Never ever are they defrauded. Never. It does not happen. If it does, it's all a communist conspiracy. But it does not. Only Medicare gets defrauded. Not the private sector.
Lessig's argument against the Sony-Disney copiryght extension act was that the constitution granted Congress the authority to grant _limited_ monopolies to copyright holders.
The Supreme Croutes decided that 150 years was indeed very limited even though nobody ever lived that long.
Note that the argument is not that copyright should be abolished but that it be reasonable -- and mathusaleh-length is not reasonable / limited, in fact it's just as insane as not seeing that emails are today parts of one's "papers".
In any case it's probably not even true, the size of the glasses is not mandated, it's the unit used. To wit, in France beer glasses are 25 cl or 50 cl (a "pint"), but some rare bars sometimes serve 12 cl, and I've seen 40 cl pints.
Also wine glasses are usually 12 cl, but in some restaurants in 10 cl, and sometimes it's more. It just has to be spelled out in the menu.
Fine, just remove Montana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Take New England; more densely populated than most of Europe, if not all of Europe, yet its broadband sucks, comparatively.
This is all a weird argument to make. Broadband is much faster and cheaper in quite a few European countries than in the US, and while you can try to weasel your way out of it trying to paint it as unimportant or something, it is a strong demonstration of an important principle: government-enforced competition works.
As soon as the Bush gov't got into office, its FCC removed the line sharing mandate that allowed competition in the broadband market. Inversely, at the same time, the European Commission forced member countries to implement such competition. In France for instance it allowed a small company, Illiad, to innovate. While we had disastrously low penetration for Internet connectivity before 2002, the numbers shot up after that. They also introduced VoIP, free international calls, TV over IP, and so on. Another company started offering free WiFi to all its subscribers through any of its subscribers' "boxes", a feature that is now available on all ADSL providers. Every ADSL modem doubles as a WiFi router, and broadcasts a distinct ESSID for the "free wifi" network. You connect to the hotspot, log in with a user id / password, and you are then connected on a different VLAN than the owner's so you don't see what's happening on their home network, thankfully.
It might be that the situation in the US is not as bad as it's cracked out to be, but there's no doubt that it didn't have the same level of innovation.
Almost all the people who opposed Copernicus and Galileo were not, by any stretch of the imagination, scientists. In fact Galileo was probably the only person you could reasonably call a "scientist" in his time. So yeah, there was a consensus.
Reading your first post I thought you meant their H. Pilori hypothesis had been disproved. I for one never imagined "all ulcers" were caused by a single factor, even after learning of their discovery. It's one of those implicit things, because it's so obvious. Do you mean that theirs is just a minority occurrence? Or are a large proportion of ulcers caused, at least in part, by bacteria?
There was ONE fucking article supporting the autism hypothesis, not many. And it has indeed been retracted. And, just like for climate change, the overwhelming majority of specialists had a consensus: vaccine are safe and the cost-benefit ratio is excellent.
$500 is the retail cost of one (1) EasyStar-based DIY drone:
$60 frame
$100 brushless motor and controller
$80 RC RX/TX, servos
$30 Lipo battery
$250 Arduino-based autopilot with GPS receiver
In bulk, that shit wouldn't cost you more than $300. In fact, if you wanted to make tens of thousands of those, you could probably go down to $100. And you could easily make them bigger for not much more.
Brushless motors and controllers are over 90% efficient. Plus DIY drones are made of a sort of styrofoam, which traps heat and IR, all you could possibly see is the (very, very) slightly hotter air passing through cooling holes. After flying my plane the battery is about as warm as my cell phone after a long call.
The EasyStar, the base for most DIY drone experiments, is a 1.3 m wide slab of styrofoam -- 700g worth of it. It doesn't have to fly at 30000 feet to be hard to shoot down. I doubt you could take that down at a few hundred feet, let alone a few thousand.
In fact a private drone (from a university) has already done that years ago, across the Atlantic. It certainly cost a lot more than $500, but components have gone down in price quite a lot.
My crappy EasyStar ($60 of glorified styrofoam) can fly for almost an hour with a brushless motor on a 11V, 1200mA.h battery that costs around $30. It wouldn't be too hard in the near future to build a drone covered with lightweight solar cells, and enough batteries to stay airborne during the night. The EasyStar can already easily accommodate 200g of payload, for a total weight of one kg or two.
With an Arduino it's already super easy to build a drone with GPS guiding. But even if GPS is jammed it's not much harder to implement inertial positioning, and beyond that cell phone relay trilateration to lock in on a target. Each of those features can be had in a 1g integrated package.
Those are still vulnerable to military jamming, but at a significant cost to the target. There are other ways around this: sun tracking has not been done AFAIK but it shouldn't be too hard to do. We have *slightly* better clocks than mariners of the old time and that's what they used. At night, star tracking is also a possibility. Then some DIY drone people are experimenting with magnetic sensors, which is what migratory birds use.
In conclusion, drones are gonna be a problem, and I suspect states are going to try to ban them, to obviously no effect since all it takes are cell phone components (lithium batteries, microcontrollers, GPS receivers), some styrofoam and a few cheap power electronics components (brushless motors, controllers, and servos). Oh and duct tape. They better ban duct tape quick.
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Never ever are they defrauded. Never. It does not happen. If it does, it's all a communist conspiracy. But it does not. Only Medicare gets defrauded. Not the private sector.
Typical private insurer: 15 to 30%
Of course, if you define "efficiency" by the ratio of things they decline to cover, sure, they're way more efficient.
Lessig's argument against the Sony-Disney copiryght extension act was that the constitution granted Congress the authority to grant _limited_ monopolies to copyright holders.
The Supreme Croutes decided that 150 years was indeed very limited even though nobody ever lived that long.
Note that the argument is not that copyright should be abolished but that it be reasonable -- and mathusaleh-length is not reasonable / limited, in fact it's just as insane as not seeing that emails are today parts of one's "papers".
It wasn't bananas, it was cucumbers. And it was Daily Fail bullshit anyway.
That's standardization.
In any case it's probably not even true, the size of the glasses is not mandated, it's the unit used. To wit, in France beer glasses are 25 cl or 50 cl (a "pint"), but some rare bars sometimes serve 12 cl, and I've seen 40 cl pints.
Also wine glasses are usually 12 cl, but in some restaurants in 10 cl, and sometimes it's more. It just has to be spelled out in the menu.
... you will get none.
But you can be sure nobody will pry your rotten entrails from your cold dead hands!
One, real life example of this alleged "bureaucracy" inconveniencing you.
Go ahead. ....
Stop reading the Daily Fail. kthxbye
Fine, just remove Montana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Take New England; more densely populated than most of Europe, if not all of Europe, yet its broadband sucks, comparatively.
This is all a weird argument to make. Broadband is much faster and cheaper in quite a few European countries than in the US, and while you can try to weasel your way out of it trying to paint it as unimportant or something, it is a strong demonstration of an important principle: government-enforced competition works.
As soon as the Bush gov't got into office, its FCC removed the line sharing mandate that allowed competition in the broadband market. Inversely, at the same time, the European Commission forced member countries to implement such competition. In France for instance it allowed a small company, Illiad, to innovate. While we had disastrously low penetration for Internet connectivity before 2002, the numbers shot up after that. They also introduced VoIP, free international calls, TV over IP, and so on. Another company started offering free WiFi to all its subscribers through any of its subscribers' "boxes", a feature that is now available on all ADSL providers. Every ADSL modem doubles as a WiFi router, and broadcasts a distinct ESSID for the "free wifi" network. You connect to the hotspot, log in with a user id / password, and you are then connected on a different VLAN than the owner's so you don't see what's happening on their home network, thankfully.
It might be that the situation in the US is not as bad as it's cracked out to be, but there's no doubt that it didn't have the same level of innovation.
Almost all the people who opposed Copernicus and Galileo were not, by any stretch of the imagination, scientists. In fact Galileo was probably the only person you could reasonably call a "scientist" in his time. So yeah, there was a consensus.
Reading your first post I thought you meant their H. Pilori hypothesis had been disproved. I for one never imagined "all ulcers" were caused by a single factor, even after learning of their discovery. It's one of those implicit things, because it's so obvious. Do you mean that theirs is just a minority occurrence? Or are a large proportion of ulcers caused, at least in part, by bacteria?
There was ONE fucking article supporting the autism hypothesis, not many. And it has indeed been retracted. And, just like for climate change, the overwhelming majority of specialists had a consensus: vaccine are safe and the cost-benefit ratio is excellent.
Because without them, plant operators would not spend a tenth of what they do on safety currently.
Styrofoam, cyanoacrilate and duct tape are much easier to work with than steel.
$500 is the retail cost of one (1) EasyStar-based DIY drone:
In bulk, that shit wouldn't cost you more than $300. In fact, if you wanted to make tens of thousands of those, you could probably go down to $100. And you could easily make them bigger for not much more.
Brushless motors and controllers are over 90% efficient. Plus DIY drones are made of a sort of styrofoam, which traps heat and IR, all you could possibly see is the (very, very) slightly hotter air passing through cooling holes. After flying my plane the battery is about as warm as my cell phone after a long call.
The EasyStar, the base for most DIY drone experiments, is a 1.3 m wide slab of styrofoam -- 700g worth of it. It doesn't have to fly at 30000 feet to be hard to shoot down. I doubt you could take that down at a few hundred feet, let alone a few thousand.
In fact a private drone (from a university) has already done that years ago, across the Atlantic. It certainly cost a lot more than $500, but components have gone down in price quite a lot.
My crappy EasyStar ($60 of glorified styrofoam) can fly for almost an hour with a brushless motor on a 11V, 1200mA.h battery that costs around $30. It wouldn't be too hard in the near future to build a drone covered with lightweight solar cells, and enough batteries to stay airborne during the night. The EasyStar can already easily accommodate 200g of payload, for a total weight of one kg or two.
With an Arduino it's already super easy to build a drone with GPS guiding. But even if GPS is jammed it's not much harder to implement inertial positioning, and beyond that cell phone relay trilateration to lock in on a target. Each of those features can be had in a 1g integrated package.
Those are still vulnerable to military jamming, but at a significant cost to the target. There are other ways around this: sun tracking has not been done AFAIK but it shouldn't be too hard to do. We have *slightly* better clocks than mariners of the old time and that's what they used. At night, star tracking is also a possibility. Then some DIY drone people are experimenting with magnetic sensors, which is what migratory birds use.
In conclusion, drones are gonna be a problem, and I suspect states are going to try to ban them, to obviously no effect since all it takes are cell phone components (lithium batteries, microcontrollers, GPS receivers), some styrofoam and a few cheap power electronics components (brushless motors, controllers, and servos). Oh and duct tape. They better ban duct tape quick.
The Palin brigade is in force today. I wonder how much $ Exxon Mobil is spending to keep the astroturfing. It's probably quite cheap.
Unlike keeping on using this FINITE resource which will guarantee world stability.
Gee, you denialists are something.
What would you accuse them of?
Precise guess.
Accurate estimate.
In just one word: oxymoron.
DRM on Flash appeared long after it became popular thanks to Youtube.
The reason why Flash video took off is that the video plug-in experience was less than seamless.
you lose your license right away.
I love it.