Yes that's my whole point. To have control you need 50% plus 1 share. So a company with 1 BN shares means you need 500,000,001 shares in order to control it. The person I responded to said 51% for control which is not true. And 500,000,001 (50% plus 1 share)is a lot less than 510,000,000 (51% of shares).
Going public does mean that a company's boss is no longer a person, it is a board of directors.
I don't see your point: This is true of any CORPORATION, both public and private, except those one-person one shareholder corporations that primarily exist for liability limitation/income tax reduction.
Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. Wow, you said that and my Risk instincts told me to start building up troops in Alaska...
ha-ha! While you weren't looking I just took Greenland!
Being able to drop stuff on railcars and run it all the way from russia to the US is a huge bonus.
Except you have to swap railcars, because the track is a different gauge. It screwed the Germans up in WWII - oops. It will certainly slow things down here, especially when the workers in charge of loading/unloading containers go on strike every couple months. And presumably this terminal will be on the Russian side, because Russian workers are "cheaper". Enjoy your strikes...
My thoughts and prayers go out to the civil engineers responsible for maintaining 64 miles of tunnel in an international setting if it is indeed built.
Even worse, I can say it in 4 words: Pacific Ring Of Fire. Can't wait to see how they'll deal with all the earthquakes. This is NOT the English Channel!
It'll be interesting to see if this proposal goes anywhere.
The real interesting thing is that this is a geologically active area, compared to the chunnel which is in a relatively earthquake-free zone. I'd hate to be in the damned thing when the next 8.0 earthquake strikes the Aleutians...
If you want to ship goods to the US or Russia, you are better off just to load up a boat.
Dunno about in your country, but we can fit a LOT of containers on a single train, stacking them 2 at a time per flatcar. And rail is relatively cheap - almost comparable to shipping - especially over long distances. It's also just as fast, if not faster. Of course there's the small detail of Russia using a different gauge of railway track, so I don't know if they'd plan to have some sort of transfer facility to swap the containers from North American rail to Russian. Most cargo doesn't care if it takes 2 hours or 2 weeks though, so long as it gets there in one piece.
I don't quite think that this is designed for passengers at all.
The sections are dropped into the sea and connected together on the sea floor. They are not dug underground.
I am not an engineer (obviously) but - depending on the depth of the sea, wouldn't it make more sense to dig it underground, to shield it from the water pressure? Or is that ocean pressure transmitted through a few dozen meters of rock, too?
it would allow any country to overcome this feat of military infrastructure by sending trainloads of cars, tanks, and troops over just by paying the toll.
This is nothing a few hundred sticks of dynamite (or a few thousand pounds of bombs) wouldn't fix in a hurry. Yours is the same weak argument proposed against the Chunnel time and time again. There's simply no way to get enough firepower over a bridge or through a tunnel unless you control the skies and already control a fair chunk of the other side - with troops that ferried over by other means, or by denying the far side to the enemy with artillery/air power. All the enemy has to do is blow the bridge, or destroy the tunnel, and all the troops that managed to cross are cut off (and dead).
What? I have never heard of any causality problems related to human reflexes. There is a measurable delay and no contradiction of fundemental physics in biology like this.
Perhaps they refer to the amazing ability of the human mind to solve differential equations in a matter of milliseconds to put the hand at the right place to intercept a flying ball. Fortunately for us, the brain just skips the math part and intuitively comes up with the right answer most of the time.
This is hard-wiring, memory and conditioning, however. Your body knows exactly where your hand is in space due to proprioception - pressure receptors in muscles and tendons are constantly giving info relating to body position in space and relative to itself. The trajectory of any object becomes predictable after a while, since gravity is constant. If you can estimate speed and distance, you can pretty much guess that what went up will come down at pretty much the same rate. Then it's a matter of placing the hand approximately in an intercept position, and correcting its position as the object nears. And it's not error-free. Sometimes you will drop or miss the ball - especially if unusual things happen - spin on the ball, gusts of wind, etc. There's no need to think about magical extra dimensions for that.
Even if it isn't discrete you can always encode any arbitrary triplet as a single number, F(x, y, z) -> a. And you can do it in such a way as to always be able to retrieve the three original numbers, i.e. F() is invertible.
Surely this is not the case because if it was: 1) The MPAA would have adopted it to reinforce their DRM and 2) this code would already have been cracked.
The only fact there are such a multitude of "multidimensional" theories, each one assuming hundreds of untested things in the name of arriving at proper results on the bottom line, says, that most likely none of them hold ground in reality.
Reminds me of Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently", a private detective who when faced with an unsurmountable problem, would write a whole bunch of gibberish on a paper, and then claim that he had made the task simpler. Because now all he had to do was translate what he had written into the answer. Yet another example of how our late and beloved Mr. Adams was quite the sarcastic bastard:)
rather than stick around with a mediocre lifestyle in your native land, you abandon your own culture in order to lord your wealth over the native population in the region directly.
Whatever. I guess you're free to stay in the same petri dish and make excuses for your miserable existence. What I fail to understand is your apparent need to insist that everyone else be like you. Neither you nor I chose the country of our birth. Patriotism is a fallacy. My original suggestion was along the lines of: if you don't like the rules in the country you live in, move to a country more to your liking.
But sure, keep waving that maple leaf and insist that you are a true-blooded Canadian, despite the accident of your birth, and put up with whatever your government decides to take away from your life. Me, I prefer peace and quiet. Oh, and anti-capitalist revolutionaries are so 20th century, you know? Perhaps you should travel more.
how do you retain exposure to your culture when everyone spews spanish!
Perhaps because due to a fortunate quirk of nature, you were brought up in several different countries and cultures and are able to break the "village" mindset 99.998% of the world's population lives with. HINT: everyone in the world thinks their country/culture is the best. If you actually live outside your country for a while you get to open your eyes and see the REAL world around you.
But I guess learning a 3rd or 4th language is beyond most people. Stay in Canada and pay your stupid income tax, and enjoy your 30 below winters. Me - I don't pay income tax, I live like a king and hey, if I really miss Canada (NOT) I can always fly there for a few weeks. Just not in February.
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It's called a false positive. That's what happens when you make a test more sensitive but not necessarily more specific.
Today the LA Times reports that researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered what they believe to be the real culprit: a parasitic fungus.
So now all they have to do is get the fungus to stop using cell phones, and everything should be fine.
Yes that's my whole point. To have control you need 50% plus 1 share. So a company with 1 BN shares means you need 500,000,001 shares in order to control it. The person I responded to said 51% for control which is not true. And 500,000,001 (50% plus 1 share)is a lot less than 510,000,000 (51% of shares).
not interested in reading licenses and maybe not even with a clear goal to start a company. I was in this position myself
Funny, I use MySQL in my company (population 1) in some software I wrote to keep track of customers, and I HAVE read the license(s).
Going public does mean that a company's boss is no longer a person, it is a board of directors.
I don't see your point: This is true of any CORPORATION, both public and private, except those one-person one shareholder corporations that primarily exist for liability limitation/income tax reduction.
If you own 51% of the company, you have the same amount of control
It's 50% plus 1 share, not 51%. In a publicly traded company with potentially billions of shares, it makes a HUGE difference.
ATI has consistently made horrendous linux drivers.
Don't feel bad, the Windows drivers are pretty awful too.
Mrs. de Sá won in this first instance the equivalent of 10,800 times our minimum wage!
Now tell me if she actually managed to collect anything.
Assuming there IS a god in the first place.
Well? One good troll deserves another...
Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. Wow, you said that and my Risk instincts told me to start building up troops in Alaska...
ha-ha! While you weren't looking I just took Greenland!
It's not like Putin is a nice soft fuzzy benevolent character or anything....
Putin will be long gone by the time/if this ever gets completed.
Being able to drop stuff on railcars and run it all the way from russia to the US is a huge bonus.
Except you have to swap railcars, because the track is a different gauge. It screwed the Germans up in WWII - oops. It will certainly slow things down here, especially when the workers in charge of loading/unloading containers go on strike every couple months. And presumably this terminal will be on the Russian side, because Russian workers are "cheaper". Enjoy your strikes...
My thoughts and prayers go out to the civil engineers responsible for maintaining 64 miles of tunnel in an international setting if it is indeed built.
Even worse, I can say it in 4 words: Pacific Ring Of Fire. Can't wait to see how they'll deal with all the earthquakes. This is NOT the English Channel!
and permafrost too.
I wouldn't be so sure about that!!! Quick, see it before it's gone!
It'll be interesting to see if this proposal goes anywhere.
The real interesting thing is that this is a geologically active area, compared to the chunnel which is in a relatively earthquake-free zone. I'd hate to be in the damned thing when the next 8.0 earthquake strikes the Aleutians...
If you want to ship goods to the US or Russia, you are better off just to load up a boat.
Dunno about in your country, but we can fit a LOT of containers on a single train, stacking them 2 at a time per flatcar. And rail is relatively cheap - almost comparable to shipping - especially over long distances. It's also just as fast, if not faster. Of course there's the small detail of Russia using a different gauge of railway track, so I don't know if they'd plan to have some sort of transfer facility to swap the containers from North American rail to Russian. Most cargo doesn't care if it takes 2 hours or 2 weeks though, so long as it gets there in one piece.
I don't quite think that this is designed for passengers at all.
The sections are dropped into the sea and connected together on the sea floor. They are not dug underground.
I am not an engineer (obviously) but - depending on the depth of the sea, wouldn't it make more sense to dig it underground, to shield it from the water pressure? Or is that ocean pressure transmitted through a few dozen meters of rock, too?
it would allow any country to overcome this feat of military infrastructure by sending trainloads of cars, tanks, and troops over just by paying the toll.
This is nothing a few hundred sticks of dynamite (or a few thousand pounds of bombs) wouldn't fix in a hurry. Yours is the same weak argument proposed against the Chunnel time and time again. There's simply no way to get enough firepower over a bridge or through a tunnel unless you control the skies and already control a fair chunk of the other side - with troops that ferried over by other means, or by denying the far side to the enemy with artillery/air power. All the enemy has to do is blow the bridge, or destroy the tunnel, and all the troops that managed to cross are cut off (and dead).
What? I have never heard of any causality problems related to human reflexes. There is a measurable delay and no contradiction of fundemental physics in biology like this.
Perhaps they refer to the amazing ability of the human mind to solve differential equations in a matter of milliseconds to put the hand at the right place to intercept a flying ball. Fortunately for us, the brain just skips the math part and intuitively comes up with the right answer most of the time.
This is hard-wiring, memory and conditioning, however. Your body knows exactly where your hand is in space due to proprioception - pressure receptors in muscles and tendons are constantly giving info relating to body position in space and relative to itself. The trajectory of any object becomes predictable after a while, since gravity is constant. If you can estimate speed and distance, you can pretty much guess that what went up will come down at pretty much the same rate. Then it's a matter of placing the hand approximately in an intercept position, and correcting its position as the object nears. And it's not error-free. Sometimes you will drop or miss the ball - especially if unusual things happen - spin on the ball, gusts of wind, etc. There's no need to think about magical extra dimensions for that.
What would it mean for there to be more than one time dimension?
It would certainly mean lots of extra funding for scientists who are pushing that hypothesis.
Even if it isn't discrete you can always encode any arbitrary triplet as a single number, F(x, y, z) -> a. And you can do it in such a way as to always be able to retrieve the three original numbers, i.e. F() is invertible.
Surely this is not the case because if it was: 1) The MPAA would have adopted it to reinforce their DRM and 2) this code would already have been cracked.
Can anybody explain this in terms we can understand, like rubber sheets and spinning balls?
OK. Take a rubber sheet. Scrunch it up into a ball, and spin it. There's your new space-time.
The only fact there are such a multitude of "multidimensional" theories, each one assuming hundreds of untested things in the name of arriving at proper results on the bottom line, says, that most likely none of them hold ground in reality.
:)
Reminds me of Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently", a private detective who when faced with an unsurmountable problem, would write a whole bunch of gibberish on a paper, and then claim that he had made the task simpler. Because now all he had to do was translate what he had written into the answer. Yet another example of how our late and beloved Mr. Adams was quite the sarcastic bastard
rather than stick around with a mediocre lifestyle in your native land, you abandon your own culture in order to lord your wealth over the native population in the region directly.
Whatever. I guess you're free to stay in the same petri dish and make excuses for your miserable existence. What I fail to understand is your apparent need to insist that everyone else be like you. Neither you nor I chose the country of our birth. Patriotism is a fallacy. My original suggestion was along the lines of: if you don't like the rules in the country you live in, move to a country more to your liking.
But sure, keep waving that maple leaf and insist that you are a true-blooded Canadian, despite the accident of your birth, and put up with whatever your government decides to take away from your life. Me, I prefer peace and quiet. Oh, and anti-capitalist revolutionaries are so 20th century, you know? Perhaps you should travel more.
how do you retain exposure to your culture when everyone spews spanish!
Perhaps because due to a fortunate quirk of nature, you were brought up in several different countries and cultures and are able to break the "village" mindset 99.998% of the world's population lives with. HINT: everyone in the world thinks their country/culture is the best. If you actually live outside your country for a while you get to open your eyes and see the REAL world around you.
But I guess learning a 3rd or 4th language is beyond most people. Stay in Canada and pay your stupid income tax, and enjoy your 30 below winters. Me - I don't pay income tax, I live like a king and hey, if I really miss Canada (NOT) I can always fly there for a few weeks. Just not in February.