Math - Idiot, why bother? You have a higher probability of making money on the stock market by random selection. A monkey can make money on the stock market better than you! Very very few people or companies make money on the stock market. The overwhelmingly vast majority simply stand still while everyone else falls. Buy a NYSE or FTSE all share tracker fund and you too can stand still.
$1 per week invested in developing markets could pay you $120,000 after 25 years. It also happens to improve the lifestyle of those living in the developing markets.
If it barely spreads then the security model is relatively successful. If it spreads like wildfire, creating a 50 million machine monster supercomputer at the hands of international criminal cartels, then the security model could be said to have been less than successful.
This is what the CPI measures. The CPI doesn't measure crap. The CPI and RPI figures are designed to make the proles feel good while those who do understand what's going on devalue the currency to the point of worthlessness.
As to the rest of what you wrote, you seem to be confused over the nature of money... Read this:
...if [the extra exertion required to charge this shirt] is less than or equal to [the energy needed to haul around those batteries the shirt will be replacing], then it's a net win. Y'know... I think you just invented perpetual motion! Who'd have thought the missing factor would be human effort. All those idiots messing round with magnets.
For deaths per dollar you can't beat a good old plague. Try some genetic modification of the influenza virus it killed 50 million in 1918. That'd be a good one, though see if you can't lengthen the incubation period a little to a week or so. Give it more time to spread before symptoms are noticed.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Guess who.
If the population know they're going to be vaporised when the government goes to war, they'll become far more concerned with the politicians preponderance for going to war in the first place.
an intercontinental strike with it was impossible. Not quite true.
Put it in a container, hide it among thousands of others and have the documents say it's being shipped to Washington. Attach a GPS and when it gets within a mile or two of destination it can detonate.
Hell. Just the threat of it would effectively shut down international trade.
You'll find that ideas like life after death or nationhood allow you to persuade people to sacrifice their lives for such mundane things as corporate profit. The idea that the enemy are animals, barely human allows you to persuade people to butcher them.
Then there are ideas like people are born free and equal which created a great liberal society.
Essentially, propaganda is by far the most powerful force. This is what's meant by the pen, though, a writing implement isn't required and has since been superseded by the Internet, which is perhaps why it's the single most significant invention created by humans so far.
Without being able to have their car which they can leave their stuff in, whose design suits their preferences and needs, and hasn't been trashed by someone else, they won't give up their use of a personal car. Sure they will.
Ahem. That dictionary entry does not support the claims made. In all cases it refers to a rise in prices. No...
2. A persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in the purchasing power of money, caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods and services. As I said. "Inflation is the measure of the devaluation of the currency". If the currency is devaluing, by definition, prices are rising because they are defined in units of currency.
Up to 7200 passengers/hour per lane, the equivalent of a 3 lane highway. Uses 50% less energy per passenger km than "light" rail, 66% less than a car. Cost per vehicle is £22k and each can replace up to 40 road vehicles. Real estate required is no more than the width of a footpath per lane.
Currently being implemented by BAA at Heathrow Airport... The busiest international airport in the world.
Therefore, all the IT professionals will get to work at those companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) Nope.
Your average, (less than competent) I.T. department structure their systems such that they need approximately linearly increasing numbers of people to support their systems and users. It's dumb, but there you go.
Those who understand the maths of support, structure their systems appropriately and can scale their support logarithmically. This means there are a shit load of I.T. jobs out there which are simply not required. Redundant... Think hand loom weavers.
City busses aren't exactly light either. 10-15 tonnes per vehicle. I'm not saying trolley buses are a good solution either, being group transport vehicles. They're simply better than trams; they don't require $20-$40 million per mile infrastructure installed, they just need the overhead cables.
At lower speeds (under 25 mph/40km/h) rolling resistance has more of a pronounced effect. And that's where trams spend most of their lives. The effect is the same, the proportion of the overall resistance is higher simply because air resistance is lower. It's still a small percentage compared to going from internal combustion to electric.
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Wonder who their biggest influences are.
$1 per week invested in developing markets could pay you $120,000 after 25 years. It also happens to improve the lifestyle of those living in the developing markets.
If it barely spreads then the security model is relatively successful. If it spreads like wildfire, creating a 50 million machine monster supercomputer at the hands of international criminal cartels, then the security model could be said to have been less than successful.
Is a war against an emotion... Anything which can cause fear is therefore subject to the war. In that way it's the perfect war for politicians.
You're anonymous so it doesn't count.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7072741.stm
As to the rest of what you wrote, you seem to be confused over the nature of money... Read this:
http://www.mises.org/money.asp
...if [the extra exertion required to charge this shirt] is less than or equal to [the energy needed to haul around those batteries the shirt will be replacing], then it's a net win. Y'know... I think you just invented perpetual motion! Who'd have thought the missing factor would be human effort. All those idiots messing round with magnets.Build some solar cells into their helmets.
You want an AI assistant? Thousands of small processors.
Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons...
You seem to be working under the assumption that journalists do any more than regurgitate press releases...
Forget the GPS and add a 6 month timer. Just make sure you don't put a return address on it.
For deaths per dollar you can't beat a good old plague. Try some genetic modification of the influenza virus it killed 50 million in 1918. That'd be a good one, though see if you can't lengthen the incubation period a little to a week or so. Give it more time to spread before symptoms are noticed.
If the population know they're going to be vaporised when the government goes to war, they'll become far more concerned with the politicians preponderance for going to war in the first place.
Put it in a container, hide it among thousands of others and have the documents say it's being shipped to Washington. Attach a GPS and when it gets within a mile or two of destination it can detonate.
Hell. Just the threat of it would effectively shut down international trade.
Ideas.
You'll find that ideas like life after death or nationhood allow you to persuade people to sacrifice their lives for such mundane things as corporate profit. The idea that the enemy are animals, barely human allows you to persuade people to butcher them.
Then there are ideas like people are born free and equal which created a great liberal society.
Essentially, propaganda is by far the most powerful force. This is what's meant by the pen, though, a writing implement isn't required and has since been superseded by the Internet, which is perhaps why it's the single most significant invention created by humans so far.
From their web site, it looks like they tried to have a pet feature added to the format and threw their toys out of the pram when it was rejected.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Up to 7200 passengers/hour per lane, the equivalent of a 3 lane highway. Uses 50% less energy per passenger km than "light" rail, 66% less than a car. Cost per vehicle is £22k and each can replace up to 40 road vehicles. Real estate required is no more than the width of a footpath per lane.
Currently being implemented by BAA at Heathrow Airport... The busiest international airport in the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/20/npods20.xml
HTH.
Your average, (less than competent) I.T. department structure their systems such that they need approximately linearly increasing numbers of people to support their systems and users. It's dumb, but there you go.
Those who understand the maths of support, structure their systems appropriately and can scale their support logarithmically. This means there are a shit load of I.T. jobs out there which are simply not required. Redundant... Think hand loom weavers.