The ways in which one atmosphere plasmas modify material properties, such as with this plastic bag, aren't new at all. My college professor in a graduate course on nuclear fusion (an elective while I was an undergrad) discussed them more than a decade ago. The only thing I see that is remotely new is creating the plasma after the bag is sealed, rather than creating the plasma externally and then piping it into the bag.
Unfortunately the technology got all tangled up with the government, and then a number of people (including my former professor) were arrested for sharing "secrets" about this technology with "foreign nationals". So of course now all the public scientific advances in this field have to come from some other country.
The thing is, the customers of stock markets are companies that choose to list on them. Could we create a market that attracted companies due to its differing financial rules?
I'd like to see a market that has strict trading rules: 1. Trades occur once every five seconds. 2. Any trade requests that arrive in the five seconds leading up to a trade a queued. 3. When processing trades, they are done in a way that favors those not engaging in high-frequency trades. For example, to avoid middlemen buying and reselling stock in the gap, always match highest-price buyers with lowest-price sellers first. I'd love to see more brainstorming on trade processing order logic to minimize the effect of the predatory traders.
Five seconds is somewhat arbitrary. I'd consider a low as one second or as high as 30 seconds - wherever was necessary to ensure reasonable compromise. The real issue is convincing companies that being listed on such a market helped their bottom line, but making them less immune to predatory trading, without hurting their ability to raise capital.
That's what I meant by "fleeting". Once the thriving economy pulls the cost of living up, all the "middle class" that make less than the U.S. poverty line will find their income falling relative to costs, just as happened here.
The problem is that the corner cases (those with no family history) whose cancer was caught by the screening are humans, and they will be very, very vocal about their desire to continue living. And over here one of our political parties will point at you and say something like, "See? In government-run health care they want to stop the screenings that saved the lives of Mrs. A and Ms. B and Mrs. C! Isn't that horrible!" And then nothing is accomplished.
Short of the companies wanting to the good/legal thing, how do you get them to make it public if it quickly puts them out of business? This is the same problem as with any security breach, except aggravated because the CAs basically have just five "customers" (the five major browsers), all of which compete in the realm of being the "safest" and so all five have to pull the root certificate for anyone who announces a problem.
I totally thought that at least some cities/states allowed private citizens to sign up as parking violation enforcers *for handicapped parking only*. You couldn't write tickets at meters, etc., but you were given a ticket pad and allowed to issue citations for improper handicap parking.
All that road work is done by contractors, too. You just meant that we should drop cable whenever we have the earth open already, right? Which means that we can't do it for surface-only work, but we certainly could whenever or wherever we're putting in sewage. Any city with municipal fiber probably already does this. (Hell, as far as I know they run the fiber in lines in the sewer pipes.) But of course municipal fiber is basically dead every where since it competes with companies that won't do shit without a subsidy anyway.
Uhh, the only reason they have more than one service provider is because of the Universal Service Fund. Gotta credit the government with giving them a choice at all.
I have no interest in letting private companies tear up the road to my house all the time. I don't want to drive on that, both for me and the wear on my car. And I know that none of those companies would pay for the damage to me or my car unless I sue them, and I would never be able to because of the free-market costs for a lawyer. Instead, I'd rather get together with my neighbors, get some guns, and pass a few "laws" that say they can't tear up roads in my town any more. Which, incidentally, is exactly what my city council says right now. Score one for government in this case.
So why doesn't Coke merge with Pepsi?
Because the government stops them? Sometimes companies like to create a market, so that they can advertise the products as "not proprietary". But usually the company that created a market wants to dominate it, while the other companies are just there to pick up scraps. I suspect that Pepsi, not so much with their flagship product but more with their water/non-Cola/etc., have taken so much of Coke's revenue that they would happily merge/buy out if the government would allow it. Score another one for the government with your example here.
You know we spent $720 million per day on the Iraq War, right? Sure, bad spending is bad spending, but a few million dollars to hurry up our process of disconnecting our lives from the Middle East is well worth it.
(Yes, most of our oil comes from other places, but the global supply and global pricing is still based on Middle East stability.)
Off the top of my head, I spend about $0.105 per kWh, and it's 100% wind. That's a decent rate in Texas. My bill last month was about $200, of which I assume $20 was overhead bullshit and fees, so I'd guess I used maybe 1700 kWh. That seems really high, but that was the last bill for the 100+ degree stretch this summer with over 90 days over 100. My bill should drop greatly this month; the house has been stuffy because the AC hasn't been running some days since it's been so nice.
We're about to downsize from a 2400 sq ft house to 1100, and while our "new" house is much older, I'm hoping to never see bills that high again, at least after I blow some more insulation in our new attic.
The XP box I'm typing this on uses the "classic" look/feel - something still available then but (afaik) gone with Vista or 7. I say "No thanks!" to Fisher Price "My First PC" menus!
I always thought the emergency broadcast system was one of the coolest things our government could provide. It involves everyone in the broadcast business working together to convey information solely to help the public.
But then, this summer, one quarter of Burnet County burned nearby. At the same time other fires were spreading in Steiner Ranch, Cedar Park, and Pflugerville, all of which threatened or destroyed homes. And they never activated the emergency broadcast system. Sure the local TV networks had scrolls on the bottom of the screen, but they didn't cut from network content. The first night, only one local AM radio station (KLBJ FM) and twitter were providing any information at all.
So I have to ask: if apocalyptic fires aren't enough to activate the system, what is? I already know tornadoes aren't sufficient; it's never been used for those, either. Is it just a hurricane/volcano/nuclear war warning system? Why bother with it nationwide if that's all it's good for?
I realize that there are benefits to having large numbers of identical machines to ease management, but I assume these machines are going out into remote places where there won't be hundreds of them to control anyway.
Wouldn't refurbished Dell boxen, acquired 50-100 at a time, be more powerful and cost less than $25 each to deploy? This could be especially true if skilled laborers in the destination country did the refurbishing, imaging, and deployment.
That's because entrepreneurship still thrives in China and India, where a hard-working, motivated individual can start a company with nothing, gather some employees, and contract to one of the big corporations to get (relatively) rich.
(without looking up the facts) China and India's middle class make, on average, less than the U.S. poverty line, so that "middle class" is fleeting.
Isn't New Hampshire the state where all the libertarians wanted to move, so as to create something akin to their utopia? Did enough move there to influence the state legislature? No?
If you replace boiling water with radiated heat, I agree. People won't hold their hand over a radiator until it burns, but they'll "sunbathe" for the same effect, just more slowly. Silly.
Note that my wife's 2004 535 gets about 30 mixed city / 40 hwy. BMW certainly can make an efficient engine when they want to. As far as I know they burn a few extra liters per ounce just to make my muffler rumble the way it tantalizingly does.
I will miss the deep guttural growl of a revving German engine when we all switch to electrics.
That's assuming you develop apps that are exclusive to one or the other. What if RIM had compilation software that could read 90% of your iOS files untouched?
I wanted a four-seater convertible sports car with a high-mileage engine, but there simply wasn't anything on the market at that point. I'm looking forward to the Fisker Karma Sunset if they're able to get one on the market.
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The ways in which one atmosphere plasmas modify material properties, such as with this plastic bag, aren't new at all. My college professor in a graduate course on nuclear fusion (an elective while I was an undergrad) discussed them more than a decade ago. The only thing I see that is remotely new is creating the plasma after the bag is sealed, rather than creating the plasma externally and then piping it into the bag.
Unfortunately the technology got all tangled up with the government, and then a number of people (including my former professor) were arrested for sharing "secrets" about this technology with "foreign nationals". So of course now all the public scientific advances in this field have to come from some other country.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/24/atmospheric-glow-to-sell/
Are you implying that women are biologically incapable of becoming a tech business leader?
The thing is, the customers of stock markets are companies that choose to list on them. Could we create a market that attracted companies due to its differing financial rules?
I'd like to see a market that has strict trading rules:
1. Trades occur once every five seconds.
2. Any trade requests that arrive in the five seconds leading up to a trade a queued.
3. When processing trades, they are done in a way that favors those not engaging in high-frequency trades. For example, to avoid middlemen buying and reselling stock in the gap, always match highest-price buyers with lowest-price sellers first. I'd love to see more brainstorming on trade processing order logic to minimize the effect of the predatory traders.
Five seconds is somewhat arbitrary. I'd consider a low as one second or as high as 30 seconds - wherever was necessary to ensure reasonable compromise. The real issue is convincing companies that being listed on such a market helped their bottom line, but making them less immune to predatory trading, without hurting their ability to raise capital.
Any other ideas?
That's what I meant by "fleeting". Once the thriving economy pulls the cost of living up, all the "middle class" that make less than the U.S. poverty line will find their income falling relative to costs, just as happened here.
On the other other hand, if he does come back again and take control of Apple, I suspect their success will skyrocket....
It matters because I, going 77-in-a-70 in the slow lane, might get pulled over along with the guy going 92 in the fast lane.
The problem is that the corner cases (those with no family history) whose cancer was caught by the screening are humans, and they will be very, very vocal about their desire to continue living. And over here one of our political parties will point at you and say something like, "See? In government-run health care they want to stop the screenings that saved the lives of Mrs. A and Ms. B and Mrs. C! Isn't that horrible!" And then nothing is accomplished.
Short of the companies wanting to the good/legal thing, how do you get them to make it public if it quickly puts them out of business? This is the same problem as with any security breach, except aggravated because the CAs basically have just five "customers" (the five major browsers), all of which compete in the realm of being the "safest" and so all five have to pull the root certificate for anyone who announces a problem.
I totally thought that at least some cities/states allowed private citizens to sign up as parking violation enforcers *for handicapped parking only*. You couldn't write tickets at meters, etc., but you were given a ticket pad and allowed to issue citations for improper handicap parking.
All that road work is done by contractors, too. You just meant that we should drop cable whenever we have the earth open already, right? Which means that we can't do it for surface-only work, but we certainly could whenever or wherever we're putting in sewage. Any city with municipal fiber probably already does this. (Hell, as far as I know they run the fiber in lines in the sewer pipes.) But of course municipal fiber is basically dead every where since it competes with companies that won't do shit without a subsidy anyway.
Uhh, the only reason they have more than one service provider is because of the Universal Service Fund. Gotta credit the government with giving them a choice at all.
I have no interest in letting private companies tear up the road to my house all the time. I don't want to drive on that, both for me and the wear on my car. And I know that none of those companies would pay for the damage to me or my car unless I sue them, and I would never be able to because of the free-market costs for a lawyer. Instead, I'd rather get together with my neighbors, get some guns, and pass a few "laws" that say they can't tear up roads in my town any more. Which, incidentally, is exactly what my city council says right now. Score one for government in this case.
So why doesn't Coke merge with Pepsi?
Because the government stops them? Sometimes companies like to create a market, so that they can advertise the products as "not proprietary". But usually the company that created a market wants to dominate it, while the other companies are just there to pick up scraps. I suspect that Pepsi, not so much with their flagship product but more with their water/non-Cola/etc., have taken so much of Coke's revenue that they would happily merge/buy out if the government would allow it. Score another one for the government with your example here.
You know we spent $720 million per day on the Iraq War, right? Sure, bad spending is bad spending, but a few million dollars to hurry up our process of disconnecting our lives from the Middle East is well worth it.
(Yes, most of our oil comes from other places, but the global supply and global pricing is still based on Middle East stability.)
Off the top of my head, I spend about $0.105 per kWh, and it's 100% wind. That's a decent rate in Texas. My bill last month was about $200, of which I assume $20 was overhead bullshit and fees, so I'd guess I used maybe 1700 kWh. That seems really high, but that was the last bill for the 100+ degree stretch this summer with over 90 days over 100. My bill should drop greatly this month; the house has been stuffy because the AC hasn't been running some days since it's been so nice.
We're about to downsize from a 2400 sq ft house to 1100, and while our "new" house is much older, I'm hoping to never see bills that high again, at least after I blow some more insulation in our new attic.
The XP box I'm typing this on uses the "classic" look/feel - something still available then but (afaik) gone with Vista or 7. I say "No thanks!" to Fisher Price "My First PC" menus!
I meant KLBJ AM. My mistake.
I always thought the emergency broadcast system was one of the coolest things our government could provide. It involves everyone in the broadcast business working together to convey information solely to help the public.
But then, this summer, one quarter of Burnet County burned nearby. At the same time other fires were spreading in Steiner Ranch, Cedar Park, and Pflugerville, all of which threatened or destroyed homes. And they never activated the emergency broadcast system. Sure the local TV networks had scrolls on the bottom of the screen, but they didn't cut from network content. The first night, only one local AM radio station (KLBJ FM) and twitter were providing any information at all.
So I have to ask: if apocalyptic fires aren't enough to activate the system, what is? I already know tornadoes aren't sufficient; it's never been used for those, either. Is it just a hurricane/volcano/nuclear war warning system? Why bother with it nationwide if that's all it's good for?
I realize that there are benefits to having large numbers of identical machines to ease management, but I assume these machines are going out into remote places where there won't be hundreds of them to control anyway.
Wouldn't refurbished Dell boxen, acquired 50-100 at a time, be more powerful and cost less than $25 each to deploy? This could be especially true if skilled laborers in the destination country did the refurbishing, imaging, and deployment.
That's because entrepreneurship still thrives in China and India, where a hard-working, motivated individual can start a company with nothing, gather some employees, and contract to one of the big corporations to get (relatively) rich.
(without looking up the facts) China and India's middle class make, on average, less than the U.S. poverty line, so that "middle class" is fleeting.
Isn't New Hampshire the state where all the libertarians wanted to move, so as to create something akin to their utopia? Did enough move there to influence the state legislature? No?
If you replace boiling water with radiated heat, I agree. People won't hold their hand over a radiator until it burns, but they'll "sunbathe" for the same effect, just more slowly. Silly.
Note that my wife's 2004 535 gets about 30 mixed city / 40 hwy. BMW certainly can make an efficient engine when they want to. As far as I know they burn a few extra liters per ounce just to make my muffler rumble the way it tantalizingly does.
I will miss the deep guttural growl of a revving German engine when we all switch to electrics.
That's assuming you develop apps that are exclusive to one or the other. What if RIM had compilation software that could read 90% of your iOS files untouched?
Yeah, I thought labs was one of the coolest things Google could share with us.
My engine has been tuned by Dinan, but I don't think that cost me all that much. The stock mileage is pretty crappy, too.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/20600.shtml
I wanted a four-seater convertible sports car with a high-mileage engine, but there simply wasn't anything on the market at that point. I'm looking forward to the Fisker Karma Sunset if they're able to get one on the market.