The GP is right, I could build a youtube clone in about a month, but what's the point if nobody looks at it.
Is it worth $1.5 billion for those people? Well the dollar is falling, that's inflation for you. You never know, perhaps potential buyers will make a lower counter offer.
Actually the 466 billion you mention is for the Department of Defense, it doesn't include the spending on the War on Terror, the Coast Guard, the National Nuclear Security Administration and a bunch of other spending which is basically national defense. If you total them up, it works out that the US spends about 630 billion on defense.
What they're trying to do is errect what is essentially trade barriers, it'll allow the telcos to charge more for the free trade service that we currently enjoy. It's indicative of a lack of competition in the market. Does the US have the equivalent of the competition commission? Perhaps the telcos should be required to unbundle their exchanges.
Looks like they are. In which case it's up to ISPs, entrepeneurs, co-operatives to grab the oportunity and start taking business away from the incumbents.
When everyone has patents, the worth of an individual patent is reduced effectively to zero. I recommend that all IT companies apply for as many patents as you can afford, don't bother with patent lawyers and the like, just make vaguely unique things up and apply because the value of a patent is that you have one which others don't. If you can threaten them the way they are threatening you the value is lost.
Mwhahaha, I lived there for years and nope, it doesn't.
look, public transport is an edge case. It only works for about 10% of journeys, the other 90% of journeys are by other means. If you don't live near a station or if your destination isn't near a station, public transport is close to useless... Conventional public transport anyway, Personal Rapid Transit has the potential to be useful to a decent percentage of the population, 40% or so.
Actually, California has just announced a cap'n trade market for carbon dioxide pollution. It's essentially a market in permission to pollute. So if you buy enough permissions, you can pollute as much as you like.
Simply add fuel producers to the cap and trade system. Instead of the money going into the government coffers, it goes directly to their greener, non fossil fuel using competitors, (including the biomass based fuel producers).
So no, raising the price of gasoline is an utterly inefficient way of doing anything other than causing inflation.
Inflation is caused by government borrowing and money creation, it's the result of the supply and demand for money, as the supply increases, the value decreases and things start costing more.
Like most market based solutions, they just don't work.
Or better yet, mandate that the fuel producers join the new Californian Cap and Trade system. High prices pretty effectively move people away from the big 2 gallons per mile machines. Big Oil then effectively subsidises greener solutions, the economy benefits.
"64% of the US Discretionary budget is military spending" was too big to fit in the subject line and it makes a bigger impact, one proportional to 64% of income taxes being spent on the military. Medicaid/medicare and social security aren't paid through income tax.
It's the discretionary budget. The stuff they can choose to spend your income tax on. Social security, medicare/medicaid are paid other ways. It matches fairly closely with the pdf btw.
Most of it is paid by borrowing rather than taxation, but the increased money supply simply kicks inflation and therefore interest rates into high gear. It'll get worse as the Arabs liquidate their dollar holdings.
They're about something far more important. Social status. The winner of a prize gets to say "look at me, I'm better than everyone else". It's all about fitness to breed and sexual selection. The drive to win these prizes is built in.
You're only a sociopath if you abuse the trust for the action itself, to hurt others
Um, nope. if it's for personal gain; money, status, admiration etc. Applying a "Simple cost-benefit analysis" to interpersonal relationships is a good indication of a personality disorder.
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People are still using Internet Explorer?
The GP is right, I could build a youtube clone in about a month, but what's the point if nobody looks at it.
Is it worth $1.5 billion for those people? Well the dollar is falling, that's inflation for you. You never know, perhaps potential buyers will make a lower counter offer.
Actually the 466 billion you mention is for the Department of Defense, it doesn't include the spending on the War on Terror, the Coast Guard, the National Nuclear Security Administration and a bunch of other spending which is basically national defense. If you total them up, it works out that the US spends about 630 billion on defense.
http://thebudgetgraph.com/view.html
What better way than spending 64% of American's income tax on new weapons?
What they're trying to do is errect what is essentially trade barriers, it'll allow the telcos to charge more for the free trade service that we currently enjoy. It's indicative of a lack of competition in the market. Does the US have the equivalent of the competition commission? Perhaps the telcos should be required to unbundle their exchanges.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_loop_unbundlin
Looks like they are. In which case it's up to ISPs, entrepeneurs, co-operatives to grab the oportunity and start taking business away from the incumbents.
Can detect a very wide range of compounds, can be completely automated.
When everyone has patents, the worth of an individual patent is reduced effectively to zero. I recommend that all IT companies apply for as many patents as you can afford, don't bother with patent lawyers and the like, just make vaguely unique things up and apply because the value of a patent is that you have one which others don't. If you can threaten them the way they are threatening you the value is lost.
Mwhahaha, I lived there for years and nope, it doesn't.
look, public transport is an edge case. It only works for about 10% of journeys, the other 90% of journeys are by other means. If you don't live near a station or if your destination isn't near a station, public transport is close to useless... Conventional public transport anyway, Personal Rapid Transit has the potential to be useful to a decent percentage of the population, 40% or so.
Actually, California has just announced a cap'n trade market for carbon dioxide pollution. It's essentially a market in permission to pollute. So if you buy enough permissions, you can pollute as much as you like.
Simply add fuel producers to the cap and trade system. Instead of the money going into the government coffers, it goes directly to their greener, non fossil fuel using competitors, (including the biomass based fuel producers).
Could this be why Ford is laying off thousands and GM are posting truly huge losses?
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/jun2006
http://www.slate.com/id/2150053/
Inflation is caused by government borrowing and money creation, it's the result of the supply and demand for money, as the supply increases, the value decreases and things start costing more.
WTF? They work fine.
Or better yet, mandate that the fuel producers join the new Californian Cap and Trade system. High prices pretty effectively move people away from the big 2 gallons per mile machines. Big Oil then effectively subsidises greener solutions, the economy benefits.
Someone who wanted to show how income tax was spent?
"64% of the US Discretionary budget is military spending" was too big to fit in the subject line and it makes a bigger impact, one proportional to 64% of income taxes being spent on the military. Medicaid/medicare and social security aren't paid through income tax.
It's the discretionary budget. The stuff they can choose to spend your income tax on. Social security, medicare/medicaid are paid other ways. It matches fairly closely with the pdf btw.
With that proportion of the economy involved in getting blown up and destroyed it's not entirely surprising the economy is in trouble.
http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/
Most of it is paid by borrowing rather than taxation, but the increased money supply simply kicks inflation and therefore interest rates into high gear. It'll get worse as the Arabs liquidate their dollar holdings.
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap/spe nce.html
The actual content of the education itself seems to be rather irrelevant, it's mainly an exercise in branding.
What would we do about our pensions if we all lived longer? Change them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_self-inte rest
They're about something far more important. Social status. The winner of a prize gets to say "look at me, I'm better than everyone else". It's all about fitness to breed and sexual selection. The drive to win these prizes is built in.
How is this a better idea? It doesn't help me.
Radio waves are dragged back down to earth by gravity. The only reason a GSM phone wouldn't work is range to the towers, and it's only 20 miles.
it's called tor.
You are soooo 1950.
Um, nope. if it's for personal gain; money, status, admiration etc. Applying a "Simple cost-benefit analysis" to interpersonal relationships is a good indication of a personality disorder.