Yet, I was required to buy auto insurance by every state I lived in
The US Federal Government has the power under the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
The legal argument is that "regulate commerce among states" does not mean "can make every American purchase something they do not want".
States do not have this limitation under the US Constitution. In fact, the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Furthermore, auto insurance is only required by state law to be purchased if you wish the privilege of operating a vehicle on public roads. The health insurance purchase requirement applies to all Americans under all circumstances.
I'm pretty sure that the police do not have jurisdiction to shoot down aircraft.
You may want to talk to the NYPD who has said they can shoot down planes, likely speaking of Barrett.50 caliber rifles that can be mounted on their police helicopters.
I wonder if it makes sense to replace tar for on-disk files.
I don't think so - LTFS is really only for tapes (LTO-5 and above in particular). It allows you to mount a tape just like a hard drive filesystem, with files and directories ready to go.
I suggest everyone doing tape backup start using LTFS. It has support under Red Hat, SUSE, and OS X as well as Windows.
When people worked 6 10hour days a week for minimal wages. It wasn't modernization that stopped the practice. It was people on the streets demanding it. Unions and a lot of violence and heartace.
Or it was technological and business practice improvements raising US worker productivity which lead to rising wages and affordability of better working conditions. Unions may have played a role, but without productivity improvements, unions could not have had much influence (and indeed, they did not until in the US the 1920's).
Chinese factory worker wages are continuing to rise, despite the lack of unions, as the capital stock improves and businesses are able to become more productive.
there is no recourse for poor working conditions
Many Chinese migrants move from factory to factory as they build up a work history to find ones that have better work conditions and higher pay.
Uncompressed HD is in the neighborhood of 1.5 Gbps. Lossless JPEG 2000 averages around 400-500 Mbps for HD video. DNxHD of "broadcast quality" is 100-200 Mbps. AVC-I 100 (100 Mbps) is probably good enough for most news and sports usage.
I can tell you that several major TV show producers are archiving HD shows using LTO-5 with LTFS today, using uncompressed, JPEG 2000 lossless, or JPEG 2000 lossy @ 100 Mbps.
LTFS is the key technology, because TAR was just too annoying to use.
I've seen LTO-5 with LTFS used to bring back dailies of TV shows from remote locations without good network connectivity. The files on tape go directly into the non-linear editor, faster than a real-time ingest.
There is zero solid evidence that stored cord blood is useful for anything now. It is a waste of money to store.
Could it be of use in the future? Doubtful - any kind of real stem cell treatments are 10-20 years away, and they will likely have solved most of the IPS issues by then so your skin cells might be as useful as cord blood stem cells.
Pretty much everything in my house is designed by a Japanese or Thai or Korean company.
Obviously you don't have an iPad or a movie in your house:)
However you should also keep in mind that even foreign companies have US R&D teams (Sony, LG, etc.)
And of course Intel is based in the US (although it also has global R&D teams), and I know that ARM has a large presence in Austin even though it is a UK-based firm.
You are correct that the earth receives only so much sunlight per square meter. These towers are only absorbing light that would otherwise not hit the roof - it might otherwise go into the street (where solar panels are not practical) or could be shading your neighbor's roof (where solar panels could be practical).
"if you're going to be sitting six feet away, you need at least a 42-inch TV. Preferably a 47-inch."
HD screen resolution was designed for folks with normal vision to view at three picture heights (about the occluding size of your palm and thumb if you make a "hitchhiker" thumb and hold it at arm's length).
6 feet away implies 2 foot tall screen and at 16:9 implies 49" diagonal.
Any larger and you will start seeing pixels, any smaller and you will not be able to see the full HD resolution (maybe those appeal to some people?)
The only people chatting seriously about 4K TV in the US is DirecTV (who can use H.264 and have 30 to 60 Mbps on a transponder).
However I really doubt there is going to be much move to broadcast 4K. I think a lot of people are feeling "burnt" by the effort for stereoscopic 3D in the home, and are not likely to jump into 4K distribution unless someone (like a CE) is pushing money at them.
The next big thing in over-the-air TV in the US is lower bit rate H.264 encoded mobile channels, not 4K or 3D.
The US is the third largest producer of oil after Russia and Saudi Arabia.
This year. Citigroup analysis are predicting that before 2015, US oil production will surpass that of Russia and Saudi Arabia, and that between efficiency increases and new production, that global oil prices will drop around 15% by 2020.
From the actual scientific article:
In long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular and molecular model for memory, post-synaptic calcium ion (Ca2+) flux activates the hexagonal Ca2+-calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII), a dodacameric holoenzyme containing 2 hexagonal sets of 6 kinase domains. Each kinase domain can either phosphorylate substrate proteins, or not (i.e. encoding one bit). Thus each set of extended CaMKII kinases can potentially encode synaptic Ca2+ information via phosphorylation as ordered arrays of binary "bits"... ...this suggests sets of six CaMKII kinase domains phosphorylate hexagonal MT lattice neighborhoods collectively, e.g. conveying synaptic information as ordered arrays of six "bits", and thus "bytes", with 64 to 5,281 possible bit states per CaMKII-MT byte...
The laws were put into place to discourage fraud. If you want to get people to invest in your project, you need to go through a formal prospectus.
In most start-ups, the risk of business failure is thousands of times greater than the risk of fraud!
I would love to know whether the rules in place provide enough fraud reduction benefit to make up for the costs of the registration. You should be required to say "YOU ARE LIKELY TO LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY" to investors, anything else is unlikely to be of much benefit vs. cost.
The people of Iran voted for women's suffrage in 1963.
And indeed, women in Iran are far more free than those in Saudi Arabia. But let us remember that vote occurred under the government of a corrupt dictator, and was much more about abolishing the feudal landlord/peasant system than any of the "liberal" reforms.
But it doesn't change the fact that the country remains a crony socialist one and basically a dictatorship at the core. That is the cultural change required.
Dividends are considered income in the US not capital gains.
More precisely, since 2003, non-qualified dividends (on stocks held under 60 days) are taxed at your normal income tax rate, but qualified dividends (on stocks held more than 60 days) are taxed at a 5% or 15% rate based on your income level.
suicides at FoxConn amount to about 3 in 100,000. Since FoxConn has around 900,000 employees -- it seems like a lot, but it's less than the average in the US or China.
And misses the important fact that Chinese rural suicide rates are actually very high. Many Chinese are very happy to not be in the countryside any more when they get an urban factory job.
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Yet, I was required to buy auto insurance by every state I lived in
The US Federal Government has the power under the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
The legal argument is that "regulate commerce among states" does not mean "can make every American purchase something they do not want".
States do not have this limitation under the US Constitution. In fact, the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Furthermore, auto insurance is only required by state law to be purchased if you wish the privilege of operating a vehicle on public roads. The health insurance purchase requirement applies to all Americans under all circumstances.
As in, if they don't like their government, or if they are okay with it.
I suspect Chinese feel their government is much better now that it isn't starving tens of millions of people to death or commiting widespread violent political persecution especially given that over 100 million Chinese have been brought out of absolute poverty.
But at some point, these relative enhancements in government performance may no longer seem enough.
I'm pretty sure that the police do not have jurisdiction to shoot down aircraft.
You may want to talk to the NYPD who has said they can shoot down planes, likely speaking of Barrett .50 caliber rifles that can be mounted on their police helicopters.
The Molnari Gryocycle street-legal gyrocopter motorcycle is way ahead!
Pennies cost more to make than their worth
Their cost is rounding errors on the US federal spending.
But if you really want them cheaper, make them from stainless steel and outsource their production to China!
I wonder if it makes sense to replace tar for on-disk files.
I don't think so - LTFS is really only for tapes (LTO-5 and above in particular). It allows you to mount a tape just like a hard drive filesystem, with files and directories ready to go.
I suggest everyone doing tape backup start using LTFS. It has support under Red Hat, SUSE, and OS X as well as Windows.
When people worked 6 10hour days a week for minimal wages. It wasn't modernization that stopped the practice. It was people on the streets demanding it. Unions and a lot of violence and heartace.
Or it was technological and business practice improvements raising US worker productivity which lead to rising wages and affordability of better working conditions. Unions may have played a role, but without productivity improvements, unions could not have had much influence (and indeed, they did not until in the US the 1920's).
Chinese factory worker wages are continuing to rise, despite the lack of unions, as the capital stock improves and businesses are able to become more productive.
there is no recourse for poor working conditions
Many Chinese migrants move from factory to factory as they build up a work history to find ones that have better work conditions and higher pay.
China has work rules!?
You can read them here. Those are only the national laws, there may be local laws above those as well.
Uncompressed HD is in the neighborhood of 1.5 Gbps. Lossless JPEG 2000 averages around 400-500 Mbps for HD video. DNxHD of "broadcast quality" is 100-200 Mbps. AVC-I 100 (100 Mbps) is probably good enough for most news and sports usage.
I can tell you that several major TV show producers are archiving HD shows using LTO-5 with LTFS today, using uncompressed, JPEG 2000 lossless, or JPEG 2000 lossy @ 100 Mbps.
LTFS is the key technology, because TAR was just too annoying to use.
I've seen LTO-5 with LTFS used to bring back dailies of TV shows from remote locations without good network connectivity. The files on tape go directly into the non-linear editor, faster than a real-time ingest.
As much as I think the Pi is a cool project, I'm beginning to put it in the same category as BitCoin.
This is totally an unfair comparison. You can buy a BitCoin today, you can't buy a Pi!
Many other dev boards don't have CE certification either
Yeah, but the Arduino UNO is CE and FCC certified...
There is zero solid evidence that stored cord blood is useful for anything now. It is a waste of money to store.
Could it be of use in the future? Doubtful - any kind of real stem cell treatments are 10-20 years away, and they will likely have solved most of the IPS issues by then so your skin cells might be as useful as cord blood stem cells.
Pretty much everything in my house is designed by a Japanese or Thai or Korean company.
Obviously you don't have an iPad or a movie in your house :)
However you should also keep in mind that even foreign companies have US R&D teams (Sony, LG, etc.)
And of course Intel is based in the US (although it also has global R&D teams), and I know that ARM has a large presence in Austin even though it is a UK-based firm.
You are correct that the earth receives only so much sunlight per square meter. These towers are only absorbing light that would otherwise not hit the roof - it might otherwise go into the street (where solar panels are not practical) or could be shading your neighbor's roof (where solar panels could be practical).
"if you're going to be sitting six feet away, you need at least a 42-inch TV. Preferably a 47-inch."
HD screen resolution was designed for folks with normal vision to view at three picture heights (about the occluding size of your palm and thumb if you make a "hitchhiker" thumb and hold it at arm's length).
6 feet away implies 2 foot tall screen and at 16:9 implies 49" diagonal.
Any larger and you will start seeing pixels, any smaller and you will not be able to see the full HD resolution (maybe those appeal to some people?)
The only people chatting seriously about 4K TV in the US is DirecTV (who can use H.264 and have 30 to 60 Mbps on a transponder).
However I really doubt there is going to be much move to broadcast 4K. I think a lot of people are feeling "burnt" by the effort for stereoscopic 3D in the home, and are not likely to jump into 4K distribution unless someone (like a CE) is pushing money at them.
The next big thing in over-the-air TV in the US is lower bit rate H.264 encoded mobile channels, not 4K or 3D.
The US is the third largest producer of oil after Russia and Saudi Arabia.
This year. Citigroup analysis are predicting that before 2015, US oil production will surpass that of Russia and Saudi Arabia, and that between efficiency increases and new production, that global oil prices will drop around 15% by 2020.
And guess what, if you compare oil prices with gasoline prices, they do look fairly correlated.
From the actual scientific article:
...this suggests sets of six CaMKII kinase domains phosphorylate hexagonal MT lattice neighborhoods collectively, e.g. conveying synaptic information as ordered arrays of six "bits", and thus "bytes", with 64 to 5,281 possible bit states per CaMKII-MT byte...
In long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular and molecular model for memory, post-synaptic calcium ion (Ca2+) flux activates the hexagonal Ca2+-calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII), a dodacameric holoenzyme containing 2 hexagonal sets of 6 kinase domains. Each kinase domain can either phosphorylate substrate proteins, or not (i.e. encoding one bit). Thus each set of extended CaMKII kinases can potentially encode synaptic Ca2+ information via phosphorylation as ordered arrays of binary "bits"...
The laws were put into place to discourage fraud. If you want to get people to invest in your project, you need to go through a formal prospectus.
In most start-ups, the risk of business failure is thousands of times greater than the risk of fraud!
I would love to know whether the rules in place provide enough fraud reduction benefit to make up for the costs of the registration. You should be required to say "YOU ARE LIKELY TO LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY" to investors, anything else is unlikely to be of much benefit vs. cost.
The people of Iran voted for women's suffrage in 1963.
And indeed, women in Iran are far more free than those in Saudi Arabia. But let us remember that vote occurred under the government of a corrupt dictator, and was much more about abolishing the feudal landlord/peasant system than any of the "liberal" reforms.
But it doesn't change the fact that the country remains a crony socialist one and basically a dictatorship at the core. That is the cultural change required.
Dividends are considered income in the US not capital gains.
More precisely, since 2003, non-qualified dividends (on stocks held under 60 days) are taxed at your normal income tax rate, but qualified dividends (on stocks held more than 60 days) are taxed at a 5% or 15% rate based on your income level.
The Obama Administration has recently suggested ending the tax benefit for qualified dividends for high income individuals and them pay ordinary income tax rates on all dividends.
suicides at FoxConn amount to about 3 in 100,000. Since FoxConn has around 900,000 employees -- it seems like a lot, but it's less than the average in the US or China.
And misses the important fact that Chinese rural suicide rates are actually very high. Many Chinese are very happy to not be in the countryside any more when they get an urban factory job.