I've lived in Florida all my life, the retirees who actually live here are incredibly cheap, I simply can't imagine them paying even $100/kg for their food, water and air. (now, the people who buy expensive beachfront real-estate and never use it are another thing... they are our tax base.)
If, by infrastructure, you mean "farm domes," then think about how much area under dome is required to support each person and compare that to the size of your average McMansion.... I'm guessing you'd need dozens of McMansions worth of enclosed habitat to support each person, and before you get into "a glass roof is cheaper to maintain per sq.ft. than a home" think about replacement of lost gasses, meteor strike repairs, dust cleaning, etc.
At 1.4B/2 riders, I might hope that they'll do a couple of trips a year, but there just aren't presently enough billionaires on the planet to support more than that on a continuing basis.
Maybe getting the billionaires to spend their billions (on this, or anything, really) will stimulate the economy enough to empower more of us to be able to take the trip?
Demming followers tried this in the early 90s. They mostly changed their minds by the mid 90s. Notably Florida Power and Light fired everybody and made them reapply for whatever jobs they were qualified for - most of the kids hired directly into management ended up jobless, or in more traditional entry level positions, after that.
Depends on your bosses and shareholders - a lot of the "bubble money" seemed to come from corners that thought that getting 20-somethings to work for them 80-something hours a week while hyper-caffeinated was going to double their wealth... enthusiasm for that has waned a little in the last 12 years, though it will always persist to some degree.
To me, the best answer is a mix: your young enthusiastic kids who are eager to "try something" should be free to do that, in their second 40 hours. The problem is, you can't really get the kids to focus on more proven methods during the first 40, so there's not really a pure bonus effect there, more of a higher risk higher potential reward thing.
As a manager / investor / shareholder, I'd rather have a predictable team with a 90%+ chance of turning a 30%+ annual ROI, instead of a 30% chance of a 300% ROI (and 70% chance of 0), but that's just my style - when you are either young and bold, or old and rich enough to throw away money on chances, the high risk investments are more attractive.
Um.... sounds like the meat eaters have more testosterone in their system, actually a pretty defensible scientific conclusion (regardless of how politically incorrect).
On the flip side, soy drinkers are full of phytoestrogens (and copper...), which isn't exactly what I want for my young boys, either.
for anything. The more awesome the thing, the bigger the potential. Personally, I like Nuclear power, the global communication network, and nutella. While nutella is awesome, it's potential for misuse is proportional to its awesomeness, and you can't really misuse it the way you can an atomic chain reaction, or the internet.
BTW, I'm named inventor on a patent for using carbon fiber to make an electrode "fuzzy" and therefore more solidly connected into a large nerve fiber. Personally, I think the concept is dead obvious to anyone "skilled in the art," but that didn't stop the lawyers from pursuing it and the company from paying bonuses to the inventors.
Is there a "dark orbit" about the moon that stays perpetually in shadow (28 day period), or would that be too close to earth to be stable?
If it could work, that would be a neat place for a deep space station - giant solar radiation shield, all you have to do is bring your own nuke powerplant instead of using solar panels. Still get to see the earth most of the time, too.
The real problem is that everyone fails HR101, nobody can predict with much better than 50% accuracy who's going to be a great team player until they've been on the team for a few months - and getting your ratio up that high is more art than science.
US Americans, unwilling to accept the capricious nature of hiring success, feel they must keep trying for "hard metrics" that any monkey can implement throughout an organization to improve their hiring success ratio. Disallowed from discriminating based on age, sex, race, etc., illegal drug use is one of the few simple metrics available for hiring discrimination.
The larger companies I have known to use it seem to apply it mostly at the bottom as a screening tool (before letting people in), and at the top as a pro-active counselling tool. If you make between $30K and $120K per year, they don't want to know - but I think after gifting some of their execs with $1M+ bonuses, they wanted to make sure nobody picked up any new habits they couldn't handle.
It doesn't matter if profit margins go down, as long as profits go up at the same time. Adding another profit base to your business isn't bad just because your margins go down.
You are speaking rationally... perception is what matters in stock valuations, especially a stock as widely held by "enthusiast investors" as AAPL. Part of the valuation perception in AAPL is the unusually high profit margin, merge them with a nice profitable entity like Archer Daniels Midland and it will muck up that crystal clear picture of what makes AAPL such a desirable stock to hold.
Like a lightbulb, the factories are a sunk cost, they're just churning out the copies now.
SSDs are still recouping R&D costs for now - once they get rolling in equal volume to spinning drives, they should be cheaper.
Like tape 20 years ago, it's the sheer volume of spinning platters that keeps them going - 2TB of platters for $99... hard to touch that with SSD.
But, the point is, he's an artist and his stuff looks cool... it's not his fault he was raised under a rock and rediscovered the wheel a century after its invention.
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I've lived in Florida all my life, the retirees who actually live here are incredibly cheap, I simply can't imagine them paying even $100/kg for their food, water and air. (now, the people who buy expensive beachfront real-estate and never use it are another thing... they are our tax base.)
If, by infrastructure, you mean "farm domes," then think about how much area under dome is required to support each person and compare that to the size of your average McMansion.... I'm guessing you'd need dozens of McMansions worth of enclosed habitat to support each person, and before you get into "a glass roof is cheaper to maintain per sq.ft. than a home" think about replacement of lost gasses, meteor strike repairs, dust cleaning, etc.
At 1.4B/2 riders, I might hope that they'll do a couple of trips a year, but there just aren't presently enough billionaires on the planet to support more than that on a continuing basis.
Maybe getting the billionaires to spend their billions (on this, or anything, really) will stimulate the economy enough to empower more of us to be able to take the trip?
I streamed 2 hours tonight, and some weekend days Netflix streams for 8+ hours (not necessarily being watched, but like TV in the background...)
34 hours a month average seems, reasonable, given an average between heavy and light users.
Or, you could go for a Solar Sterling...
Demming followers tried this in the early 90s. They mostly changed their minds by the mid 90s. Notably Florida Power and Light fired everybody and made them reapply for whatever jobs they were qualified for - most of the kids hired directly into management ended up jobless, or in more traditional entry level positions, after that.
Depends on your bosses and shareholders - a lot of the "bubble money" seemed to come from corners that thought that getting 20-somethings to work for them 80-something hours a week while hyper-caffeinated was going to double their wealth... enthusiasm for that has waned a little in the last 12 years, though it will always persist to some degree.
To me, the best answer is a mix: your young enthusiastic kids who are eager to "try something" should be free to do that, in their second 40 hours. The problem is, you can't really get the kids to focus on more proven methods during the first 40, so there's not really a pure bonus effect there, more of a higher risk higher potential reward thing.
As a manager / investor / shareholder, I'd rather have a predictable team with a 90%+ chance of turning a 30%+ annual ROI, instead of a 30% chance of a 300% ROI (and 70% chance of 0), but that's just my style - when you are either young and bold, or old and rich enough to throw away money on chances, the high risk investments are more attractive.
Um.... sounds like the meat eaters have more testosterone in their system, actually a pretty defensible scientific conclusion (regardless of how politically incorrect).
On the flip side, soy drinkers are full of phytoestrogens (and copper...), which isn't exactly what I want for my young boys, either.
there's some disquieting potential for misuse
for anything. The more awesome the thing, the bigger the potential. Personally, I like Nuclear power, the global communication network, and nutella. While nutella is awesome, it's potential for misuse is proportional to its awesomeness, and you can't really misuse it the way you can an atomic chain reaction, or the internet.
BTW, I'm named inventor on a patent for using carbon fiber to make an electrode "fuzzy" and therefore more solidly connected into a large nerve fiber. Personally, I think the concept is dead obvious to anyone "skilled in the art," but that didn't stop the lawyers from pursuing it and the company from paying bonuses to the inventors.
Is there a "dark orbit" about the moon that stays perpetually in shadow (28 day period), or would that be too close to earth to be stable?
If it could work, that would be a neat place for a deep space station - giant solar radiation shield, all you have to do is bring your own nuke powerplant instead of using solar panels. Still get to see the earth most of the time, too.
Michael Moore is not the mainstream media.
I don't think E.A.Poe or S.King are too close to the stupid line, but neither of their writings could be called "neurotypical" either.
The real problem is that everyone fails HR101, nobody can predict with much better than 50% accuracy who's going to be a great team player until they've been on the team for a few months - and getting your ratio up that high is more art than science.
US Americans, unwilling to accept the capricious nature of hiring success, feel they must keep trying for "hard metrics" that any monkey can implement throughout an organization to improve their hiring success ratio. Disallowed from discriminating based on age, sex, race, etc., illegal drug use is one of the few simple metrics available for hiring discrimination.
The larger companies I have known to use it seem to apply it mostly at the bottom as a screening tool (before letting people in), and at the top as a pro-active counselling tool. If you make between $30K and $120K per year, they don't want to know - but I think after gifting some of their execs with $1M+ bonuses, they wanted to make sure nobody picked up any new habits they couldn't handle.
I am not a spider, or an animal...
On the other hand, I doubt much, if any, research on the topic can be trusted to not be biased for or against.
One and the same.... I bet a lot of them are getting pretty jittery about holding their 3 and 4x gains.
When's the last time a MSFT holder bent your ear about the stock?
Price is driven by the active traders, not the institutional holders.
It doesn't matter if profit margins go down, as long as profits go up at the same time. Adding another profit base to your business isn't bad just because your margins go down.
You are speaking rationally... perception is what matters in stock valuations, especially a stock as widely held by "enthusiast investors" as AAPL. Part of the valuation perception in AAPL is the unusually high profit margin, merge them with a nice profitable entity like Archer Daniels Midland and it will muck up that crystal clear picture of what makes AAPL such a desirable stock to hold.
Go old school and build a concrete dome. These are nothing new, very strong, and energy efficient.
Or, maybe they're happier?
See: RARS
I wouldn't need to be in poor health to take a $4B payday.
Pixar did gain a great deal of creative control of Disney Studios, regardless of how the voting shares break down.
Eliza Dushku as Jedi Leia
Alexis Denisof as Han Solo
Fran Kranz as Luke Skywalker
Felicia Day as the Queen of Naboo
Summer Glau as the next Sith Lord
Episode 7 has Whedon written all over it: Jedi Leia.
More like epic payday... royalties from action figures must have been tapering off.
Like a lightbulb, the factories are a sunk cost, they're just churning out the copies now. SSDs are still recouping R&D costs for now - once they get rolling in equal volume to spinning drives, they should be cheaper. Like tape 20 years ago, it's the sheer volume of spinning platters that keeps them going - 2TB of platters for $99... hard to touch that with SSD.
But, the point is, he's an artist and his stuff looks cool... it's not his fault he was raised under a rock and rediscovered the wheel a century after its invention.