But is it scalable?
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It is a neat concept and works well on the model. But it just feels like scaling it up to the point where it will lift meaningful weight will prove it to be not efficient.
In order for the company to survive, you have to survive. I look at my responsibilities at a job and decide whether they make sense. If they don't, I go to my boss. If I think they are requiring a level of responsibility that my pay does not compensate me for, I bring that up to the boss as well. If that doesn't sink in, I start sending out the resumes. If nothing else, the new responsibilities have given me experience the next boss is going to pay for.
Does anybody think the mid to high level flunky who agreed to yank this website had a clue as to what he was doing? I don't. He probably got hit up by some hack who had him schedule a meeting or took him out to a nice lunch and talked him into pursuing this. I'm a fairly conservative guy, but I have always cringed at the idea of stuff the government pays for, NOT falling immediately into the public domain where anybody that pays taxes can use it.
Here we go again with percentages? Why don't Liberals ever use dollars? Because then people would understand the specious bull they are spewing. According to the IRS, in 2000, the top 1% were families or individuals that made above 313,469 dollars a year. The top 5% made above 128,336 dollars a year. The top 10% made above 92,144 dollars a year. The top 25% made above 55,225 dollars a year. You can verify this at the IRS's site in this Excel file. 00in01rt.xls
So we know the top 2% is somewhere between 128k and higher. Big deal! Prove their wealth came from defense and not from their plumbing business or their pizza shop.
Because we all know that all of the petty dictators and war lords in Africa and South West Asia are all secretly closet parlimentarians. No Really! They would stop all the killing and repressing if someone only shouted "Point of Order!"
This is ridiculous. Subsidies are about keeping your people in business when the costs do not justify it from a purely capitalistic approach. This is done in all kinds of industries for a variety of reasons. One main reason is usually national defense. If you can't do it yourself, some other guy can use it as a weapon against you. The farming subsidy business is a bit more complicated than that. But it still boils down to the fact that for whatever reason, people are not willing to pay what it actually costs the farmer to grow the particular crop that is being susidized, or some other guy can sell it that cheaply and it is going to put all of your guys out of business.
Re:To the world: I'm sorry and sick.
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Today I am proud to be an American. The party of fear mongering and no ideas has lost its illegitimate power. Treating the electorate like a bunch of buffoons has finally gotten them what they deserved. Even the senior citizens of Florida in fear for their Medicare failed to vote for them. The Democrats still have not figured out the lessons of 1994.
Does anybody else remember WonkaVision? That was where a candy bar was imaged and digitized and sent across the room to be reassembled and eaten by Mike TV?
Of course in the real future, we'll just use food replicators. "Computer, I'll have a cup of Earl Grey with lemon."
He wrote a story called "Coventry" in 1940 where a section of the country was walled off, and all those who could not live responsibly in a free society were sent. They were given one opportunity to take with them everything they thought that they would need,and then sent into Coventry. All societal responsibilities by and for them were over at that point. Shade's of "Escape from New York". Where is Snake Pliskin when you need him?
There is a great SF book titled "Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson that dealt with the oddities of programmer's minds, a computer virus for the minds of programmers, and brain hacking. A great read.
Other uses for 19.2megabits per second
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Putting this together with last weeks "Philip's SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" story and now you have a choice of watching 5 2 hour movies or streaming 1080i HDTV over your cell phone. Who's going to have time to make phone calls?
Yes but the plants that decomposed and created the petroleum absorbed CO2 a million years ago. So what our cars are doing is releasing pre-historic CO2. Maybe that's it. It's the pre-historic CO2 that's the problem.
The flight control system cannot help but pre-suppose the innocence of the aircraft. Don't you remember KAL-007 being shot down? Probably not. You can't just shoot down every aircraft in the wrong place.
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It is a neat concept and works well on the model. But it just feels like scaling it up to the point where it will lift meaningful weight will prove it to be not efficient.
Nope. But can the plant file suit for prior art? Maybe IBM will! Has anybody filed a patent on zebra stripes as a method of visual obfuscation yet?
In order for the company to survive, you have to survive. I look at my responsibilities at a job and decide whether they make sense. If they don't, I go to my boss. If I think they are requiring a level of responsibility that my pay does not compensate me for, I bring that up to the boss as well. If that doesn't sink in, I start sending out the resumes. If nothing else, the new responsibilities have given me experience the next boss is going to pay for.
Does anybody think the mid to high level flunky who agreed to yank this website had a clue as to what he was doing? I don't. He probably got hit up by some hack who had him schedule a meeting or took him out to a nice lunch and talked him into pursuing this. I'm a fairly conservative guy, but I have always cringed at the idea of stuff the government pays for, NOT falling immediately into the public domain where anybody that pays taxes can use it.
Here we go again with percentages? Why don't Liberals ever use dollars? Because then people would understand the specious bull they are spewing. According to the IRS, in 2000, the top 1% were families or individuals that made above 313,469 dollars a year. The top 5% made above 128,336 dollars a year. The top 10% made above 92,144 dollars a year. The top 25% made above 55,225 dollars a year. You can verify this at the IRS's site in this Excel file. 00in01rt.xls
So we know the top 2% is somewhere between 128k and higher. Big deal! Prove their wealth came from defense and not from their plumbing business or their pizza shop.
Because we all know that all of the petty dictators and war lords in Africa and South West Asia are all secretly closet parlimentarians.
No Really! They would stop all the killing and repressing if someone only shouted "Point of Order!"
This is ridiculous. Subsidies are about keeping your people in business when the costs do not justify it from a purely capitalistic approach. This is done in all kinds of industries for a variety of reasons. One main reason is usually national defense. If you can't do it yourself, some other guy can use it as a weapon against you. The farming subsidy business is a bit more complicated than that. But it still boils down to the fact that for whatever reason, people are not willing to pay what it actually costs the farmer to grow the particular crop that is being susidized, or some other guy can sell it that cheaply and it is going to put all of your guys out of business.
Today I am proud to be an American. The party of fear mongering and no ideas has lost its illegitimate power. Treating the electorate like a bunch of buffoons has finally gotten them what they deserved. Even the senior citizens of Florida in fear for their Medicare failed to vote for them. The Democrats still have not figured out the lessons of 1994.
And while we're at it, lets repeal the 17th Amendment and go back to indirect election of Senators. We need to keep that Electoral college busier.
I was ordering for me, not him.
Does anybody else remember WonkaVision? That was where a candy bar was imaged and digitized and sent across the room to be reassembled and eaten by Mike TV?
Of course in the real future, we'll just use food replicators. "Computer, I'll have a cup of Earl Grey with lemon."
Then you wouldn't be hacking somebody elses hardware to make it do something it wasn't supposed to do originally.
Think hot rod or science project.
The Mark V rules.
He wrote a story called "Coventry" in 1940 where a section of the country was walled off, and all those who could not live responsibly in a free society were sent. They were given one opportunity to take with them everything they thought that they would need,and then sent into Coventry. All societal responsibilities by and for them were over at that point. Shade's of "Escape from New York". Where is Snake Pliskin when you need him?
There is a great SF book titled "Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson that dealt with the oddities of programmer's minds, a computer virus for the minds of programmers, and brain hacking. A great read.
Putting this together with last weeks "Philip's SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" story and now you have a choice of watching 5 2 hour movies or streaming 1080i HDTV over your cell phone. Who's going to have time to make phone calls?
That time is already here. A new battery for your cellphone is more expensive than a new phone in a lot of instances.
Aren't there a couple of million of Japanese websites with pics?
Yes but the plants that decomposed and created the petroleum absorbed CO2 a million years ago. So what our cars are doing is releasing pre-historic CO2. Maybe that's it. It's the pre-historic CO2 that's the problem.
The flight control system cannot help but pre-suppose the innocence of the aircraft. Don't you remember KAL-007 being shot down? Probably not. You can't just shoot down every aircraft in the wrong place.
Typical crap comment by a liberal. Lets obfuscate to justify doing nothing about anything.