Just drove the interstate from Connecticut to Houston. It's magnificent.
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 appropriated money to go to states. Many states then bid out contracts to private firms. For example, Boh Brothers Construction built the I-10 elevated roadway that runs across the Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana that opened in 1973. Kiewit Construction Company built the stretch of I-15 runs through the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona.
The only thing I can make out of this article is "We are doing a disservice to kids by assuming that they can't grasp industry-standard languages, complex computer science topics, and applications."
Yet there is a whole generation of professional programmers who started with BASIC, which is not an industry-standard language (not now anyway), is a very limited subset of computer science, and frankly teaches some fairly bad programming practice.
What I got out of BASIC was that programming can be enjoyable and fun. I have seen some people taught K&R C as their first language, and it appeared that had far less enjoyment and fun with memory allocation errors, etc.
BTW "pop computing" isn't really new, remember the educational programming language Logo, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
sweatshops have been a known problem for almost 40 years.
If you define "problem" as multinationals paying 40% higher in average wages than local firms, and the differential is higher in low-income countries of Asia and Latin America.
But now with robots allowing manufacturing to return to developed countries, workers in developing countries do not have to work in "sweatshops" and can return to earning under $1 day toiling in the heat of summer and cold of winter wading through rice paddies just barely living above subsistence.
In-n-Out has higher quality food & higher pay than McDonalds, at prices for food that are not much higher than McDonalds.
However, McDonalds has 100 times as many locations, and is mostly franchised rather than fully-owned like In-n-Out.
My impression is that In-n-Out only has locations in the most profitable spots (highest revenue potential versus rent). It also concentrates on a very small menu, and is often overwhelmed with customers (which is part of the "appeal"). The closest In-n-Out to me is twice the distance as either of the two nearest McDonalds.
Also cups and burger wrappers used by the In-N-Out Burger chain are printed with small references to Bible verses. I don't think McDonalds would allow a franchisee to do that.
I don't exactly live in the sticks, just very far from any AT&T CO. The best DSL I could get form them was 1.5 (really 1.25) down.
The average copper local loop in the US is 4.25 km. This is higher than any other OECD country, and almost four time as long as the average length in Italy for example.
Those people 2+ km out are never going to see data rates over 5 Mbps down, regardless of technology.
It is possible that it is because the US adopted electronic telephone switching before other countries, and/or perhaps there were stronger forces driving Central Office consolidation. You can imagine that with 4 km local loops, one CO can serve the same area as 7 COs with 1.5 km local loops. Thus it is more efficient for telephony to have fewer central offices and longer local loops, but it turns out to be bad years later for DSL.
Corporations only pay tax on their profit after expenses and deductions, etc. whereas real people have to pay tax on all of their income before expenses. Doesn't seem fair. It's just another way to transfer money from poor people to rich people.
But there are plenty of non-rich people who hold a stock portfolio (for retirement) and their returns are lowered by the corporate income tax.
Without an income tax you could directly tax rich people on the capital gains & dividends at a "rich people rate" and directly tax non-rich people on capital gains & dividends at a "non-rich people rate". But today, both the rich and the poor are essentially paying the same rate of corporate income tax.
(Depending on where you feel the corporate income tax falls, it is split between stock owners and consumers, but consumers are also typically non-rich).
"A large portion of tech company cash is held overseas, highlighting ongoing roadblocks corporate tax reform that would help companies repatriate those funds. Moodyâ(TM)s estimates that Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Oracle have $441 billion overseas, representing 87 percent of their cash."
Because the US is one of the few countries in the world that taxes income of corporations earned outside the US. Change the rules to what almost every other country uses (income is taxed in the country where it is generated on sales), and that cash will come back to the US in terms of investment in the US and dividends.
Here is the earlier ungated version, which claims that in Chile girls do better at math than boys, but this reference says the opposite: that boys do better than girls in math in Chile.
Regardless, if you look at the scatter plots in the report, you can see that while there may be a trend, it is a weak one with a great deal of outliers (like Iran, where supposedly girls do better than boys in math, but clearly not a "progressive society").
Remember employees making iphones killing themselves, and the sweat shops in India and Vietnam for clothing and shoes?
The average "foreign sweat shop" worker can make 200% to 700% more than the average income of workers in their country.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are killed in rural agricultural accidents, and there is plenty of suicide in impoverished rural areas of developing countries where there are no good paying "sweat shop" jobs.
One day, he made his peace with Bill Gates, and sometime that day I looked up and the NeXT workstation wasn't on his desk any longer. There was a Windows laptop there.
I bet the next day he was so frustrated that he said "I bet I can sell NeXT to Apple and give them an operating system that doesn't suck this bad.."
I think you're putting far too much emphasis on helping business and way not enough on improving the lives of individuals.
If you help business, you will improve the lives of individuals, because they will have jobs, and enhanced productivity will allow them to earn more.
Politicians may promise to "improve the lives of individuals", but they don't appear to achieve that. France has a 10% unemployment rate, despite lots of labor laws to "improve the lives of people" (in fact high unemployment is because of those laws).
Its been proven time and again that Trickle Down Economics just doesn't work.
Businesses don't care too much about personal income tax rates. They care more about regulation, corporate tax policy, immigration policy, etc.
There is a reason why France has a 10% unemployment rate and 0% GDP growth. It isn't really the personal income tax rate, it is the high level of business and labor regulation.
With ESPN now talking to HULU, we are moving closer to a break of the sports content lock that cable has held
The only "content lock" is money. Cable and broadcast channels get guaranteed per-subscriber payments from MVPDs every month (often several dollars per sub), on top of better per ad rates than streaming built on huge audiences larger than any live streaming (tens of millions for broadcast football), which is the kind of money they need to pay for sky-high sports rights.
As soon as streaming solutions can scale to tens of millions of reliable concurrents in HD 60 fps and the subscribers are willing to pay what is contributed in "retrans fees" from MVPDs today, the sports will move to streaming.
Yahoo! and Twitter have already picked up streaming rights to a football game here and there, and of course MLB has been streaming for a while on their own platform.
How in hell could she be better given that she's clearly the most corrupt and already very much pwned by the special interest groups and big buisness.
Because big business knows better. There is a reason why the US has the lowest unemployment rate and highest economic growth of OECD countries. Of course we need freer trade, more legal immigration, and less regulation (especially on building new housing in high productivity cities), but the business lobby is only so powerful against the economically illiterate democratic populace.
After further research, if there is a lot of ethane emissions but not methane emissions, the source could be in storage or transfer of natural gas liquids (NGLs) which are often processed from raw natural gas, and include ethane, propane, and butane.
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Just drove the interstate from Connecticut to Houston. It's magnificent.
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 appropriated money to go to states. Many states then bid out contracts to private firms. For example, Boh Brothers Construction built the I-10 elevated roadway that runs across the Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana that opened in 1973. Kiewit Construction Company built the stretch of I-15 runs through the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona.
Global warming and world hunger are both problems with direct benefits from cheap space access.
There is no "world hunger," there is only local hunger, which is due to local governments who enforce low levels of economic freedom.
Global warming will react to widespread carbon taxes.
Iridium service is 100% global, even on the north and south poles. It uses a large constellation of low earth orbit satellites.
Inmarsat has no coverage north of 75 degrees N and south of 50 degrees S latitude.
But where is the empirical evidence that these methods actually work?
BTW there is an attempt by the US Department of Education to try to collect evidence-based educational best practices in the What Works Clearinghousa.
Yep lets teach kids to enjoy coding before we suck the joy out of their lives with "inheritance encapsulation and polymorphism"
Object-oriented programming is just a fad, like IPv6...
The only thing I can make out of this article is "We are doing a disservice to kids by assuming that they can't grasp industry-standard languages, complex computer science topics, and applications."
Yet there is a whole generation of professional programmers who started with BASIC, which is not an industry-standard language (not now anyway), is a very limited subset of computer science, and frankly teaches some fairly bad programming practice.
What I got out of BASIC was that programming can be enjoyable and fun. I have seen some people taught K&R C as their first language, and it appeared that had far less enjoyment and fun with memory allocation errors, etc.
BTW "pop computing" isn't really new, remember the educational programming language Logo, designed in 1967 by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon.
sweatshops have been a known problem for almost 40 years.
If you define "problem" as multinationals paying 40% higher in average wages than local firms, and the differential is higher in low-income countries of Asia and Latin America.
But now with robots allowing manufacturing to return to developed countries, workers in developing countries do not have to work in "sweatshops" and can return to earning under $1 day toiling in the heat of summer and cold of winter wading through rice paddies just barely living above subsistence.
In-n-Out has higher quality food & higher pay than McDonalds, at prices for food that are not much higher than McDonalds.
However, McDonalds has 100 times as many locations, and is mostly franchised rather than fully-owned like In-n-Out.
My impression is that In-n-Out only has locations in the most profitable spots (highest revenue potential versus rent). It also concentrates on a very small menu, and is often overwhelmed with customers (which is part of the "appeal"). The closest In-n-Out to me is twice the distance as either of the two nearest McDonalds.
Also cups and burger wrappers used by the In-N-Out Burger chain are printed with small references to Bible verses. I don't think McDonalds would allow a franchisee to do that.
I don't exactly live in the sticks, just very far from any AT&T CO. The best DSL I could get form them was 1.5 (really 1.25) down.
The average copper local loop in the US is 4.25 km. This is higher than any other OECD country, and almost four time as long as the average length in Italy for example.
Those people 2+ km out are never going to see data rates over 5 Mbps down, regardless of technology.
It is possible that it is because the US adopted electronic telephone switching before other countries, and/or perhaps there were stronger forces driving Central Office consolidation. You can imagine that with 4 km local loops, one CO can serve the same area as 7 COs with 1.5 km local loops. Thus it is more efficient for telephony to have fewer central offices and longer local loops, but it turns out to be bad years later for DSL.
Corporations only pay tax on their profit after expenses and deductions, etc. whereas real people have to pay tax on all of their income before expenses. Doesn't seem fair. It's just another way to transfer money from poor people to rich people.
But there are plenty of non-rich people who hold a stock portfolio (for retirement) and their returns are lowered by the corporate income tax.
Without an income tax you could directly tax rich people on the capital gains & dividends at a "rich people rate" and directly tax non-rich people on capital gains & dividends at a "non-rich people rate". But today, both the rich and the poor are essentially paying the same rate of corporate income tax.
(Depending on where you feel the corporate income tax falls, it is split between stock owners and consumers, but consumers are also typically non-rich).
"A large portion of tech company cash is held overseas, highlighting ongoing roadblocks corporate tax reform that would help companies repatriate those funds. Moodyâ(TM)s estimates that Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Oracle have $441 billion overseas, representing 87 percent of their cash."
Because the US is one of the few countries in the world that taxes income of corporations earned outside the US. Change the rules to what almost every other country uses (income is taxed in the country where it is generated on sales), and that cash will come back to the US in terms of investment in the US and dividends.
The nuclear bird kill number is bogus. No one really knows how many birds are killed in uranium mining and milling operations.
What ever happened to good old inert gas asphyxiation?
It is an alternative execution method by law in Oklahoma.
Here is the earlier ungated version, which claims that in Chile girls do better at math than boys, but this reference says the opposite: that boys do better than girls in math in Chile.
Regardless, if you look at the scatter plots in the report, you can see that while there may be a trend, it is a weak one with a great deal of outliers (like Iran, where supposedly girls do better than boys in math, but clearly not a "progressive society").
Remember employees making iphones killing themselves, and the sweat shops in India and Vietnam for clothing and shoes?
The average "foreign sweat shop" worker can make 200% to 700% more than the average income of workers in their country.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are killed in rural agricultural accidents, and there is plenty of suicide in impoverished rural areas of developing countries where there are no good paying "sweat shop" jobs.
One day, he made his peace with Bill Gates, and sometime that day I looked up and the NeXT workstation wasn't on his desk any longer. There was a Windows laptop there.
I bet the next day he was so frustrated that he said "I bet I can sell NeXT to Apple and give them an operating system that doesn't suck this bad.."
I think you're putting far too much emphasis on helping business and way not enough on improving the lives of individuals.
If you help business, you will improve the lives of individuals, because they will have jobs, and enhanced productivity will allow them to earn more.
Politicians may promise to "improve the lives of individuals", but they don't appear to achieve that. France has a 10% unemployment rate, despite lots of labor laws to "improve the lives of people" (in fact high unemployment is because of those laws).
Its been proven time and again that Trickle Down Economics just doesn't work.
Businesses don't care too much about personal income tax rates. They care more about regulation, corporate tax policy, immigration policy, etc.
There is a reason why France has a 10% unemployment rate and 0% GDP growth. It isn't really the personal income tax rate, it is the high level of business and labor regulation.
With ESPN now talking to HULU, we are moving closer to a break of the sports content lock that cable has held
The only "content lock" is money. Cable and broadcast channels get guaranteed per-subscriber payments from MVPDs every month (often several dollars per sub), on top of better per ad rates than streaming built on huge audiences larger than any live streaming (tens of millions for broadcast football), which is the kind of money they need to pay for sky-high sports rights.
As soon as streaming solutions can scale to tens of millions of reliable concurrents in HD 60 fps and the subscribers are willing to pay what is contributed in "retrans fees" from MVPDs today, the sports will move to streaming.
Yahoo! and Twitter have already picked up streaming rights to a football game here and there, and of course MLB has been streaming for a while on their own platform.
Let me know when 20 million concurrent users can reliably stream a football game in HD 60 fps over the Internet.
No doubt this will happen, but right now the reliable numbers I hear are about 1-2 million reliable concurrent streams.
How in hell could she be better given that she's clearly the most corrupt and already very much pwned by the special interest groups and big buisness.
Because big business knows better. There is a reason why the US has the lowest unemployment rate and highest economic growth of OECD countries. Of course we need freer trade, more legal immigration, and less regulation (especially on building new housing in high productivity cities), but the business lobby is only so powerful against the economically illiterate democratic populace.
Better politics, better international relations, better health care, friendlier people, less racism. USA quality of life. What more could you ask for?
LESS SNOW!!!
After further research, if there is a lot of ethane emissions but not methane emissions, the source could be in storage or transfer of natural gas liquids (NGLs) which are often processed from raw natural gas, and include ethane, propane, and butane.
If there is some kind of huge ethane leak from the Bakken, you can be sure there is a huge methane leak as well.
Ethane makes up 10% mole percent of LNG at most, the other 90% is mostly methane.
Methane is a very significant global warming gas, more so than CO2, although its half-life in the atmosphere is much shorter than CO2.
When is Second Life going to work in Oculus Rift????