According to a G..GP, the respective weights are 190g and 135g. My calculator says that ratio is 1.407..., which looks a lot like the Kaiser is about 41% heavier, closer to 50% than the 27% you assert. If you have different specs, cite 'em.
$50k is to the government. G^nP is suggesting that for top talent, the pay differential between Berkeley and Bangalore or Beijing is $50k, and that companies might be willing to concentrate more on finding (and paying for) America's Top Talent (that Silicon Valley reality show) for the same effective cost (lower salary, but auctioned H1-B) as an import.
It was drive it out to us, or lose the sale entirely. We were going to walk out and go to a different dealership in the same town where I'd found our second choice.
Regarding my sig, I read somewhere that the median highway drive was about eight (definitely less than ten) miles; as a recovering math teacher, I picked the numbers to make the answer come out. The actual situation that inspired my personal epiphany was a two-lane highway in rural Michigan, where the towns (read: speed traps, but the roads widened to four lanes, allowing easy passing) averaged about nine miles apart. Inevitably, I'd get behind somebody doing the speed limit or just below (say 53 MPH) when I was trying to go about 64 (just slow enough to not get pulled by a cop between towns. Suppose I got stuck with seven miles to go to the next town. At 53 MPH, that's about 475 seconds, while at 64, it's 394. If I could pass right away, I'd save only about 80 seconds. But if there was any traffic coming the other way, I'd have to jockey up and back, waiting for a space big enough, hoping it really was big enough, using extra gas every time I thought there was enough space and had to change my mind, and every mile this took shaved over 11 seconds from my savings.
Once I'd worked this out ("done the math"), and then taking into account how many seconds the extra stress was taking off my life, plus the possibility that I'd eventually misjudge the space, I found it much more relaxing to follow right along. When I occasionally got behind someone really slow (a combine, for example) with oncoming traffic, I'd redo the math in my head (keeping in mind that a combine is unlikely to go much farther than the end of the fellow's farm) and make an informed decision about whether to even try to pass.
Similar logic applies on the interstate. On a four-hundred mile trip, on an interstate with no oncoming traffic (just watch out for jackasses roaring up from behind at 90 MPH!), when you can control the speed differential between lanes, you "do the math" and make an informed decision. You've seen the guy whip out from behind you into the left lane, then back in front of you, slam on his brakes and get off at the exit. He made you brake, and maybe the guy behind you, possibly causing a chain reaction that puts one of those traffic-jam pulses into a crowded highway costing hundreds of people as much as a few minutes (or more), and for what? Two seconds, maybe four? Don't be that guy. Do the math.
We'd finished a stressful negotiation for a large amount of money, and no one, not even the dealership, came up with such an idea. The only thing they came up with was a certified check, and we all kind of fixated on that.
I don't know about where you're from ("cheque"), but in the States, many banks won't produce a cashier's check unless you already have an account with them. I had a similar problem at an out-of-town (nearest good-sized city) car dealership when they wouldn't accept my credit card (high credit limit, 1.9% APR on any charges incurred by MM/DD/YYYY, beats any other car loan I could get), and no banks in town would let me get a cash advance and turn that into a cashier's check, and the dealership also wouldn't accept the cash.
So I told them if they wanted to sell me the car, they'd have to drive it out to me and then drive the rental car back to the rental place (in the same town with the dealership). Two days later, they did.
In the final analysis, though, it still looks like I (either as customer or taxpayer) end up paying to support the content-provider industry. Now, customers and taxpayers pay to support specific industries all the time, through direct subsidies and import levies. An important question to ask is how the cost compares to the industry's losses; and if we only implement this in one country (i.e., the U.S.), I don't see it stopping loss significantly. If our cost is equal to or greater than the reduction in loss, it's a bad deal; I don't know enough economics to know what the optimum point (cost is 50%, 70%, of reduction of loss) would be.
Now if it was marketed in theaters as "shut those idiots' cellphones off", that could add to the customer value, but I haven't experienced much interruption that way, and I've seen no study on how many people do yak on their phones during a movie.
I'd be very reluctant to jam cellphones at sporting (and other large-crowd) events, though. I remember once missing two and a half innings of a Cubs game (yeah, no great loss) just trying to get some beer & dogs. This was before we had cellphones, and my wife was really starting to worry. I'd want her to be able to call, even if just to find out I was still in line.
Bear with me; my job in study groups in grad school was to come up with the counterexamples to break my colleagues' proofs. I'm accustomed to poking holes in arguments.
This putative organization would, presumably, be funded by the fees charged to the theaters, which will of course devolve to the ticket prices.
How do callers (e.g., answering services, trauma centers) know to put their surgeons on the list? Would there be a single whitelist, serving all the competing router companies? Those are just a couple of points; I gotta go.
Sorry, but I'd want to know how you'd implement that; do I hand my approved list to the ticket monkey as I enter the theater? I don't even trust the mouth-breather in the box office to necessarily give me a ticket to the right feature.
I gotta chime in with my USD0.02: After years of providing free PC customer support, my father (and his siblings) bought their father a Mac Mini. He does spreadsheets, email, a little word processing (mostly letters to editors and elected officials!), and genealogy.
For $200-$300 more than a feature-comparable PC, my father has saved himself, in the last year-and-a-half alone, dozens of hours of support (and he bills his time out as a consultant at somewhere north of $150/hr; you do the math). That's dozens more hours he can dedicate to actual paid work.
Now, Buppa's not stupid, but he is 92; tons of malware kept getting past his AV & firewall, and it was all he could do, with help, to keep the machine running (the dreaded Windows format-reinstall-repatch cycle). Now, no more crapola, and for an extra $100 or whatever the iSight was, he can painlessly videochat with his great-grandchildren.
Thank goodness I'm not the go-to support guy for my in-laws (my poor brother-in-law is), but if I ever am, a Mac Mini will be the best investment I ever make.
One of the things I'd like to have seen is a distinction between "failed to distinguish" and "distinguished incorrectly". They've only told us "distinguished correctly" vs. "other", which were not the options given the subjects.
I have one from Belkin that didn't make the review: lighter plug with a gooseneck to the docking transmitter with full frequency selection (except maybe 87.9 for some reason) and four presets. It charges the iPod, plays great through my Honda with it's snapped-off antenna, and I can leave the backlight on (so I can always read the display) since it's always charging. The only problem I have with it is that the cigarette ighter in the '92 Honda is crap (I've had two of these, and both have the same problem): the socket is poorly fixed in the console, and eventually somebody (in both cases, the previous owners) snaps the damned thing off, and then a big bump can cause a temporary power loss. The transmitter immediately tells the iPod to pause and resets itself (usually; sometimes the power stays off until I jiggle it), but I have to manually un-pause the iPod. In any kind of traffic, this can mean no music for a few minutes.
But that's my point. The taxes will be levied to fund the programs. It's only a matter of which authority taxes/funds/administers the programs.
I think in this day of instant communication, it's a straw man to argue that "those inside the Beltway couldn't possibly understand how it is out here in West Armpit." (Whether they do understand is moot.)
Don't you think a single bureaucracy, even one that can take into account the different needs of different regions (or states, or even counties; hey, the census is federal, right?), would be more efficient (i.e., have less overhead cost for the same program expenditure) than fifty-plus duplicative bureaucracies?
Don't you think the duplication of bureaucracy among the states is a waste of taxpayer money? Part of the problem with Medicare and many other federal programs is that the money is handed to the states who have to follow certain criteria, but otherwise administer them according to their will. What we've got is both federal and state gov't bloat.
If the feds are funding it, shouldn't the feds administer it, effectively reducing the size of (total) gov't at the expense of increasing the federal bureaucracy?
Thanks, that's good information. Would it violate the Berne Convention to require copyright registration after X (twenty?) years to prevent reversion to PD?
I think a real solution is to make copyright non-transferable. A corporation is a juristic person that is legally treated, in certain instances, as a person. Corporations don't create art, people do. Having corporations own the copyright is ridiculous. After an artist dies, all copyrighted works should be transfered to the public domain. If an employee creates a something of value, the corporation would then have to make a deal with the employee. If the employee leaves, so does the copyright unless the employee grants the corporation usage rights for a fee. Then you would stop corporations like Disney from taking public domain stories, make a cartoon and copyrighting it. Artists would then have the upper hand in negotiations.
I think you've introduced a problem. Hundreds of people are involved in creating a Disney/Pixar release; who owns the copyright? Can you put it in the employee contract that the employer has the rights to any creation on company time (funny, my employee handbook says almost exactly that)? What if a court decides those clauses are void and one employee leaves Disney while refusing to grant rights?
Or for another example, consider a recording of an orchestral performance of a new work (i.e., the score is still in copyright). The composer (or, more likely nowadays, his publisher, even if self-published) grants rights of performance (for a fee) and recording (for another fee). Now, who holds copyright on this particular expression of that idea? The conductor (arguably, the performance is his or her interpretation of the work)? The conductor and each member of the orchestra, jointly and severally (as you seem to describe)? Or, more likely, the orchestra as a corporation?
I'd like to be able to see how collaborative efforts can be copyrighted by anything but some kind of corporate entity, but I just don't. You might be entirely correct; I just don't see it working.
The biggest problem, as I've heard it described by many academic/creative types (i.e., the ones who would benefit from the release of works into the PD), is the inability to track down copyright holders in order to obtain permission.
What about an office in either USPTO or LOC that registers copyright holders? Then we can cater to the corp whores by simply allowing copyright to be extended past, say, twenty years or the life of the copyright holder by one-year leases of the license from the public for some small fee per work. No fee for the first X years, but you still have to check the box to renew the lease. Thus copyright holders with a large corpus will be making large payments into the public for the express purpose of holding a work out of the PD. Miss a payment, and the work enters the PD. Those with only a few works can pick and choose which to hold onto the rights for. Copyrights can be transferred from the original holder, but those can only be extended an additional X (thirty? fifty?) years before they must revert.
Does anyone see a reason why this wouldn't work? No more orphaned works, no problem finding out if a work has entered the PD, or finding the holder for permission if it hasn't, office supported by the fees (nominal per work) charged. Anything not in the registry is ipso facto in the PD.
CMYK is analog, and "displays" a lot more than four colors. Saturation of each color is determined by ink dot size, which is continuously variable (at the macro scale, anyway; the print head is most likely digitally controlled these days), and the actual color on the paper is determined by the combination of overlaid colors. Take a look at the color bars on the end flap of a package of cereal, where the CMYK appears alongside the actual colors they use on the box, which are simply combinations of the four basic colors.
An "entire hour or so"? Those kids will be bored silly. Science for four-year-olds can be done, but it's got to be really tiny slices, and it's got to be stuff they can do with their own hands. OP's lab (now I might be wrong) doesn't sound like a place where the kids can mess about themselves. "Uh-oh!" is something you hear a lot from a four-year-old.
When my daughter was four, we molded Tampa's interbay peninsula out of Play-Doh(R) on a dinner plate, added water, and blew across it "from the Gulf of Mexico" to model storm surge. The keys are (a) have them get "dirty" and (b) ask them "what do you think will happen? Guess!" so they get used to formulating a hypothesis before testing it. They learn something even when they guess wrong.
Cheaper, younger workers who are willing to work fourteen hours a day because their families are back in India or wherever and so they have no life to go home to.
The word you're searching for is precedent. OldeTimeGeek tried to correct you subtly, but you either (a) missed it or (b) assumed OldeTimeGeek was wrong. Perhaps English is not your first language (just a guess from your name).
Hopefully, others who comment on legal topics will take note as well--you're not the only one to misuse this.
I can get Leonidas (and it appears to be the real thing) here in the states, but it costs a fortune. For that money, I can buy a lot of Lindt Excellence 70% Extra Fine, as long as I want just chocolate and not truffles, quality creams, or pralines.
A couple of years ago, I bought for Valentine's Day what appeared to be a French import: a box of truffles branded "Truffettes". They were quite good, and used real sugar instead of corn syrup. I got them at Target, no less! But then they introduced their "Choxie" house brand, which are two steps above lousy, and I've never seen the "Truffettes" since. Except--wait!--thank you, Google! (I simply hadn't thought to look.) I found them at New Orleans' Blue Frog Chocolates*. I'm going to have to remember that for my next chocolate-giving occasion.
*No, I have no connection to Blue Frog Chocolates, so I guess it's a plug, but not a shameless one.
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According to a G..GP, the respective weights are 190g and 135g. My calculator says that ratio is 1.407..., which looks a lot like the Kaiser is about 41% heavier, closer to 50% than the 27% you assert. If you have different specs, cite 'em.
$50k is to the government. G^nP is suggesting that for top talent, the pay differential between Berkeley and Bangalore or Beijing is $50k, and that companies might be willing to concentrate more on finding (and paying for) America's Top Talent (that Silicon Valley reality show) for the same effective cost (lower salary, but auctioned H1-B) as an import.
Her name's really Lisa (or was that Lilith?).
It was drive it out to us, or lose the sale entirely. We were going to walk out and go to a different dealership in the same town where I'd found our second choice.
Regarding my sig, I read somewhere that the median highway drive was about eight (definitely less than ten) miles; as a recovering math teacher, I picked the numbers to make the answer come out. The actual situation that inspired my personal epiphany was a two-lane highway in rural Michigan, where the towns (read: speed traps, but the roads widened to four lanes, allowing easy passing) averaged about nine miles apart. Inevitably, I'd get behind somebody doing the speed limit or just below (say 53 MPH) when I was trying to go about 64 (just slow enough to not get pulled by a cop between towns. Suppose I got stuck with seven miles to go to the next town. At 53 MPH, that's about 475 seconds, while at 64, it's 394. If I could pass right away, I'd save only about 80 seconds. But if there was any traffic coming the other way, I'd have to jockey up and back, waiting for a space big enough, hoping it really was big enough, using extra gas every time I thought there was enough space and had to change my mind, and every mile this took shaved over 11 seconds from my savings.
Once I'd worked this out ("done the math"), and then taking into account how many seconds the extra stress was taking off my life, plus the possibility that I'd eventually misjudge the space, I found it much more relaxing to follow right along. When I occasionally got behind someone really slow (a combine, for example) with oncoming traffic, I'd redo the math in my head (keeping in mind that a combine is unlikely to go much farther than the end of the fellow's farm) and make an informed decision about whether to even try to pass.
Similar logic applies on the interstate. On a four-hundred mile trip, on an interstate with no oncoming traffic (just watch out for jackasses roaring up from behind at 90 MPH!), when you can control the speed differential between lanes, you "do the math" and make an informed decision. You've seen the guy whip out from behind you into the left lane, then back in front of you, slam on his brakes and get off at the exit. He made you brake, and maybe the guy behind you, possibly causing a chain reaction that puts one of those traffic-jam pulses into a crowded highway costing hundreds of people as much as a few minutes (or more), and for what? Two seconds, maybe four? Don't be that guy. Do the math.
I was younger then, and didn't know they couldn't refuse large purchases, or I certainly would have. It's a good stick to have in the toolbox, though.
We'd finished a stressful negotiation for a large amount of money, and no one, not even the dealership, came up with such an idea. The only thing they came up with was a certified check, and we all kind of fixated on that.
I don't know about where you're from ("cheque"), but in the States, many banks won't produce a cashier's check unless you already have an account with them. I had a similar problem at an out-of-town (nearest good-sized city) car dealership when they wouldn't accept my credit card (high credit limit, 1.9% APR on any charges incurred by MM/DD/YYYY, beats any other car loan I could get), and no banks in town would let me get a cash advance and turn that into a cashier's check, and the dealership also wouldn't accept the cash.
So I told them if they wanted to sell me the car, they'd have to drive it out to me and then drive the rental car back to the rental place (in the same town with the dealership). Two days later, they did.
That might end up being a viable system.
In the final analysis, though, it still looks like I (either as customer or taxpayer) end up paying to support the content-provider industry. Now, customers and taxpayers pay to support specific industries all the time, through direct subsidies and import levies. An important question to ask is how the cost compares to the industry's losses; and if we only implement this in one country (i.e., the U.S.), I don't see it stopping loss significantly. If our cost is equal to or greater than the reduction in loss, it's a bad deal; I don't know enough economics to know what the optimum point (cost is 50%, 70%, of reduction of loss) would be.
Now if it was marketed in theaters as "shut those idiots' cellphones off", that could add to the customer value, but I haven't experienced much interruption that way, and I've seen no study on how many people do yak on their phones during a movie.
I'd be very reluctant to jam cellphones at sporting (and other large-crowd) events, though. I remember once missing two and a half innings of a Cubs game (yeah, no great loss) just trying to get some beer & dogs. This was before we had cellphones, and my wife was really starting to worry. I'd want her to be able to call, even if just to find out I was still in line.
Bear with me; my job in study groups in grad school was to come up with the counterexamples to break my colleagues' proofs. I'm accustomed to poking holes in arguments.
This putative organization would, presumably, be funded by the fees charged to the theaters, which will of course devolve to the ticket prices.
How do callers (e.g., answering services, trauma centers) know to put their surgeons on the list? Would there be a single whitelist, serving all the competing router companies? Those are just a couple of points; I gotta go.
And I have to reply to your comment on my sig by simply quoting your sig :)
Sorry, but I'd want to know how you'd implement that; do I hand my approved list to the ticket monkey as I enter the theater? I don't even trust the mouth-breather in the box office to necessarily give me a ticket to the right feature.
There's a lot of ways that can go wrong.
What Moronator thinks a discussion of support costs is "Offtopic" when comparing Macs to Windows PCs?
I gotta chime in with my USD0.02: After years of providing free PC customer support, my father (and his siblings) bought their father a Mac Mini. He does spreadsheets, email, a little word processing (mostly letters to editors and elected officials!), and genealogy.
For $200-$300 more than a feature-comparable PC, my father has saved himself, in the last year-and-a-half alone, dozens of hours of support (and he bills his time out as a consultant at somewhere north of $150/hr; you do the math). That's dozens more hours he can dedicate to actual paid work.
Now, Buppa's not stupid, but he is 92; tons of malware kept getting past his AV & firewall, and it was all he could do, with help, to keep the machine running (the dreaded Windows format-reinstall-repatch cycle). Now, no more crapola, and for an extra $100 or whatever the iSight was, he can painlessly videochat with his great-grandchildren.
Thank goodness I'm not the go-to support guy for my in-laws (my poor brother-in-law is), but if I ever am, a Mac Mini will be the best investment I ever make.
One of the things I'd like to have seen is a distinction between "failed to distinguish" and "distinguished incorrectly". They've only told us "distinguished correctly" vs. "other", which were not the options given the subjects.
I have one from Belkin that didn't make the review: lighter plug with a gooseneck to the docking transmitter with full frequency selection (except maybe 87.9 for some reason) and four presets. It charges the iPod, plays great through my Honda with it's snapped-off antenna, and I can leave the backlight on (so I can always read the display) since it's always charging. The only problem I have with it is that the cigarette ighter in the '92 Honda is crap (I've had two of these, and both have the same problem): the socket is poorly fixed in the console, and eventually somebody (in both cases, the previous owners) snaps the damned thing off, and then a big bump can cause a temporary power loss. The transmitter immediately tells the iPod to pause and resets itself (usually; sometimes the power stays off until I jiggle it), but I have to manually un-pause the iPod. In any kind of traffic, this can mean no music for a few minutes.
But if you don't have a '92 Honda, it's terrific!
But that's my point. The taxes will be levied to fund the programs. It's only a matter of which authority taxes/funds/administers the programs.
I think in this day of instant communication, it's a straw man to argue that "those inside the Beltway couldn't possibly understand how it is out here in West Armpit." (Whether they do understand is moot.)
Don't you think a single bureaucracy, even one that can take into account the different needs of different regions (or states, or even counties; hey, the census is federal, right?), would be more efficient (i.e., have less overhead cost for the same program expenditure) than fifty-plus duplicative bureaucracies?
Don't you think the duplication of bureaucracy among the states is a waste of taxpayer money? Part of the problem with Medicare and many other federal programs is that the money is handed to the states who have to follow certain criteria, but otherwise administer them according to their will. What we've got is both federal and state gov't bloat.
If the feds are funding it, shouldn't the feds administer it, effectively reducing the size of (total) gov't at the expense of increasing the federal bureaucracy?
Thanks, that's good information. Would it violate the Berne Convention to require copyright registration after X (twenty?) years to prevent reversion to PD?
I think you've introduced a problem. Hundreds of people are involved in creating a Disney/Pixar release; who owns the copyright? Can you put it in the employee contract that the employer has the rights to any creation on company time (funny, my employee handbook says almost exactly that)? What if a court decides those clauses are void and one employee leaves Disney while refusing to grant rights?
Or for another example, consider a recording of an orchestral performance of a new work (i.e., the score is still in copyright). The composer (or, more likely nowadays, his publisher, even if self-published) grants rights of performance (for a fee) and recording (for another fee). Now, who holds copyright on this particular expression of that idea? The conductor (arguably, the performance is his or her interpretation of the work)? The conductor and each member of the orchestra, jointly and severally (as you seem to describe)? Or, more likely, the orchestra as a corporation?
I'd like to be able to see how collaborative efforts can be copyrighted by anything but some kind of corporate entity, but I just don't. You might be entirely correct; I just don't see it working.
The biggest problem, as I've heard it described by many academic/creative types (i.e., the ones who would benefit from the release of works into the PD), is the inability to track down copyright holders in order to obtain permission.
What about an office in either USPTO or LOC that registers copyright holders? Then we can cater to the corp whores by simply allowing copyright to be extended past, say, twenty years or the life of the copyright holder by one-year leases of the license from the public for some small fee per work. No fee for the first X years, but you still have to check the box to renew the lease. Thus copyright holders with a large corpus will be making large payments into the public for the express purpose of holding a work out of the PD. Miss a payment, and the work enters the PD. Those with only a few works can pick and choose which to hold onto the rights for. Copyrights can be transferred from the original holder, but those can only be extended an additional X (thirty? fifty?) years before they must revert.
Does anyone see a reason why this wouldn't work? No more orphaned works, no problem finding out if a work has entered the PD, or finding the holder for permission if it hasn't, office supported by the fees (nominal per work) charged. Anything not in the registry is ipso facto in the PD.
CMYK is analog, and "displays" a lot more than four colors. Saturation of each color is determined by ink dot size, which is continuously variable (at the macro scale, anyway; the print head is most likely digitally controlled these days), and the actual color on the paper is determined by the combination of overlaid colors. Take a look at the color bars on the end flap of a package of cereal, where the CMYK appears alongside the actual colors they use on the box, which are simply combinations of the four basic colors.
An "entire hour or so"? Those kids will be bored silly. Science for four-year-olds can be done, but it's got to be really tiny slices, and it's got to be stuff they can do with their own hands. OP's lab (now I might be wrong) doesn't sound like a place where the kids can mess about themselves. "Uh-oh!" is something you hear a lot from a four-year-old.
When my daughter was four, we molded Tampa's interbay peninsula out of Play-Doh(R) on a dinner plate, added water, and blew across it "from the Gulf of Mexico" to model storm surge. The keys are (a) have them get "dirty" and (b) ask them "what do you think will happen? Guess!" so they get used to formulating a hypothesis before testing it. They learn something even when they guess wrong.
Cheaper, younger workers who are willing to work fourteen hours a day because their families are back in India or wherever and so they have no life to go home to.
... if a precedence is set,The word you're searching for is precedent. OldeTimeGeek tried to correct you subtly, but you either (a) missed it or (b) assumed OldeTimeGeek was wrong. Perhaps English is not your first language (just a guess from your name).
Hopefully, others who comment on legal topics will take note as well--you're not the only one to misuse this.
I can get Leonidas (and it appears to be the real thing) here in the states, but it costs a fortune. For that money, I can buy a lot of Lindt Excellence 70% Extra Fine, as long as I want just chocolate and not truffles, quality creams, or pralines.
A couple of years ago, I bought for Valentine's Day what appeared to be a French import: a box of truffles branded "Truffettes". They were quite good, and used real sugar instead of corn syrup. I got them at Target, no less! But then they introduced their "Choxie" house brand, which are two steps above lousy, and I've never seen the "Truffettes" since. Except--wait!--thank you, Google! (I simply hadn't thought to look.) I found them at New Orleans' Blue Frog Chocolates*. I'm going to have to remember that for my next chocolate-giving occasion.
*No, I have no connection to Blue Frog Chocolates, so I guess it's a plug, but not a shameless one.