Unfortunately, the US maintains tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for imports of raw cane sugar, refined sugar, specialty sugar, and sugar-containing products.
If imported sugar products did not have the trade restrictions, they would be cheaper for use in confectionary, foodstuffs, and for biofuel.
In the real world however a GM liquidation would have destroyed the entire supply chain. GM doesn't exist in a vacuum. Ford would have gone bankrupt as well because they share the same suppliers. Even Toyota would have taken a hit.
Or perhaps GM would have been calmly restructured according to law, but apparently we don't care too much about the rule of law.
Well, we went nuclear so we wouldn't cook the entire planet (and thus allowing you to live).
On the other hand, there is a one small cave in Nevada with some nasty stuff. Seems to me like you guys should be able to handle it with your quantum teleportation technology or whatever you come up with. Or just keep an eye on it.
next sentence: "It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."
As you said, some people who cite Smith haven't actually read Smith.
ODS-D77U specs are 780 Mbps write once and 1.15 Gbps read. This is in the same neighborhood as LTO-6. But yeah, the ODA drive price is 3 times higher.
The other speed issue to look at is seek time to recover files, which is going to be much longer on tape (often a minute for LTO-6) than disk. The value of low seek time will depend on use case.
I'm not sure where you get 35-50 Mbps from - you may be confusing ODA with Sony XDCAM, which is an older, single disk system.
The Americans prefer to watch Netflix, to vote for their next American Idol
Avatar and Titanic did over $1 billion dollars in movie business in China.
China Central Television does $2 billion in advertising per year, and has "China's Got Talent" whose premiere drew 400 million viewers, produced by...FremantleMedia...who also produces...American Idol, X-Factor, and America's Got Talent.
the mistake many German people made which allowed Hitler to come to power, was to think treason meant "disloyalty to government", when what it actually means is "betraying your people or country". A government can commit treason.
If you take treason in its more reasonable and only ethical sense, i.e. to betray your people or country, then companies who push for more offshoring, or more H1B1 visas, are committing treason.
So really you want H-1B folks to end up like the Jews under Hitler, is that what you are saying?
Let me paraphrase for anyone who still doesn't have a clue: as far as I'm concerned, their customers were getting back results generated by a random number generator.
Then why do kids on 23andMe show that all the DNA examined has long continuous regions of half-identical matching SNPs to their parents? (I have personally witnessed this)
when you look around the world and start thinking about it, you realize disparity is a problem.
Where is the problem? I see countries like China and India bringing hundreds millions of people out of absolute poverty, yet they also are seeing income disparity widen.
Indeed, income disparity was less in China when Mao starved 20 million people to death in the Great Leap Forward and persecuted millions during the Cultural Revolution.
Because the original money is hoarded by the wealthy.
Every rich person I know has invested their money in productive capital. Heck, I have a few hundred K myself invested in capital stock. Even cash money in the bank is used to loan out to others.
BTW, with PF_RING and a DMA-enabled NIC driver (PF_RING DNA), one should have no problems capturing 10 Gbps on a single CPU modern server. I can capture/playback 4.5 Gbps no problem using this with four 10kRPM HDDs - 8 drives should give you 10 Gbps rate capture/playback.
The real question to me is why corn is used for Ethanol instead of say algae?
The real question is why we have sugar import quotas because Ethanol would be far better made from imported sugar cane sugar than through the energy-inefficient path from corn.
Capitalism creates the economy that produces wealth to reduce poverty and improve living conditions. For example, China's decision to abandon strict communist has brought hundreds of millions of Chinese out of the extreme poverty of living on under $1 per day.
Capitalism also allows companies to effectively meet the individual needs of people. Compare the small number of models of Soviet-built cars with the vast selection of cars available in the capitalist sphere, from the Smart Car to the Hummer, to meet every possible personal need.
Isn't meeting the individual needs of people a "human" effort?
Capitalism is also slowly working its way into the "bottom billion" of world consumers, figuring out ways to bring them all of the consumer goods we have in the west, but sold in ways that meet their needs - for example, Unilever's Comfort One Rinse, designed to reduce the amount of water used when washing clothes in areas where water is scarce.
Or take D.Light, a for-profit social enterprise that has sold 12 million solar-power lamps to people in 40 countries who don't have regular access to electric power.
Keep in mind that broadcast TV drops a 5.1 channel audio program from a PCM representation requiring more than 5 Mbps (6 channels x 48 kHz x 18 bits = 5.184 Mbps) into a 384 kbps serial bit stream by the AC-3 encoder - or possibly lower (256 kbps sometimes).
CD's have uncompressed PCM audio.
AC-3 could be sampled at 44.1 or 32 kHz and still be ATSC-legal, but I don't think anyone bothers to do that.
Let's be clear, television in the US is either 1080i/30fps or 720p/60fps. There is no 1080p television (outside of ATSC territory, replace with 1080i/25 fps and 720p/50 fps).
There are 1080p/24fps movies available on Blu-ray.
But there is zero 1080p/60fps television anywhere.
You can purchase a 4K/24fps media player with the Sony 4K set, with a very small amount of 4K/24fps content.
I have a low ID because I was in the Internet industry in the early days. I saw the value of angel investors, venture capital, public markets, and private capital organizations make this incredible network that we are communicating over right now.
I was part of building the first e-commerce web sites. I was part of the first Internet video transmissions that now represent over 50% of Internet traffic, and let grandparents see their kids on the other side of the country or the world.
I also have been involved in worldwide industry, and know how tough the regulatory environment is in developing countries - how it makes starting a (legal) company difficult, makes you scared to hire people you may not be able to ever fire, makes it difficult to legally import equipment, etc. There is a reason why these countries remain poor. Go there and try to do business, and you will figure it out.
Some of the countries that have the highest success rates with micro-credits have pretty much no regulation whatsoever in banking.
What countries are you speaking of? India, where public sector banks have 70% of the sector's assets and new bank licenses are a "once in a decade affair"? Or where mobile money schemes like M-PESA are forced by regulation to be attached to a bank?
Or Bangladesh, where the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom says "Reform of the financial sector has been ongoing, but government ownership and interference remain considerable, undermining much-needed increases in efficiency"?
"The Indonesian banking system is centered around 30 inefficient public sector banks that control over 40 per cent of bank assets. The central government owns four banks, and 26 regional development banks are owned by one province or jointly by a number of provinces. The dominance of public banks stems from policies issued in 1967 by the New Order government, which required all public sector entities (including about 150 state-owned enterprises) to deposit their financial assets at state-owned banks. Meanwhile, the financial assets of local governments (including their enterprises) had to be deposited only at the local province-held bank. In 2012, the four state-owned banks still controlled 36.3 per cent of all assets held by banks in Indonesia."
Let me know when Indonesia privatizes all banks, ends regulations requiring SOEs to deposit their money in certain banks, and fully opens up the banking sector to international competition...
It is trivial even for the poorest people in the US to get a credit card or bank account. In other countries with corrupt government-controlled banking sectors, they need micro-credit.
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Unfortunately, the US maintains tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for imports of raw cane sugar, refined sugar, specialty sugar, and sugar-containing products.
If imported sugar products did not have the trade restrictions, they would be cheaper for use in confectionary, foodstuffs, and for biofuel.
But if you filled a balloon full of CO2, then would it start to freeze at this cold location?
In the real world however a GM liquidation would have destroyed the entire supply chain. GM doesn't exist in a vacuum. Ford would have gone bankrupt as well because they share the same suppliers. Even Toyota would have taken a hit.
Or perhaps GM would have been calmly restructured according to law, but apparently we don't care too much about the rule of law.
Dear kids from the future,
Well, we went nuclear so we wouldn't cook the entire planet (and thus allowing you to live).
On the other hand, there is a one small cave in Nevada with some nasty stuff. Seems to me like you guys should be able to handle it with your quantum teleportation technology or whatever you come up with. Or just keep an eye on it.
next sentence: "It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."
As you said, some people who cite Smith haven't actually read Smith.
ODS-D77U specs are 780 Mbps write once and 1.15 Gbps read. This is in the same neighborhood as LTO-6. But yeah, the ODA drive price is 3 times higher.
The other speed issue to look at is seek time to recover files, which is going to be much longer on tape (often a minute for LTO-6) than disk. The value of low seek time will depend on use case.
I'm not sure where you get 35-50 Mbps from - you may be confusing ODA with Sony XDCAM, which is an older, single disk system.
Sony now has a new Optical Disk Archive (ODA) at up to 1.5 TB per disk and they claim they are good for 50 years.
I still lean LTO myself due to it being a more widely-used format with far more vendors participating.
The Americans prefer to watch Netflix, to vote for their next American Idol
Avatar and Titanic did over $1 billion dollars in movie business in China.
China Central Television does $2 billion in advertising per year, and has "China's Got Talent" whose premiere drew 400 million viewers, produced by...FremantleMedia...who also produces...American Idol, X-Factor, and America's Got Talent.
People are the same all over the world.
the mistake many German people made which allowed Hitler to come to power, was to think treason meant "disloyalty to government", when what it actually means is "betraying your people or country". A government can commit treason.
If you take treason in its more reasonable and only ethical sense, i.e. to betray your people or country, then companies who push for more offshoring, or more H1B1 visas, are committing treason.
So really you want H-1B folks to end up like the Jews under Hitler, is that what you are saying?
Let me paraphrase for anyone who still doesn't have a clue: as far as I'm concerned, their customers were getting back results generated by a random number generator.
Then why do kids on 23andMe show that all the DNA examined has long continuous regions of half-identical matching SNPs to their parents? (I have personally witnessed this)
Now cue all the Slashbertarians ranting about how restricting unproven medical testing is an assault on freedom...
I own my DNA!
when you look around the world and start thinking about it, you realize disparity is a problem.
Where is the problem? I see countries like China and India bringing hundreds millions of people out of absolute poverty, yet they also are seeing income disparity widen.
Indeed, income disparity was less in China when Mao starved 20 million people to death in the Great Leap Forward and persecuted millions during the Cultural Revolution.
Because the original money is hoarded by the wealthy.
Every rich person I know has invested their money in productive capital. Heck, I have a few hundred K myself invested in capital stock. Even cash money in the bank is used to loan out to others.
If the CEO wants more money, then they would have to consider how much the staff is being paid and how to boost things overall.
Or fire the lowest paid staff, and outsource those jobs to a separate staffing company.
Corporate taxes come as a subset of profits, and not revenues. You just made an assertion that is literally impossible.
While corporate income taxes are based on profits, oil producers also pay governments royalties or lease payments that are not based on profits.
Here is a URL to a presentation on the issue of GPU-Based Network Monitoring.
BTW, with PF_RING and a DMA-enabled NIC driver (PF_RING DNA), one should have no problems capturing 10 Gbps on a single CPU modern server. I can capture/playback 4.5 Gbps no problem using this with four 10kRPM HDDs - 8 drives should give you 10 Gbps rate capture/playback.
If the math has been calculated with IEEE 754-2008, it is IEEE 754-2008 (aka ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011). Should not matter what you are running it on...
The real question to me is why corn is used for Ethanol instead of say algae?
The real question is why we have sugar import quotas because Ethanol would be far better made from imported sugar cane sugar than through the energy-inefficient path from corn.
And the answer is, again, Big Corn.
Is more focus on humanity and less on capitalism.
Capitalism creates the economy that produces wealth to reduce poverty and improve living conditions. For example, China's decision to abandon strict communist has brought hundreds of millions of Chinese out of the extreme poverty of living on under $1 per day.
Capitalism also allows companies to effectively meet the individual needs of people. Compare the small number of models of Soviet-built cars with the vast selection of cars available in the capitalist sphere, from the Smart Car to the Hummer, to meet every possible personal need.
Isn't meeting the individual needs of people a "human" effort?
Capitalism is also slowly working its way into the "bottom billion" of world consumers, figuring out ways to bring them all of the consumer goods we have in the west, but sold in ways that meet their needs - for example, Unilever's Comfort One Rinse, designed to reduce the amount of water used when washing clothes in areas where water is scarce.
Or take D.Light, a for-profit social enterprise that has sold 12 million solar-power lamps to people in 40 countries who don't have regular access to electric power.
The problem is that I don't think anyone has ever built a quantum gate with phosphorus doped silicon...
Broadcast TV ATSC standard is 48KHz already
Keep in mind that broadcast TV drops a 5.1 channel audio program from a PCM representation requiring more than 5 Mbps (6 channels x 48 kHz x 18 bits = 5.184 Mbps) into a 384 kbps serial bit stream by the AC-3 encoder - or possibly lower (256 kbps sometimes).
CD's have uncompressed PCM audio.
AC-3 could be sampled at 44.1 or 32 kHz and still be ATSC-legal, but I don't think anyone bothers to do that.
televesion is at best 1080p
Let's be clear, television in the US is either 1080i/30fps or 720p/60fps. There is no 1080p television (outside of ATSC territory, replace with 1080i/25 fps and 720p/50 fps).
There are 1080p/24fps movies available on Blu-ray.
But there is zero 1080p/60fps television anywhere.
You can purchase a 4K/24fps media player with the Sony 4K set, with a very small amount of 4K/24fps content.
Such a low id, such faith in Capitalism !
I have a low ID because I was in the Internet industry in the early days. I saw the value of angel investors, venture capital, public markets, and private capital organizations make this incredible network that we are communicating over right now.
I was part of building the first e-commerce web sites. I was part of the first Internet video transmissions that now represent over 50% of Internet traffic, and let grandparents see their kids on the other side of the country or the world.
I also have been involved in worldwide industry, and know how tough the regulatory environment is in developing countries - how it makes starting a (legal) company difficult, makes you scared to hire people you may not be able to ever fire, makes it difficult to legally import equipment, etc. There is a reason why these countries remain poor. Go there and try to do business, and you will figure it out.
Some of the countries that have the highest success rates with micro-credits have pretty much no regulation whatsoever in banking.
What countries are you speaking of? India, where public sector banks have 70% of the sector's assets and new bank licenses are a "once in a decade affair"? Or where mobile money schemes like M-PESA are forced by regulation to be attached to a bank?
Or Bangladesh, where the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom says "Reform of the financial sector has been ongoing, but government ownership and interference remain considerable, undermining much-needed increases in efficiency"?
GDP per capita is a boring, irrelevant statistic when we're talking about quality of life for the masses.
So quality of life in Chad ($885 GDP per capita, economic freedom index 45.2) is better than Sweden ($55,244, economic freedom index 72.9)?
How about the relationship between economic freedom and life expectancy then?
I have managed CSR programs in Indonesia
Indonesia's banking system still needs reform:
Let me know when Indonesia privatizes all banks, ends regulations requiring SOEs to deposit their money in certain banks, and fully opens up the banking sector to international competition...
It is trivial even for the poorest people in the US to get a credit card or bank account. In other countries with corrupt government-controlled banking sectors, they need micro-credit.