As it is we pay farmers to waste land. No need for GM.
The US has ended direct agricultural subsidies. Now subsidies take the form of crop insurance subsidies, and of course indirectly on corn through ethanol blending requirements on gasoline. There also is the imported sugar quota.
GMO crops like GTS 40-3-2 (Roundup-ready soy beans) are used to help farmers not only use less land, but also less water, less fuel and fewer pesticides/herbicides.
Organic fungicides such as copper and sulfur, are used at a rate of 4 and 34 pounds per acre. There also is the organic pesticide rotenone that causes Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms in rats. Organic farmers also directly apply Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin, which is precisely what is found in some GMO corn (although it is more efficiently delivered by the plant itself than through application where much of it washes off into the environment).
I think you meant to say 0 rampage shootings in Australia since 1996 when Martin Bryant shot 35 people to death. But it isn't quite correct.
In 2002 there was a shooting spree by Huan Yun Xiang, a student at Monash University, but he only killed 2 people.
And of course the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis where 3 people were shot to death and 4 others wounded.
Also in 2014, there were 8 dead in Lockhart, NSW from a murder-suicide shooting spree by Geoff Hunt who killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself.
Even without guns, in 2014, 8 children aged 18 months to 15 years were stabbed to death in Cairns by Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday.
I interviewed with 2 companies last year that were very up front about my being mid-40's was a problem.
In the US, that is a specifically actionable event under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. You could have sued all of them. Obviously these companies' HR people are doing a horrible job, competent HR people would tell all hiring managers never to discus someone's age, ESPECIALLY if you think they are over 40 and covered by ADEA.
I was part of a college student group that sponsored a trip to the handgun range for those who wanted to do so for the first time. We had to pick up the students from the student union, then had to go off-campus (due the the Gun-Free School Zone Act) to a private house to have a basic handgun safety session before then going to the range. The outcome would had been no different than if we had the handgun safety session in the student union, but whatever.
This situation will never really be fixed until the US wakes up to the fact that it is the only modern nation in the world that doesn't have a proper public healthcare system with guaranteed access to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Unskilled immigration tends to raise earnings of skilled workers due to the effect of comparative advantage raising the productivity levels of both immigrants and natives.
Jobs do not belong to U.S. citizens. Jobs are created by companies and can exist anywhere. If you are not competitive, you will not get the job, keep the job, etc.
Government can not protect you. In fact the "protection" that government tries to provide simply raises the unemployment rate and lowers incomes by harming the economy. The "protection" will be routed around like packets around an outage on the Internet.
In 2009, Regan Ashby, Arne Ohlendorf and Frank Schaeffel from the University of Tubingen's Institute for Ophthalmic Research in Germany showed that high illumination levels - comparable to those encountered outside - slowed the development of experimentally induced myopia in chicks by about 60% compared with normal indoor lighting conditions
The leading hypothesis is that light stimulates the release of dopamine in the retina, and this neurotransmitter in turn blocks the elongation of the eye during development. The best evidence for the 'light-dopamine' hypothesis comes - again - from chicks. In 2010, Ashby and Schaeffel showed that injecting a dopamine-inhibiting drug called spiperone into chicks' eyes could abolish the protective effect of bright light
According to Glassdoor, there are 104,828 openings for software engineers in the US, and the average base salary is $98,074.
Just because one company is re-orging doesn't mean the entire industry is going under. There will continue to be plenty of new software engineering jobs both inside and outside of the US.
It is true that the number of people working as electrical engineers in the US declined by 29,000 last year, but the number of software developers increased by nearly 12%, or a gain of 132,000 jobs.
The US unemployment rate for electrical engineers was 2% last year, near its historical low, and for software developers at 2.5%.
I wonder what's left of HP that anyone should bother?
HP is currently the largest vendor for my employer, we buy a ton of servers. HP also has "Moonshot", the workload-optimized blade project. And they have a private cloud offering.
Cisco used to be our largest vendor (switches, specialty gear, UCS). For the time being, HP is very competitive on servers and switches.
Meg Whitman's salary in 2015 is $1.5 million, only 16 times the average $90K HP salary.
Her overall compensation package valued at $19.6 million (including a stock award valued at $8.1 million, stock options worth $5.3 million, a $4.3 million incentive award and $295,400 in perks, including $251,000 for personal use of private aircraft). This would be 218 times the average $90K HP salary.
"From my experience, one thing you do need when learning to code is an ability to stifle your rage when computers donâ(TM)t do what you want.
I remember helping out my fellow classmates in the terminal room during my freshman C class [two hints to how old I am in that sentence!]. The biggest impediment I found was that they would get so upset and flustered at the computer that they could not calm down and try to figure out their errors! Once they relaxed, they typically quickly could see the problem.
It is because the studios asked them for a monetary number well outside Netflix's ability to pay and still stay afloat.
Good content costs good money. Netflix doesn't even own its most successful shows (Media Rights Capital owns "House of Cards" and Lionsgate owns "Orange Is the New Black"). Their first cheap Starz streaming deal was a weird technicality. Everyone knew when it ran out that Netflix could not support its streaming of quality content by charging less than what a cable or satellite provider would for a collection of content of similar quality.
I'm very upset, I'm one of the 5% of humanity who has ever flown on an airplane, and I'm just flustered that I have to pay a too much to be able to reach some of the 200 Terabytes of data and 3 billion users on the Internet from six miles above the ground while moving at 550 MPH.
Perhaps we should be happy that global economic growth is allowing hundreds of thousands of new biologists to study the science?
As Julian Simone noted, the ultimate resource is not something like oil, or copper, or water, but instead the ultimate resource is the power of the human mind - and the more human minds that we can bring online to solving problems, the better off the world will be.
Anyway there is plenty of science in the US. In 2013, two Americans and one America-based scientist won the nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Sudhof or Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford) for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic.
I am in the professional content industry, and the last thing we want to do is to use a new codec. But for feature-quality 2160p24, HEVC is a must to keep bit rates from peaking above 100 Mbps (VBR). Also there are HEVC software decoders available, or else no one would be able to watch the Netflix "4K" content in HEVC. I've even seen HEVC software decoders running on an iPhone.
Here is one analysis of HEVC HM versus H.264 x264 quality, and finds: For video compression, the performance of VP8 were competitive with x264, while, interestingly, the new HEVC technology under definition usually showed the best performance.
Finland has a fairly high level of economic freedom, with the notable exceptions of labor regulations and government spending
"Labor regulations are relatively rigid, and the non-salary cost of employing a worker is high" and "government spending is equivalent to 56.7 percent of domestic output".
Dirac low-latency ("Dirac Pro", aka SMPTE VC-2) may come back as a mezzanine compression for production video over IP (Snell showed this at NAB 2014).
But "long GOP" Dirac never provided enough quality per bit per second compared with H.264, and certainly not with HEVC. I don't think anyone at BBC R&D is actively working on it now.
1) Ultra HD Blu-ray is about to roll-out based on HEVC 2) ATSC 3.0 new digital broadcast standard with HEVC is being finalized 3) DVB and others are considering HEVC for digital broadcast 4) UHD/4K with HEVC is being deployed by OTT like Netflix as well as direct broadcast satellite like DirecTV and wireline like BT.
The HEVC Advance patent pool unlimited content royalties that was recently announced are giving content distributors a lot of concern. In the professional content world, it is understood that enabling technology intellectual property needs to be paid, but when you are talking about unlimited percentages of "all direct & indirect revenue" from content, not only is the cost too high, but the accounting is impossible.
Meanwhile from a bit rate versus quality level, VP9 is clearly not performing as well as HEVC.
If Cisco can show that Thor can perform nearly was well as HEVC, there are a lot of content distribution companies that will take it more seriously than they would have just a few months ago because of the HEVC Advance content royalty.
However the enabling factor would be if Cisco (and other Thor implementers) will indemnify users (i.e. content distributors) from any infringement by the use of their encoders/decoders.
Really? I thought getting rid of that "free trade" stuff would magically make Brazil an electronics powerhouse??? I guess those dang economists are right.
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A firearm is quite clearly a tool.
Indeed, Mr. Ice Cube once stated "AK-47 is the tool - Don't make me act the [MFing] fool."
I go to Vegas every year to work at CES, not to vacation.
If you are not taking your clients out to awesome clubs to party, you are not doing your job!
As it is we pay farmers to waste land. No need for GM.
The US has ended direct agricultural subsidies. Now subsidies take the form of crop insurance subsidies, and of course indirectly on corn through ethanol blending requirements on gasoline. There also is the imported sugar quota.
GMO crops like GTS 40-3-2 (Roundup-ready soy beans) are used to help farmers not only use less land, but also less water, less fuel and fewer pesticides/herbicides.
Organic fungicides such as copper and sulfur, are used at a rate of 4 and 34 pounds per acre. There also is the organic pesticide rotenone that causes Parkinson's Disease-like symptoms in rats. Organic farmers also directly apply Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin, which is precisely what is found in some GMO corn (although it is more efficiently delivered by the plant itself than through application where much of it washes off into the environment).
Australia is at 0, since 1994.
I think you meant to say 0 rampage shootings in Australia since 1996 when Martin Bryant shot 35 people to death. But it isn't quite correct.
In 2002 there was a shooting spree by Huan Yun Xiang, a student at Monash University, but he only killed 2 people.
And of course the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis where 3 people were shot to death and 4 others wounded.
Also in 2014, there were 8 dead in Lockhart, NSW from a murder-suicide shooting spree by Geoff Hunt who killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself.
Even without guns, in 2014, 8 children aged 18 months to 15 years were stabbed to death in Cairns by Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday.
I interviewed with 2 companies last year that were very up front about my being mid-40's was a problem.
In the US, that is a specifically actionable event under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. You could have sued all of them. Obviously these companies' HR people are doing a horrible job, competent HR people would tell all hiring managers never to discus someone's age, ESPECIALLY if you think they are over 40 and covered by ADEA.
You said "the middle class is shrinking", which is not supported by the facts.
Your references support the fact that there are a small number of rich people in the US getting richer is true.
However you will also find that CBO numbers show income for the middle quintile rising from $61,200 in 1979 to $76,600 in 2010 (in 2010 dollars).
I was part of a college student group that sponsored a trip to the handgun range for those who wanted to do so for the first time. We had to pick up the students from the student union, then had to go off-campus (due the the Gun-Free School Zone Act) to a private house to have a basic handgun safety session before then going to the range. The outcome would had been no different than if we had the handgun safety session in the student union, but whatever.
This situation will never really be fixed until the US wakes up to the fact that it is the only modern nation in the world that doesn't have a proper public healthcare system with guaranteed access to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Then how could a man stab 5 people to death in Japan?
You can make mental health care as free as you want, but it is not going to mean the mentally ill will come get care.
Unskilled immigration tends to raise earnings of skilled workers due to the effect of comparative advantage raising the productivity levels of both immigrants and natives.
it takes away jobs from U.S. citizens
Jobs do not belong to U.S. citizens. Jobs are created by companies and can exist anywhere. If you are not competitive, you will not get the job, keep the job, etc.
Government can not protect you. In fact the "protection" that government tries to provide simply raises the unemployment rate and lowers incomes by harming the economy. The "protection" will be routed around like packets around an outage on the Internet.
And people wonder why rich are getting richer and the middle class is shrinking.
The facts don't agree with this statement.
From here:
In 2009, Regan Ashby, Arne Ohlendorf and Frank Schaeffel from the University of Tubingen's Institute for Ophthalmic Research in Germany showed that high illumination levels - comparable to those encountered outside - slowed the development of experimentally induced myopia in chicks by about 60% compared with normal indoor lighting conditions
The leading hypothesis is that light stimulates the release of dopamine in the retina, and this neurotransmitter in turn blocks the elongation of the eye during development. The best evidence for the 'light-dopamine' hypothesis comes - again - from chicks. In 2010, Ashby and Schaeffel showed that injecting a dopamine-inhibiting drug called spiperone into chicks' eyes could abolish the protective effect of bright light
According to Glassdoor, there are 104,828 openings for software engineers in the US, and the average base salary is $98,074.
Just because one company is re-orging doesn't mean the entire industry is going under. There will continue to be plenty of new software engineering jobs both inside and outside of the US.
It is true that the number of people working as electrical engineers in the US declined by 29,000 last year, but the number of software developers increased by nearly 12%, or a gain of 132,000 jobs.
The US unemployment rate for electrical engineers was 2% last year, near its historical low, and for software developers at 2.5%.
I wonder what's left of HP that anyone should bother?
HP is currently the largest vendor for my employer, we buy a ton of servers. HP also has "Moonshot", the workload-optimized blade project. And they have a private cloud offering.
Cisco used to be our largest vendor (switches, specialty gear, UCS). For the time being, HP is very competitive on servers and switches.
Meg Whitman's salary in 2015 is $1.5 million, only 16 times the average $90K HP salary.
Her overall compensation package valued at $19.6 million (including a stock award valued at $8.1 million, stock options worth $5.3 million, a $4.3 million incentive award and $295,400 in perks, including $251,000 for personal use of private aircraft). This would be 218 times the average $90K HP salary.
"From my experience, one thing you do need when learning to code is an ability to stifle your rage when computers donâ(TM)t do what you want.
I remember helping out my fellow classmates in the terminal room during my freshman C class [two hints to how old I am in that sentence!]. The biggest impediment I found was that they would get so upset and flustered at the computer that they could not calm down and try to figure out their errors! Once they relaxed, they typically quickly could see the problem.
It is because the studios asked them for a monetary number well outside Netflix's ability to pay and still stay afloat.
Good content costs good money. Netflix doesn't even own its most successful shows (Media Rights Capital owns "House of Cards" and Lionsgate owns "Orange Is the New Black"). Their first cheap Starz streaming deal was a weird technicality. Everyone knew when it ran out that Netflix could not support its streaming of quality content by charging less than what a cable or satellite provider would for a collection of content of similar quality.
I'm very upset, I'm one of the 5% of humanity who has ever flown on an airplane, and I'm just flustered that I have to pay a too much to be able to reach some of the 200 Terabytes of data and 3 billion users on the Internet from six miles above the ground while moving at 550 MPH.
Perhaps we should be happy that global economic growth is allowing hundreds of thousands of new biologists to study the science?
As Julian Simone noted, the ultimate resource is not something like oil, or copper, or water, but instead the ultimate resource is the power of the human mind - and the more human minds that we can bring online to solving problems, the better off the world will be.
Anyway there is plenty of science in the US. In 2013, two Americans and one America-based scientist won the nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Sudhof or Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford) for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic.
I am in the professional content industry, and the last thing we want to do is to use a new codec. But for feature-quality 2160p24, HEVC is a must to keep bit rates from peaking above 100 Mbps (VBR). Also there are HEVC software decoders available, or else no one would be able to watch the Netflix "4K" content in HEVC. I've even seen HEVC software decoders running on an iPhone.
Here is one analysis of HEVC HM versus H.264 x264 quality, and finds: For video compression, the performance of VP8 were competitive with x264, while, interestingly, the new HEVC technology under definition usually showed the best performance.
Finland has a fairly high level of economic freedom, with the notable exceptions of labor regulations and government spending
"Labor regulations are relatively rigid, and the non-salary cost of employing a worker is high" and "government spending is equivalent to 56.7 percent of domestic output".
Dirac low-latency ("Dirac Pro", aka SMPTE VC-2) may come back as a mezzanine compression for production video over IP (Snell showed this at NAB 2014).
But "long GOP" Dirac never provided enough quality per bit per second compared with H.264, and certainly not with HEVC. I don't think anyone at BBC R&D is actively working on it now.
There is a lot of stuff going on with HEVC:
1) Ultra HD Blu-ray is about to roll-out based on HEVC
2) ATSC 3.0 new digital broadcast standard with HEVC is being finalized
3) DVB and others are considering HEVC for digital broadcast
4) UHD/4K with HEVC is being deployed by OTT like Netflix as well as direct broadcast satellite like DirecTV and wireline like BT.
The HEVC Advance patent pool unlimited content royalties that was recently announced are giving content distributors a lot of concern. In the professional content world, it is understood that enabling technology intellectual property needs to be paid, but when you are talking about unlimited percentages of "all direct & indirect revenue" from content, not only is the cost too high, but the accounting is impossible.
Meanwhile from a bit rate versus quality level, VP9 is clearly not performing as well as HEVC.
If Cisco can show that Thor can perform nearly was well as HEVC, there are a lot of content distribution companies that will take it more seriously than they would have just a few months ago because of the HEVC Advance content royalty.
However the enabling factor would be if Cisco (and other Thor implementers) will indemnify users (i.e. content distributors) from any infringement by the use of their encoders/decoders.
Really? I thought getting rid of that "free trade" stuff would magically make Brazil an electronics powerhouse??? I guess those dang economists are right.
Optical SETI also allows for far higher gains with a much smaller antenna.