Its expensive to move a company - not just the real estate costs (ever end a lease early?) and cost of moving equipment and such, but the cost of displacing employees. Even if you can and want to get rid of all the LA employees (can you say 'Union'?) you have termination costs, relo costs for executives and recruiting costs for the new talent.
There is a good chance that these costs would far outweigh the cost of the new taxes, so the math would say keep EXISTING operations in LA. The real impact would come from future companies choosing not to move into LA because of the taxes. That cost is easily concealed from the taxpayers (no one looks at 'could have beens' anyway).
Of course those companies that did choose to move in would probably demand tax relief as part of a relocation package - which would give rise to the common protestation of 'corporate welfare'
This article and process brings to mind another possible method of detecting stealth aircraft. Given stealth aircraft work by scattering radar returns away from broadcasting stations (or in the extreme, away from the ground), it should be possible to put a radar broadcast station behind them and detect their radar 'shadow'. For aircraft, this would probably entail some combination of multiple broadcasting sattelites and multiple receiving stations. It would also entail using sophisticated methods of dealing with noise (or 'erroneous radar return absorption'). It would also work best on aircraft flying high above the ground. It would probably be something the US would be pretty good at deploying.
WEAPONS GRADE OBSIDIAN STORED IN MEMORIAL
After considerable debate, the ruling council of the Consolidated Tribes of cavemen have concluded that the only safe storage place for the obsidian weapons used long ago in wars between the tribes is a solid clay block buried in a hidden distant location.
"These obsidian weapons are the deadliest things currently known to man" according to weapons expert Ugh in a press conference Tuesday. "Unlike bone they never decay and they are sharper than any other rock you can imagine. Consider - a thousand, ten thousand or even a hundred thousand years from now these weapons will still be around and our decendants will have to deal with their threat."
So, lets be real. In 10,000 years our kids could probably open up a box of plutonium, let their personal forcefields come on and transmute it to something safe enough for the dog to play with. The dangerous life of plutonium is not determined by its half life, but by the speed of advancement (and persistance) of our technology.
Read the article - electric motors. The first launch might require electricity generated some other way, but after that you pull power from an operating plane to launch the next one.
I think its more proper to think of these things as a sort of kite anyway. Once in the stream they have to rely on the tether to keep them from blowing away rather than generating energy as the thrust required to counteract the stream would be pretty much the same as the energy generated from the windmill effect. (The difference would be inefficiencies/friction on non-generating parts).
A little while ago there was an article saying scientists have been sucessful at stopping light. Why not put this together with the MIRACL, freeze a bunch of laser pulses from a big laser that wouldn't otherwise fit down a tube, and ship them wherever you need to do the drilling.
In fact, why not just use them elsewhere too? As charges in a pistol - blasters here we come.
Reasonably accurate description (according to Hawking's book), but insufficient to explain the evaporation of these holes.
Quotes from the book (p107-108)
1) "A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. This is much less than the termperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe (2.7 deg) so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb."
2) "Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature."
Therefore super massive black holes have very low evaporation rates and absorb more energy than they emit (at least until this point in time). In an expanding universe that would change far in the future.
Most of the other explanations down the thread are even worse though - 'they grow until they [spontaneously] explode'!?! Please.
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Slashdot needs to do the math.
Its expensive to move a company - not just the real estate costs (ever end a lease early?) and cost of moving equipment and such, but the cost of displacing employees. Even if you can and want to get rid of all the LA employees (can you say 'Union'?) you have termination costs, relo costs for executives and recruiting costs for the new talent.
There is a good chance that these costs would far outweigh the cost of the new taxes, so the math would say keep EXISTING operations in LA. The real impact would come from future companies choosing not to move into LA because of the taxes. That cost is easily concealed from the taxpayers (no one looks at 'could have beens' anyway).
Of course those companies that did choose to move in would probably demand tax relief as part of a relocation package - which would give rise to the common protestation of 'corporate welfare'
What kind of company starts their wireless service in Nebraska?!?! I wouldn't count on much of a long term presence here
This article and process brings to mind another possible method of detecting stealth aircraft. Given stealth aircraft work by scattering radar returns away from broadcasting stations (or in the extreme, away from the ground), it should be possible to put a radar broadcast station behind them and detect their radar 'shadow'. For aircraft, this would probably entail some combination of multiple broadcasting sattelites and multiple receiving stations. It would also entail using sophisticated methods of dealing with noise (or 'erroneous radar return absorption'). It would also work best on aircraft flying high above the ground. It would probably be something the US would be pretty good at deploying.
Anyone heard of this technique being applied?
News from 10,000 years ago....
WEAPONS GRADE OBSIDIAN STORED IN MEMORIAL
After considerable debate, the ruling council of the Consolidated Tribes of cavemen have concluded that the only safe storage place for the obsidian weapons used long ago in wars between the tribes is a solid clay block buried in a hidden distant location.
"These obsidian weapons are the deadliest things currently known to man" according to weapons expert Ugh in a press conference Tuesday. "Unlike bone they never decay and they are sharper than any other rock you can imagine. Consider - a thousand, ten thousand or even a hundred thousand years from now these weapons will still be around and our decendants will have to deal with their threat."
So, lets be real. In 10,000 years our kids could probably open up a box of plutonium, let their personal forcefields come on and transmute it to something safe enough for the dog to play with. The dangerous life of plutonium is not determined by its half life, but by the speed of advancement (and persistance) of our technology.
Read the article - electric motors. The first launch might require electricity generated some other way, but after that you pull power from an operating plane to launch the next one.
I think its more proper to think of these things as a sort of kite anyway. Once in the stream they have to rely on the tether to keep them from blowing away rather than generating energy as the thrust required to counteract the stream would be pretty much the same as the energy generated from the windmill effect. (The difference would be inefficiencies/friction on non-generating parts).
A little while ago there was an article saying scientists have been sucessful at stopping light. Why not put this together with the MIRACL, freeze a bunch of laser pulses from a big laser that wouldn't otherwise fit down a tube, and ship them wherever you need to do the drilling.
In fact, why not just use them elsewhere too? As charges in a pistol - blasters here we come.
Reasonably accurate description (according to Hawking's book), but insufficient to explain the evaporation of these holes.
Quotes from the book (p107-108)
1) "A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. This is much less than the termperature of the microwave radiation that fills the universe (2.7 deg) so such black holes would emit even less than they absorb."
2) "Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature."
Therefore super massive black holes have very low evaporation rates and absorb more energy than they emit (at least until this point in time). In an expanding universe that would change far in the future.
Most of the other explanations down the thread are even worse though - 'they grow until they [spontaneously] explode'!?! Please.