If the US lost a "cyber war" enough to seriously damage our economic infrastructure, the world would lose.
Who imports all that stuff from China? A stalled US economy will lead to a lot of upset Chinese unemployed. Who still has the largest amount of global financial services? Care to try to cash in those stocks/bonds or "safe" US Treasury Securities when the US information infrastructure is down?
If the US real-estate bubble was enough to cause a global recession, what would happen if the entire information infrastructure of the US were taken out?
Any nation-state that thinks taking out the US will help them is stupid. Terrorism (the kind that can accept a global depression) is another story.
It is true that US manufacturing jobs are on the decline, but not because we are not manufacturing, but because manufacturing productivity is rising. More machines/robots are doing the work, and where humans are involved, the US is concentrating on higher value products.
This is EXACTLY what we saw in the farm industry. In 1900, 30% of Americans worked on a farm. Today, fewer than 2% do, but the US produces more food than it did in 1900 with far fewer workers and less land.
If the (mostly) low value-add manufacturing done by China had to be done in the US, it would be done by machines, not human workers.
as that the IPCC sea-level claim that was based on a paper that was retracted this week?
Yes, but unfortunately other predictions based on studies that have not been retracted are slightly more pessimistic:
"For future global temperature scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, the relationship projects a sea-level rise ranging from 75 to 190 cm for the period 1990-2100."
A 2m rise is pretty high. But there are plenty of places in the Netherlands at 5m or deeper below sea level...
The millions of poor people who will be drowned or left homeless never enters into the equation.
This is true. Poor people cannot drive in their cars away from a storm. Poor countries cannot afford solid seawalls. The poor are often driven into marginal land that may be flooded due to climate change.
The only solution to poverty is to encourage countries to no longer have policies that cause poverty. China dumped much of its communist-era limits on free markets, and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. India is on the path of reducing government barriers against the free market as well, if moving ahead slower. Now we need sub-Saharan Africa to reform.
The big question is how to balance the cost of CO2/methane emission reductions, climate change, and the ability of the poor to leave poverty. If the costs (in terms of lower economic growth) of avoiding climate change are too high, the poor may suffer more than if we did nothing, they became rich, yet the climate changes more.
Depending on how fast the planet is warming, I would think the massive flooding would be detrimental to their growing manufacturing industries.
The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report predicts sea level rises of 7 inches to 23 inches over the next 90 years depending on scenario. The truth is that while it is possible that there could be increases in hurricane activity, "massive flooding" is unlikely to have a significant effect on industrial production. An industrialized country like China can build up a seawall one inch per year, or move factories away from coasts.
There are no "rules of evidence" in a school setting.
This is not quite true. If a government is running a school, the government must not impinge on student rights. There are thousands of court cases every year regarding these kinds of issues. Jurisprudence shows a careful and often changing balance between student rights and allowing a school to function.
Which, in itself, is an argument for privatizing schools....
The PS3 can only deliver a 60p video, so they're going to do field-multiplexed 30p stereoscopic
Keep in mind that most stereoscopic movies are still 24p. Thus frame-alternating left/right a 24 views/second for each eye means the equivalent bandwidth of 1080p48, less than the 1080p60 HDMI 1.3 is capable of.
You'll have to explain that to the people who saw Avatar in IMAX 3D (including myself). Worked fine, but yeah I had to watch my head tilt...
DLP rear-projections were actually the first non-CRT stereoscopic TVs with active LCD shutter glasses, because they actually paint every frame with two sequential fields (think black and white squares on the checkerboard) to reduce the resolution needed of the DLP chip. The two fields were utilized for left and right eye views. The raster provided to the set had the left eye view in the "white squares", right eye view in the "black squares", with the LCD shutter glasses shutting the right eye during the left eye view field, and the shutting the left eye during the right eye view field.
There are circularly-polarized video displays based on LCDs available, such as the Hyundai IT S465D.
Update: I just downloaded the spec, and it does contain the ability to transmit "L+Depth" which I believe is a 2D+depth representation that could be used by non-glasses-based mutiview displays, but will probably not be too good to look at in such a display without occlusion or transparency data.
It is stereoscopic 3D. There is a format developed by Philips called Declipse that provided a 2D + depth + occlusion + transparency data that could provide a useful multi-view, non-glasses-based 3D display.
The argument about recouping research costs is no longer valid when most of the money goes into marketing instead of research.
But without marketing, you wouldn't have enough sales to earn the profits needed for the research, or to be able to risk taking drugs (that may fail) through the expensive FDA approval process.
I think $1149 worth of primary care medicine or even plain old sanitation in underdeveloped places could save a hell of a lot more lives than that.
Yes, but you can't actually provide medicine or sanitation to underdeveloped places. Corruption would mean the medicine would go back on the international market to richer people looking for a deal, and the sanitation building would have to pay off all kinds of government officials to get permits, etc. Then it would have to be maintained in that environment.
Countries aren't poor because they are poor, they are poor because they have bad institutions and governments.
On the other hand, a group of foreigners can fly into a country and vaccinate a bunch of people and fly out.
the current US healthcare system is a form of feudalism, where the serfs (workers with at least one family member not in perfect health) find it hard or impossible to leave the protection of their lords (large companies).
Health insurance in the US is linked to employers because of preferable tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance versus individual-provided health insurance. The tax law was changed in WWII to allow companies to have something else besides wages to compete for scarce workers, as wages were set by the government during the war. After the war, wages and prices were freed, but the tax law was never reverted to its original form.
Mind you, most economists feel the tax break still should be eradicated, but then people complain about "taxing their health benefits", missing the point that the law makes the market in individual health insurance (or other non-employer provided groups) nearly impossible.
Sunlight is photons. Energy. Vitamin D is matter. Vitamin D can't literally be in the sunlight.
7-dehydrocholesterol, a derivative of cholesterol, is photolyzed in the skin (mostly in the epidermal stratum basale and stratum spinosum) by ultraviolet light between 270-300 nm wavelength in 6-electron conrotatory electrocyclic reaction. The product is pre-vitamin D3.
Pre-vitamin D3 then spontaneously isomerizes to Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in a antarafacial hydride [1,7] Sigmatropic shift. At room temperature the transformation of previtamin-D3 to vitamin D3 takes about 12 days to complete.
Corporate and union political advertising is legal in Canada.
Under the Canada Elections Act, a corporation or union that may be a third party political advertiser. If they spend over $500, they must register with Elections Canada and include a copy of the resolution passed by its governing body authorizing it to spend money on election advertising.
A third party may spend a total of $150,000 on election advertising. It cannot spend more than $3,000 on advertising to promote or oppose the election of one or more candidates in a given electoral district.
What makes you say that? A corporation can certainly define official policies on all kinds of things, from IT security procedures, dress code, and yes, political beliefs.
There has never been an increase on business profits that has ever resulted in the loss of a single job
You ignore risk vs. reward. No one is going to invest in a corporation to taxed down to just make 1% or 2% a year on their investment which could go bankrupt when they could get the same risk-free return in US Treasury Securities.
The company decides to pay for an advertisement promoting this bill or individual. I work for that company, so some of the earnings I make for that company are being spent on something I disagree with.
1) The earnings of a company are the business of the stockholders, not employees. Employees are being paid the market rate for their services. 2) Of course if it pisses you off too much, quit. Or if you are a stockholder, sell.
Companies do annoying things all the time. Nothing forces you to work for, invest in, or purchase from a particular company.
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If the US lost a "cyber war" enough to seriously damage our economic infrastructure, the world would lose.
Who imports all that stuff from China? A stalled US economy will lead to a lot of upset Chinese unemployed. Who still has the largest amount of global financial services? Care to try to cash in those stocks/bonds or "safe" US Treasury Securities when the US information infrastructure is down?
If the US real-estate bubble was enough to cause a global recession, what would happen if the entire information infrastructure of the US were taken out?
Any nation-state that thinks taking out the US will help them is stupid. Terrorism (the kind that can accept a global depression) is another story.
Between government regulations and the unions you aren't going to have an opportunity to bring back manufacturing to the US.
The misunderstanding is that manufacturing ever "left" the US.
US manufacturing output reached an all-time-high of $1.6 trillion in 2007, nearly double the $811 billion in 1987.
It is true that US manufacturing jobs are on the decline, but not because we are not manufacturing, but because manufacturing productivity is rising. More machines/robots are doing the work, and where humans are involved, the US is concentrating on higher value products.
This is EXACTLY what we saw in the farm industry. In 1900, 30% of Americans worked on a farm. Today, fewer than 2% do, but the US produces more food than it did in 1900 with far fewer workers and less land.
If the (mostly) low value-add manufacturing done by China had to be done in the US, it would be done by machines, not human workers.
as that the IPCC sea-level claim that was based on a paper that was retracted this week?
Yes, but unfortunately other predictions based on studies that have not been retracted are slightly more pessimistic:
"For future global temperature scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, the relationship projects a sea-level rise ranging from 75 to 190 cm for the period 1990-2100."
A 2m rise is pretty high. But there are plenty of places in the Netherlands at 5m or deeper below sea level...
The millions of poor people who will be drowned or left homeless never enters into the equation.
This is true. Poor people cannot drive in their cars away from a storm. Poor countries cannot afford solid seawalls. The poor are often driven into marginal land that may be flooded due to climate change.
The only solution to poverty is to encourage countries to no longer have policies that cause poverty. China dumped much of its communist-era limits on free markets, and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. India is on the path of reducing government barriers against the free market as well, if moving ahead slower. Now we need sub-Saharan Africa to reform.
The big question is how to balance the cost of CO2/methane emission reductions, climate change, and the ability of the poor to leave poverty. If the costs (in terms of lower economic growth) of avoiding climate change are too high, the poor may suffer more than if we did nothing, they became rich, yet the climate changes more.
Depending on how fast the planet is warming, I would think the massive flooding would be detrimental to their growing manufacturing industries.
The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report predicts sea level rises of 7 inches to 23 inches over the next 90 years depending on scenario. The truth is that while it is possible that there could be increases in hurricane activity, "massive flooding" is unlikely to have a significant effect on industrial production. An industrialized country like China can build up a seawall one inch per year, or move factories away from coasts.
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There are no "rules of evidence" in a school setting.
This is not quite true. If a government is running a school, the government must not impinge on student rights. There are thousands of court cases every year regarding these kinds of issues. Jurisprudence shows a careful and often changing balance between student rights and allowing a school to function.
Which, in itself, is an argument for privatizing schools....
ROI is not the issue.
The issue is appeasing the Green God.
We used to appease the Sun God, then the son of God, now we've moved to the Green God.
9% of the total digital TV stations in the United States still utilize VHF. Las Vegas in an interesting market with 5 VHF stations,
The PS3 can only deliver a 60p video, so they're going to do field-multiplexed 30p stereoscopic
Keep in mind that most stereoscopic movies are still 24p. Thus frame-alternating left/right a 24 views/second for each eye means the equivalent bandwidth of 1080p48, less than the 1080p60 HDMI 1.3 is capable of.
Linear polarization is a fail in the theater
You'll have to explain that to the people who saw Avatar in IMAX 3D (including myself). Worked fine, but yeah I had to watch my head tilt...
DLP rear-projections were actually the first non-CRT stereoscopic TVs with active LCD shutter glasses, because they actually paint every frame with two sequential fields (think black and white squares on the checkerboard) to reduce the resolution needed of the DLP chip. The two fields were utilized for left and right eye views. The raster provided to the set had the left eye view in the "white squares", right eye view in the "black squares", with the LCD shutter glasses shutting the right eye during the left eye view field, and the shutting the left eye during the right eye view field.
There are circularly-polarized video displays based on LCDs available, such as the Hyundai IT S465D.
Right now, Google Chat is blocked. Google Voice is blocked. YouTube is blocked. Google Docs is blocked.
How can you block Google Chat/Voice when it tunnels over HTTPS? Does it go to known IPs different from the Google Mail servers?
Update: I just downloaded the spec, and it does contain the ability to transmit "L+Depth" which I believe is a 2D+depth representation that could be used by non-glasses-based mutiview displays, but will probably not be too good to look at in such a display without occlusion or transparency data.
Or is it a typo, and they meant stereo 2D?
It is stereoscopic 3D. There is a format developed by Philips called Declipse that provided a 2D + depth + occlusion + transparency data that could provide a useful multi-view, non-glasses-based 3D display.
The argument about recouping research costs is no longer valid when most of the money goes into marketing instead of research.
But without marketing, you wouldn't have enough sales to earn the profits needed for the research, or to be able to risk taking drugs (that may fail) through the expensive FDA approval process.
I think $1149 worth of primary care medicine or even plain old sanitation in underdeveloped places could save a hell of a lot more lives than that.
Yes, but you can't actually provide medicine or sanitation to underdeveloped places. Corruption would mean the medicine would go back on the international market to richer people looking for a deal, and the sanitation building would have to pay off all kinds of government officials to get permits, etc. Then it would have to be maintained in that environment.
Countries aren't poor because they are poor, they are poor because they have bad institutions and governments.
On the other hand, a group of foreigners can fly into a country and vaccinate a bunch of people and fly out.
the current US healthcare system is a form of feudalism, where the serfs (workers with at least one family member not in perfect health) find it hard or impossible to leave the protection of their lords (large companies).
Health insurance in the US is linked to employers because of preferable tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance versus individual-provided health insurance. The tax law was changed in WWII to allow companies to have something else besides wages to compete for scarce workers, as wages were set by the government during the war. After the war, wages and prices were freed, but the tax law was never reverted to its original form.
Mind you, most economists feel the tax break still should be eradicated, but then people complain about "taxing their health benefits", missing the point that the law makes the market in individual health insurance (or other non-employer provided groups) nearly impossible.
why use that 10b to give all Americans health care?
Health care expenditures in the United States on health care surpassed $2.2 trillion in 2007. $10B would only last 40 hours.
Who could have predicted that more government regulation of the Internet might have a downside?
Jacques could really use some help fertilizing their crops in FarmVille!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I hate that!
Sunlight is photons. Energy. Vitamin D is matter. Vitamin D can't literally be in the sunlight.
7-dehydrocholesterol, a derivative of cholesterol, is photolyzed in the skin (mostly in the epidermal stratum basale and stratum spinosum) by ultraviolet light between 270-300 nm wavelength in 6-electron conrotatory electrocyclic reaction. The product is pre-vitamin D3.
Pre-vitamin D3 then spontaneously isomerizes to Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in a antarafacial hydride [1,7] Sigmatropic shift. At room temperature the transformation of previtamin-D3 to vitamin D3 takes about 12 days to complete.
Corporate and union political advertising is legal in Canada.
Under the Canada Elections Act, a corporation or union that may be a third party political advertiser. If they spend over $500, they must register with Elections Canada and include a copy of the resolution passed by its governing body authorizing it to spend money on election advertising.
A third party may spend a total of $150,000 on election advertising. It cannot spend more than $3,000 on advertising to promote or oppose the election of one or more candidates in a given electoral district.
More info here.
A CORPORATION doesn't have an opinion,
What makes you say that? A corporation can certainly define official policies on all kinds of things, from IT security procedures, dress code, and yes, political beliefs.
There has never been an increase on business profits that has ever resulted in the loss of a single job
You ignore risk vs. reward. No one is going to invest in a corporation to taxed down to just make 1% or 2% a year on their investment which could go bankrupt when they could get the same risk-free return in US Treasury Securities.
No investment = no jobs.
The company decides to pay for an advertisement promoting this bill or individual. I work for that company, so some of the earnings I make for that company are being spent on something I disagree with.
1) The earnings of a company are the business of the stockholders, not employees. Employees are being paid the market rate for their services.
2) Of course if it pisses you off too much, quit. Or if you are a stockholder, sell.
Companies do annoying things all the time. Nothing forces you to work for, invest in, or purchase from a particular company.