For what it's worth, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) finished his degree (I think at CSUN) years after starting Apple, making his fortune, then quitting Apple. His co-founder Steve Jobs never finished.
And of course, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and never finished -- but how often does Microfsoft hire programmers without degrees these days?
The bottom line is, whether you should get a degree depends on what you want it for. On AVERAGE a degree benefits most people financially, but having degrees is no guarantee of success, and not having one is no guarantee of failure.
Actually, any economist could tell you men buy diamonds
BECAUSE they are worthless, not in spite of that fact.
Why? Buying something worthless to initiate a relationship is a way
of demonstrating committment to the relationship.
Look at it this way: If you really want to be married to this woman,
you value marrying her, and ought in principle to be willing to pay
for the privilege. But, you want her to be committed to
and value the relationship also, and if you pay her to get engaged or
to marry you, you have no way of knowing she didn't just get engaged
so she could "take the money and run."
So what do you do? You buy something really expensive that has no
utility or intrinsic value, you give it to her (to prove you aren't
going to resell it), and she can't "take the money and run" since
diamonds are hard to resell and there is social pressure against
reselling them anyway.
Basically, you are "burning money" to prove you value the marriage you
are about to enter into. You do this to convince her you are serious,
she needs to know you are serious since marrying someone who isn't
serious is potentially costly in all sort of ways (emotionally,
financially, time-wise, etc.).
True, there are only a few countries in which diamonds are used for
engagements, but I bet most of the other societies have similar
committment devices that also amount to "money-burning."
For more on this, see the book, Hidden Order: The Economics of
Everyday Life by David
D. Friedman (yes, son of the famous economist Milton
Friedman). The book is available here
and here
with a table of contents, etc., here.
Not only that, the U.S. government has been buying food to inflate prices since the 1920s! Also, for some crops they just plai make it illegal to grow more than your quota, and you have to destroy any excess. Western European governments do the same sort of thing, too.
We could feed the entire world, easily if it weren't for political problems. And that's on both sides -- a lot of African countries with starving populations ban food imports!
Sure, lots of complicated factors go into determining an individual's weight. But access to enough food is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for being fat.
In the past, not all rick people were fat, but practically no poor people were. I once saw in an early 20th-century book, "skinny" given as an antonym for "rich." In those days, a poor portson who was lazy would be in danger of starvation, not fat.
(BTW, I wish I could eat 30% less than you an weight only 30% more!)
I didn't say *ALL* people are eating well. I said people are eating better than in the past. Average caloric intake in poor countries has skyrocketed in the last century. They are not eating as well as rich countries, but much better than the poor countries of 100 years ago.
Plus, in the U.S. 100 years ago, poor people were all skinny. Nowadays, in the U.S. we actually have poor people who are fat. We even have homeless vagrants who are fat. This is completely unprecedented in world history.
There is still starvation of course -- but a lot less of it than there was 100 years ago when the world population was about 1/6 of what it is now.
Past predictions were all wrong, why believe this?
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These are the same folks who predicted that the world would run out of food by 1980, then predicted we'd run out of oil by 1985.
And of course Thomas Malthus predicted imminent mass starvation in the early 1800s.
In the 1970s, they predicted:
"The world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000 and the reason for this will be its inhabitants' failure to comprehend two facts. These facts are (1) World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping growth of population. (2) 'Family planning' cannot and will not, in the foreseeable future, check this runaway growth."
"Agricultural experts state that a tripling of the food supply of the world will be necessary in the next 30 years or so, if the 6 or 7 billion people who may be alive in the year 2000 are to be adequately fed. Theoretically such an increase might be possible, but it is becoming increasingly clear that it is totally impossible in practice."
Except, here we are in 2002 and those 6 or 7 billion people are eating better than any of their ancestors in all of human history, even in the poorest countries.
My laptop has a built-in UPS that lets it run for 2-3 hours after a power outage -- that's a lot longer (and it's more portable) than the standalone commercial ones, and even longer than this DIY version!
I've probably bought 300 blank CDs, and I love my burner (12/10/40 Teac with BurnProof(TM))... and I've yet to pirate a single music CD, or commercial software CD.
Let's not forget that there are plenty of perfectly legitimate uses for CD-burners. I use it for Linux ISOs, system backups, data backups, archives of various things. I've yet to violate a copyright. I haven't even (yet) gotten around to making backups of out-of-print music CDs I own, even though it would be perfectly legal.
And for data transfer... NEVER underestimate the bandwitdth of a FedEx overnight envelope loaded with CD-Rs!;-)
There are lots of story the old, stodgy media woul d never have let us know about, had Matt Drudge not reported them first. Matt Drudge is the Internet's Tom Paine, and he *IS* changing the way the public gets information. See his ever-changing web site here
I really don't see how the fact that we still have the U.S. Congress changed Mr. Katz's original point. We haven't revolted or amended the Constitution to eliminate Congress, but we keep much better track of what they are doing now than we used to. Several times in the past few years modern communications have brought citizens together to pressure Congress one way or the other, and reversed a previously all-but-certain outcome. Private citizens have a lot more power than they (we) used to. (True, only as long as enough of us agree on something. But that's democracy for you.)
This should help those of us in the USA keep things in perspective when we are complaining about DMCA and Carnivore. Not that we shouldn't fight these things, but we should always remember it could be a lot worse -- and we should be thankful for the freedoms we still have, most of which are (still!) not being threatened.
And while we contribute to the Dmitry Sklyarov legal defense fund, we should remember that even though he's wrongfully charged with violating a wrong law, there are others in the "People's Republic" of China who are being tortured in unspeakable ways for just receiving e-mail from foreigners and reading the news on the web.
Yes, enlistment inquiries SOARED the day after the attack (Wedensday Sept. 12), to something like four times the normal level. This is true across the country, not (just?) in New York.
Here's a link to an AP Story which was linked Wednesday on the Drudge Report, which has had very good links to breaking stories throughout this whole ugly affair.
Not everyone has a cellphone. People without cellphone still need payphones. There are a lot of people like that. Why is this hard to understand?
Probably still a lot less than half the people in the US have cellphones. Also, people who travel internationally, but not often enough to justify getting two or three cellphones for different countries' systems need payphone in other countries.
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For what it's worth, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) finished his degree (I think at CSUN) years after starting Apple, making his fortune, then quitting Apple. His co-founder Steve Jobs never finished.
And of course, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and never finished -- but how often does Microfsoft hire programmers without degrees these days?
The bottom line is, whether you should get a degree depends on what you want it for. On AVERAGE a degree benefits most people financially, but having degrees is no guarantee of success, and not having one is no guarantee of failure.
--Robert (Ph.D., M.B.A., M.A., B.S.)
By "disabled" do you mean, "turned off by software" (that is, potentially hackable) or "not on the processor, anywhere" (that is, there is no PSN)?
Thanks for the update!
What ever happenned tot he Processor Serial Number (PSN) that Intel put in the P3?
Is it in the P4? Is it in any AMD chips?
RCA did try to hire him. He didn't want to work for them. They tried to buy him out, but he didn't want to sell.
RCA did end up licensing Farnesworth's patents, but Farnesworth never got rich from it.
Look at it this way: If you really want to be married to this woman, you value marrying her, and ought in principle to be willing to pay for the privilege. But, you want her to be committed to and value the relationship also, and if you pay her to get engaged or to marry you, you have no way of knowing she didn't just get engaged so she could "take the money and run."
So what do you do? You buy something really expensive that has no utility or intrinsic value, you give it to her (to prove you aren't going to resell it), and she can't "take the money and run" since diamonds are hard to resell and there is social pressure against reselling them anyway.
Basically, you are "burning money" to prove you value the marriage you are about to enter into. You do this to convince her you are serious, she needs to know you are serious since marrying someone who isn't serious is potentially costly in all sort of ways (emotionally, financially, time-wise, etc.).
True, there are only a few countries in which diamonds are used for engagements, but I bet most of the other societies have similar committment devices that also amount to "money-burning."
For more on this, see the book, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David D. Friedman (yes, son of the famous economist Milton Friedman). The book is available here and here with a table of contents, etc., here.
Not only that, the U.S. government has been buying food to inflate prices since the 1920s! Also, for some crops they just plai make it illegal to grow more than your quota, and you have to destroy any excess. Western European governments do the same sort of thing, too.
We could feed the entire world, easily if it weren't for political problems. And that's on both sides -- a lot of African countries with starving populations ban food imports!
Sure, lots of complicated factors go into determining an individual's weight. But access to enough food is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for being fat.
In the past, not all rick people were fat, but practically no poor people were. I once saw in an early 20th-century book, "skinny" given as an antonym for "rich." In those days, a poor portson who was lazy would be in danger of starvation, not fat.
(BTW, I wish I could eat 30% less than you an weight only 30% more!)
Thanks!
Which economist predicted the current population of the earth 200 years ago? You can't be serious.
I didn't say *ALL* people are eating well. I said people are eating better than in the past. Average caloric intake in poor countries has skyrocketed in the last century. They are not eating as well as rich countries, but much better than the poor countries of 100 years ago.
Plus, in the U.S. 100 years ago, poor people were all skinny. Nowadays, in the U.S. we actually have poor people who are fat. We even have homeless vagrants who are fat. This is completely unprecedented in world history.
There is still starvation of course -- but a lot less of it than there was 100 years ago when the world population was about 1/6 of what it is now.
These are the same folks who predicted that the world would run out of food by 1980, then predicted we'd run out of oil by 1985.
And of course Thomas Malthus predicted imminent mass starvation in the early 1800s.
In the 1970s, they predicted:
"The world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000
and the reason for this will be its inhabitants' failure to comprehend
two facts. These facts are (1) World food production cannot keep pace
with the galloping growth of population. (2) 'Family planning' cannot
and will not, in the foreseeable future, check this runaway growth."
"Agricultural experts state that a tripling of the food
supply of the world will be necessary in the next 30
years or so, if the 6 or 7 billion people who may be
alive in the year 2000 are to be adequately fed.
Theoretically such an increase might be possible, but it
is becoming increasingly clear that it is totally
impossible in practice."
Except, here we are in 2002 and those 6 or 7 billion people are eating better than any of their ancestors in all of human history, even in the poorest countries.
For more info, see The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon, and The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg.
Fortunately, that would be a significant reduction in my income....
Not at all! I can read the data sent to the printer, without any additional hardware at all!
;-)
(It hurts a littel without my reading glasses, though.
... runs on this stuff
My laptop has a built-in UPS that lets it run for 2-3 hours after a power outage -- that's a lot longer (and it's more portable) than the standalone commercial ones, and even longer than this DIY version!
Maybe it's not a HURD of Bison. Maybe it's a hurd of cats.
Wherever he is now, I wonder if he still believes in evolution.... ;-)
And as late as 1989, many people said "individual telephone lines will never allow data transfers faster than 9600 bps."
;-)
And before that, it was thoguht that 300 bps was the theoretical limit of paired copper wires.
FYI, DSL runs on those same wires... how fast is DSL up to now?
I've probably bought 300 blank CDs, and I love my burner (12/10/40 Teac with BurnProof(TM)) ... and I've yet to pirate a single music CD, or commercial software CD.
... NEVER underestimate the bandwitdth of a FedEx overnight envelope loaded with CD-Rs! ;-)
Let's not forget that there are plenty of perfectly legitimate uses for CD-burners. I use it for Linux ISOs, system backups, data backups, archives of various things. I've yet to violate a copyright. I haven't even (yet) gotten around to making backups of out-of-print music CDs I own, even though it would be perfectly legal.
And for data transfer
You'd give your right arm for an old 9pin epson with formfeed?
How about just some money? I have an Epson LX-810 in good condition.
Post your e-mail here if interested.
I really don't see how the fact that we still have the U.S. Congress changed Mr. Katz's original point. We haven't revolted or amended the Constitution to eliminate Congress, but we keep much better track of what they are doing now than we used to. Several times in the past few years modern communications have brought citizens together to pressure Congress one way or the other, and reversed a previously all-but-certain outcome. Private citizens have a lot more power than they (we) used to. (True, only as long as enough of us agree on something. But that's democracy for you.)
This should help those of us in the USA keep things in perspective when we are complaining about DMCA and Carnivore. Not that we shouldn't fight these things, but we should always remember it could be a lot worse -- and we should be thankful for the freedoms we still have, most of which are (still!) not being threatened.
And while we contribute to the Dmitry Sklyarov legal defense fund, we should remember that even though he's wrongfully charged with violating a wrong law, there are others in the "People's Republic" of China who are being tortured in unspeakable ways for just receiving e-mail from foreigners and reading the news on the web.
Yes, enlistment inquiries SOARED the day after the attack (Wedensday Sept. 12), to something like four times the normal level. This is true across the country, not (just?) in New York. Here's a link to an AP Story which was linked Wednesday on the Drudge Report, which has had very good links to breaking stories throughout this whole ugly affair.
Probably still a lot less than half the people in the US have cellphones. Also, people who travel internationally, but not often enough to justify getting two or three cellphones for different countries' systems need payphone in other countries.