequently keep lawyers employed for long periods. The Native Americans Tribes are generally considered sovereign nations and what we actually own property rights wise is often the result of treaties between the Tribe and the USG. I doubt many Tribes transfered title of the scared sites to the USG, at least not unless they were under extreme duress.
obviously the "easiest" way would be to put a cable factory into geosync orbit then and make the cables, then there are two different ways to do it;
1. make two cables one going down, and one going up to counter-ballance. after a while the downward bound cable touches the ground and gets tied off you keep making the downward a bit longer to stand-off the countermass from the geosync point. Then if possible You then add mass to counter-ballance and reel in the counter-mass cable as you go. once the counter-ballance cable is all reeled in, you detach it and fly it over to elevator station 2.
2. you take a reeled cable manufactured is space and carefully unreel it to the ground while keeping the center of gravity at geosyncronus orbit.
This is conceptually simple and elegent, but the engineering will be mind-boglingly difficult, I doubt it'll ever happen because we've never have a material with enough strength to mass ratio. Imagine how much static electricity a cable that long would gather, it would be the world's tallest lightning rod.
It's a matter of cost/benefits ratios, when the last time you went to a retailer and swiped the CC in the reader and nothing, clerk says something stupid like, "wrap the card in paper and try again" nothing, " hold it the other way and try a again"? The problem is they got a bad card reader, it's probably wornout after 6 months and needs replacing and it's expensive, and it's not on corporates budget for 6 more months. The bottom line is the retail corporation has judged the costs of using RFID credit cards and the increased charge-backs to be less then the costs of keeping the card-swipe readers working. The credit card companies are judging the cost of doing encryption processing to be more than the marginal savings from using ineffective security.
The only way this will change is if the states figure out someway to keep them from deducting the sales tax back off the books for charge-backs; punish them for bad security.
Chernobyl and Windscale were both graphite moderated reactor, graphite reactors are pretty much time bombs because they are extremely difficult to shutdown. The Windscale graphite reactor was air cooled a design notorius for catching on fire, the Chenobyl design was water cooled, but the control rods would under certain conditions increase thermal output rather than decrease it! Three Mile Island was a scarey commedy of errors, but in the end didn't really do anything other than destrying itself.
The short answer is yes the energy is too small, or at least too short, the really hot stuff doesn't last long enough and the long-lasting stuff isn't hot enough. 241Pu would be hot enough to generate some usefull energy, but because it so radioactive, it's very expensive to work with and the energy would never be cost effective. Something I'd consider more likely would be using radioative or at least heavy elements to catalyse electolytic hydrogen production somehow.
Most people think very short-term, like you, some people think longer term. Your thinking about the effects durring one lifetime, people who amass 8 and 9 digit fortunes tend to think along the terms of 3 and 4 lifetimes and that fortune is often the result of 3 and 4 generations of effort. To people who think like this, an inhertitence tax is like stealing the food out of their children's mouths, they are going to protect that money. Right now there is a whole industry devoted to protecting a person legacy from the taxman, so it could easily be argued that inheritence taxes just redisturbute the wealth from the rich to the upper-middle class lawyers and accountants anyways.
You mean like the United States and the Kennedy's? Seriously my Boss was born in El Salvidor and grew up during a ten year communist revolution, he's seen first hand the effects of punitive inheritence taxes, forced land redistribution schemes, What really happens when farmers are prohibited form automating the production because it might reduce menial farm jobs and a whole raft of commie/liberal appeasment policies and it ain't pretty. Some very close friends of mine won $209 Million in the mega-millions lottery, that means after lump-sum and taxes, they got $89 Million Check; that money isn't sitting in a matteress collecting mold, it's in a wealth-management account, being invested in our economy. The money is being used in a whole spectrum of stocks, bonds and even a direct investment by purchasing a small business. Sure all these redistribution schemes seem to sound nice on an emotive level, at least when your among the nine hunger cannibles voting to eat number ten, but they don't work in practice. You need to take an Economics course and try to stsay awake when they talk about the multiplier effect.
Anyone in a position to pay the estate tax who has the gall to openly complain about it should think long and hard about the society we have, and the condition in which most of humanity exists elsewhere.
Perhaps the one reason most of humanity is in the condition it's in is because most of humanity isn't able to provide a proper legacy for their offspring. Why not admit that those stable institutions would be unlikely to exist if it were not for a societal value system of investing in the future. A society that has puntitive inheritence taxes would seem likely to be one that slips into promiscuious consuption, like those societies with execessive inflation rates. Even Gates has established a charitable foundation, a manuver designed to keep the rable from allocating his legacy rather than him.
Currency transactions can easily be taxable, there are many people who trade currencies like other might trade stocks and bonds. When I was stationed in germany, the rise and fall of the Mark compared to the Dollar was generally predictable, German companies would bid up the Dollars so they'd have them for foriegn trade, and the Dollar would fall as they sold of their holdings to pay their taxes in Marks, If you had the capital it was easy to make money simpley by buying and sell in counter-cycle.