The rest of the world does not "get US drugs at a discount." Rather, American consumers are forced to pay a lot more for each branded medication than anyone else in the world. It is illegal for us to even shop around for a better deal.
Bust those American patents, world. We need to get affordable medications out there for all.
Thorium is also a byproduct of rare earth refining. We can get the thorium we need for free as the electronics business drives more mining of RE elements. Until now it has been considered a useless liability.
Where are the rad-hardened teleoperators we need for nuclear cleanup now? Quotations of generations-long cleanup times strike me as a ploy to make future reactors "too expensive" by inflating decommissioning costs. Ditto for us not opening that already-built safe storage facility in Nevada.
Why can't the customer side Uber app be upgraded to give a running total, based on GPS positions enroute, of what the fare should be during your ride? The driver's calculation of the charge would of course override yours, but you would know if there was a significant discrepancy. You should also be able to have the app estimate the cost of a trip before you actually tap the button to reserve a car. During the actual trip the driver might have to divert around construction, but you would be aware of exactly how far out of the way he was going. Any monkey business would then become part of your driver review.
Intellectually we may claim to love anonymity, but when being tracked by the big evil corporation measurably improves our safety in specific situations, our real feelings are very different. I consider having Apple theoretically know where I am at every moment a small price to pay for convenient navigation and being able to track a stolen iPhone.
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I was talking with a former cabdriver just the other day, and the major reason he left the field was because of the danger. In his urban taxi career he had eleven "runners", or people who dash without paying, but it was the one robbery that unnerved him to the extent he left the field. Although Phoenix is one of the most gun-friendly cities in the nation, management forbade him to carry, a rule typically enforced by insurance companies who care more about their liability exposure than employee safety.
The great advantage of Uber is that because everyone has to sign up as a member of the system before getting rides, the company knows who the customers are, and who is riding with whom at a given time. The increased driver safety, not any abstract political philosophy, is why services like this will replace traditional cabs.
Trains are actually the easiest vehicle to automate, because they run on fixed tracks. The automation system need only worry about merge points, plus what is ahead and what is behind the train. Buses are easier to automate than cars because they run on fixed routes at relatively slow speeds, but the liability exposure of a busload of people in an accident is much greater.
The UK could send the Wahhabi radicals you refer to back if it were to grow a spine, but the other religious radicals, the pitchfork-waving anti-GMO faithful who are all set to derail the program TFA refers to, are locally sourced.
What chemotherapy does is use toxic heavy metals to kill fast-dividing cells, in the hope that the fastest-dividing cells in your body are cancer cells. The problem is that the cells in your digestive system divide almost as fast, and are thus also killed off in the process. Chemo becomes a race to kill your cancer before you die of starvation.
If I were Microsoft I would use the IRS defense: "Oops, I just bricked the hard drive you wanted! And I accidentally recycled it so you peone will never get to even see it. My bad!"
Actually, the ability to print in multiple metals on the same job has innumerable industrial applications, because it removes the major current limitation of 3D print tech. Medical device nutters, electronics assembly nutters and airframe nutters are going to really love this.
Don't laugh. For years I would see golfers (lots of these in AZ) going by with those huge Ping bags, and I always assumed it to be a Chinese company. I was amazed to find that it was not only American but local.
That's why this will never work in the UK. All street parking there violates some rule. Google would have to cram a Cray in each vehicle just to find spaces.
As soon as drug usage is mentioned in a given area of commerce, the federosaurus gets to suspend the Constitution. Silicon Valley is being seen as a place of wealth right now, and invoking the drug war gives authorities the right to steal however much of it they want without due process. And no, developers don't shoot heroin to get projects completed faster.
The big one is Carlsbad, near San Diego, but towns all the way up the coast are installing plants: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
And these are all using reverse-osmosis tech, which costs about twice the market groundwater rate. THey represent hedges against the total disappearance of groundwater.
When an environmental issue comes up, I look up the Greenpeace position on it and automatically know that the opposite must be true. For example, the Amazon Fire 'burns coal' because Greenpeace wouldn't let us have nuclear.
The most pressing environmental issue in my area currently is the impending shortage of water. So I looked up the Greenpeace platform on drought. Presto! Now I know that the ultimate solution to our shortage will de desalination.
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The rest of the world does not "get US drugs at a discount." Rather, American consumers are forced to pay a lot more for each branded medication than anyone else in the world. It is illegal for us to even shop around for a better deal.
Bust those American patents, world. We need to get affordable medications out there for all.
Thorium is also a byproduct of rare earth refining. We can get the thorium we need for free as the electronics business drives more mining of RE elements. Until now it has been considered a useless liability.
Where are the rad-hardened teleoperators we need for nuclear cleanup now? Quotations of generations-long cleanup times strike me as a ploy to make future reactors "too expensive" by inflating decommissioning costs. Ditto for us not opening that already-built safe storage facility in Nevada.
If your credit card information has to be known to Uber, how does one get away with using a fake name?
It happens that I was just there last month. From Logan, you and the kids and the load of luggage just take the Massport Shuttle. It's wicked easy.
Why can't the customer side Uber app be upgraded to give a running total, based on GPS positions enroute, of what the fare should be during your ride? The driver's calculation of the charge would of course override yours, but you would know if there was a significant discrepancy. You should also be able to have the app estimate the cost of a trip before you actually tap the button to reserve a car. During the actual trip the driver might have to divert around construction, but you would be aware of exactly how far out of the way he was going. Any monkey business would then become part of your driver review.
Yes it is, in fact. Americans think a hundred years is a long time, while Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way.
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...Must be having to sell boring machines. I would try to save the situation by going humorous, with an ad series starring Ben Stein.
Intellectually we may claim to love anonymity, but when being tracked by the big evil corporation measurably improves our safety in specific situations, our real feelings are very different. I consider having Apple theoretically know where I am at every moment a small price to pay for convenient navigation and being able to track a stolen iPhone.
I was talking with a former cabdriver just the other day, and the major reason he left the field was because of the danger. In his urban taxi career he had eleven "runners", or people who dash without paying, but it was the one robbery that unnerved him to the extent he left the field. Although Phoenix is one of the most gun-friendly cities in the nation, management forbade him to carry, a rule typically enforced by insurance companies who care more about their liability exposure than employee safety.
The great advantage of Uber is that because everyone has to sign up as a member of the system before getting rides, the company knows who the customers are, and who is riding with whom at a given time. The increased driver safety, not any abstract political philosophy, is why services like this will replace traditional cabs.
Trains are actually the easiest vehicle to automate, because they run on fixed tracks. The automation system need only worry about merge points, plus what is ahead and what is behind the train. Buses are easier to automate than cars because they run on fixed routes at relatively slow speeds, but the liability exposure of a busload of people in an accident is much greater.
A lot more genetic research is being destroyed by liberals who rip up fields of test crops than by fundamentalists inveighing against stem cells.
Why would people who favor independence for Northern Ireland be against new cancer treatments?
The UK could send the Wahhabi radicals you refer to back if it were to grow a spine, but the other religious radicals, the pitchfork-waving anti-GMO faithful who are all set to derail the program TFA refers to, are locally sourced.
What chemotherapy does is use toxic heavy metals to kill fast-dividing cells, in the hope that the fastest-dividing cells in your body are cancer cells. The problem is that the cells in your digestive system divide almost as fast, and are thus also killed off in the process. Chemo becomes a race to kill your cancer before you die of starvation.
If I were Microsoft I would use the IRS defense: "Oops, I just bricked the hard drive you wanted! And I accidentally recycled it so you peone will never get to even see it. My bad!"
Actually, the ability to print in multiple metals on the same job has innumerable industrial applications, because it removes the major current limitation of 3D print tech. Medical device nutters, electronics assembly nutters and airframe nutters are going to really love this.
Don't laugh. For years I would see golfers (lots of these in AZ) going by with those huge Ping bags, and I always assumed it to be a Chinese company. I was amazed to find that it was not only American but local.
That's why this will never work in the UK. All street parking there violates some rule. Google would have to cram a Cray in each vehicle just to find spaces.
Apparently the Chinese don't think so. Compared to the American liberal arts community of experts on missile defense, they must be sadly misinformed.
As soon as drug usage is mentioned in a given area of commerce, the federosaurus gets to suspend the Constitution. Silicon Valley is being seen as a place of wealth right now, and invoking the drug war gives authorities the right to steal however much of it they want without due process.
And no, developers don't shoot heroin to get projects completed faster.
The big one is Carlsbad, near San Diego, but towns all the way up the coast are installing plants:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
And these are all using reverse-osmosis tech, which costs about twice the market groundwater rate. THey represent hedges against the total disappearance of groundwater.
When an environmental issue comes up, I look up the Greenpeace position on it and automatically know that the opposite must be true. For example, the Amazon Fire 'burns coal' because Greenpeace wouldn't let us have nuclear.
The most pressing environmental issue in my area currently is the impending shortage of water. So I looked up the Greenpeace platform on drought. Presto! Now I know that the ultimate solution to our shortage will de desalination.
Because the UN Space Treaty forbids deploying weapons of mass destruction in space.