They've become reasonably popular on college campuses to operate vending machines, laundry and they like. However, they're probably on the list for their future potential more than anything that's been realized yet.
From the article: "American Express and MasterCard became huge successes overnight, and by the mid-'70s, Congress had to begin regulation of the credit card industry by banning such practices as the mass mailing of active cards to those who had not requested them."
There's a very simple way to defeat RFID's. An EM pulse. Real easy - so easy in fact, some stores are considering doing it at the check out counter to allay customers worries. Of course then they'd track you because you don't have a tag implanted in your clothing (LOL!)
The Economist (economist.com) a well respected british news weekly makes content available online to all subscribers for no aditional fee - and prior to the issue being available on the newstand (articles go up 5PM GMT Thursday, I rarely receive my issue before Saturday). It's a dense enough publication that I have little desire to read the whole online, but it is a great way to refer to prior articles.
If the Feds had waited until they had a case on Mr. Hawash then it is very likely that he would have received a far worse sentence than 7 years.
Extraordinarily doubtful given the 20 years that the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh got in his plea bargain. I'd say Justice took what they could get - without a long trial where they might just come up short.
Because at some point you have to cope with a drop in demand, so they're a bunch of people sitting around with their thumbs up their ass with not even a job that they can do.
Yes, it is very close to JIT. This is made possible because MINI's are selling like hotcakes and dealers CAN'T keep them on the lot! (I live down the street - they can hardly keep demonstrators on the lot) GM & Ford would love to be in this position- except for the small problem that people don't want to buy Buicks, so they've a nice inventory built up (sales being nonuniform throughout the year, and factories like to be run at constant output).
The first Sport Utility Wagon was not a Subraru Outback, oh no - it was the AMC Eagle (AMC later being purchase by Chrysler).
http://www.users.nac.net/gr/eagleweb/
Subaru's claim has always bugged the hell out of me.
It basically is an example of a low-cost commercial launch system company going under as a result having to compete with NASA.
It's not having to compete with NASA that drives them under. It's having to compete with NASA, DOD, and the army of fortune 500 contractors who manufacture the stuff (LockMart, Boeing, UTC, Morton Thiokol....) That's a force unstoppable in the world today.
Quite easily - in a cable tension is along the longitudinal axis of the cable, whether or not it's resting on anything has little to do with the longitudinal axis.
More importantly - your silvering (or whatever) would have to survive the high (a couple thousand K) tempteratures produced from air resistance. This in and of itself would be difficult.
The common trick you have for lasers is having a wide beam diameter initially(in this case at aircraft) - and then having a lens focus the beam on the target. This allows you to have lower power densities at the lens train, and higher power densities where you want it, on the target.
"the ABL's tactic is to heat the fuel tanks of the missile, exploding it from inside."
The tactic is actually to ablate away the missile's casing over the fuel, leading to a weakened casing - which then in Solid fuel rockets leads to uneven propellant burn (which is what happened to the shuttle challenger)
Many merchants offer free shipping for purchases over $100. Now here in California we pay 8.5% sales tax - with no charge for shipping, your saving actual money (defined as a lunch out).
The problem with the "higher service" explanation is you have to pay sales tax on any item purchased from a store that has a presence in the state - and nowadays most retail presences are different from the mail order side. So when you live in New York State (say Buffalo) and order something from REI.com, the order is taken in Seattle, it's shipped from Seattle - and it never comes within 500 miles of the only REI in New York State. But you still have to pay New York State sales tax - even though the resource use by you is essentially the same as any other remote vendor.
You don't really need the Stealth's paint to make a stealth car. Car & Driver magazine found out several years ago that a Black Car, with no trim & pop up headlamps is practically invisible to radar. (Sorry no link - it's an early 90's issue, and therefore preweb)
I didn't mean to construe special interests as only being businesses. All groups designed to benefit a non-majority of society are special interests, whether they be liberal, conservative, for profit or nonprofit. My point was simply that the absence of government regulation also benefits companies - of course this benefit could be offset by reductions of government protection in other sectors.
"Limit the powers of government and the size of the campaigns will immeditally shrink."
Ideally yes - practically no, because absence of regulation(government interference) tends to specifically benefit interested parties. If you doubt look at how the Reagan deregulation boom, designed to limit government influence, benefitted special interests(which is government influencing policy).
The way to reduce the power of politicians(and thereby their susceptibiility to influence) is not by limiting government power - it's by increasing the transparency of the political process. Major Rule reforms in the Senate(no more anonymous holds, no more unrelated riders) & House would create impediments to the shenaningans that give them power.
"Fear is a pretty useless method of motivating staff."
It's not fear. My point is only the carrot is not the sole management tool - as too many managers believe it is. It can work wonders in the right evironment - but fail miserably in others. It's particularly ineffective at motivating staff to follow small, niggling details like cleanroom policy or security policy. I've talked to experts on this(at research labs, semiconductor firms & telcom), believe me, and worked on implementing them myself - the only way to receive full compliance (and this is true even at Intel) was with a stick - like pay docking, or demerits.
Furthermore. I'll bet your from a "new" industry. Not all companies can grow quickly, nor are all industries staffed with transient workers who "know" their value. Many industries (healthcare, however, is fast leaving this group) are staffed by persons who just want to collect a paycheck - and they're paid so lowly there's little chance of them being headhunted away, and have little motivation to find a new job(and depending on the region there may not be a new job). For these employees incentives, while it would be wonderful if they did work, rarely do.
My talk wasn't meant to be "macho", more realistic - you'll never, ever receive 100% compliance with any policy that only rewards employees for doing their job - but if you graft a policy of rewards for top performers, and penalties for the bottom you can come near these numbers.
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They've become reasonably popular on college campuses to operate vending machines, laundry and they like. However, they're probably on the list for their future potential more than anything that's been realized yet.
From the article:
"American Express and MasterCard became huge successes overnight, and by the mid-'70s, Congress had to begin regulation of the credit card industry by banning such practices as the mass mailing of active cards to those who had not requested them."
Hmm. The article I read in the Economist a month or so ago differed. I'll have to research.
I would venture to say it doesn't have to be physically destroyed though, merely modified, i.e. trimming the tag slightly.
There's a very simple way to defeat RFID's. An EM pulse. Real easy - so easy in fact, some stores are considering doing it at the check out counter to allay customers worries. Of course then they'd track you because you don't have a tag implanted in your clothing (LOL!)
The Economist (economist.com) a well respected british news weekly makes content available online to all subscribers for no aditional fee - and prior to the issue being available on the newstand (articles go up 5PM GMT Thursday, I rarely receive my issue before Saturday). It's a dense enough publication that I have little desire to read the whole online, but it is a great way to refer to prior articles.
It probably did take him 4 seconds - but he's a union worker - so why should he care?
If the Feds had waited until they had a case on Mr. Hawash then it is very likely that he would have received a far worse sentence than 7 years.
Extraordinarily doubtful given the 20 years that the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh got in his plea bargain. I'd say Justice took what they could get - without a long trial where they might just come up short.
Because at some point you have to cope with a drop in demand, so they're a bunch of people sitting around with their thumbs up their ass with not even a job that they can do.
Yes. I said Sport Utility Wagon aka SUW or better thought of as a Station Wagon with a lift kit
Yes, it is very close to JIT. This is made possible because MINI's are selling like hotcakes and dealers CAN'T keep them on the lot! (I live down the street - they can hardly keep demonstrators on the lot) GM & Ford would love to be in this position- except for the small problem that people don't want to buy Buicks, so they've a nice inventory built up (sales being nonuniform throughout the year, and factories like to be run at constant output).
UAW rules are incredibly screwy (I've heard similar stories). It's still a lot harder to hire & fire someone in Germany.
The first Sport Utility Wagon was not a Subraru Outback, oh no - it was the AMC Eagle (AMC later being purchase by Chrysler). http://www.users.nac.net/gr/eagleweb/ Subaru's claim has always bugged the hell out of me.
Also seen companies that claim they own the frequent-flier miles that employees accumulate, since they paid for the tickets.
The Federal Government is a small, little, company with this policy.
It basically is an example of a low-cost commercial launch system company going under as a result having to compete with NASA.
It's not having to compete with NASA that drives them under. It's having to compete with NASA, DOD, and the army of fortune 500 contractors who manufacture the stuff (LockMart, Boeing, UTC, Morton Thiokol....) That's a force unstoppable in the world today.
Quite easily - in a cable tension is along the longitudinal axis of the cable, whether or not it's resting on anything has little to do with the longitudinal axis.
More importantly - your silvering (or whatever) would have to survive the high (a couple thousand K) tempteratures produced from air resistance. This in and of itself would be difficult.
The common trick you have for lasers is having a wide beam diameter initially(in this case at aircraft) - and then having a lens focus the beam on the target. This allows you to have lower power densities at the lens train, and higher power densities where you want it, on the target.
"the ABL's tactic is to heat the fuel tanks of the missile, exploding it from inside."
The tactic is actually to ablate away the missile's casing over the fuel, leading to a weakened casing - which then in Solid fuel rockets leads to uneven propellant burn (which is what happened to the shuttle challenger)
BS.
Many merchants offer free shipping for purchases over $100. Now here in California we pay 8.5% sales tax - with no charge for shipping, your saving actual money (defined as a lunch out).
The problem with the "higher service" explanation is you have to pay sales tax on any item purchased from a store that has a presence in the state - and nowadays most retail presences are different from the mail order side. So when you live in New York State (say Buffalo) and order something from REI.com, the order is taken in Seattle, it's shipped from Seattle - and it never comes within 500 miles of the only REI in New York State. But you still have to pay New York State sales tax - even though the resource use by you is essentially the same as any other remote vendor.
You don't really need the Stealth's paint to make a stealth car. Car & Driver magazine found out several years ago that a Black Car, with no trim & pop up headlamps is practically invisible to radar. (Sorry no link - it's an early 90's issue, and therefore preweb)
I didn't mean to construe special interests as only being businesses. All groups designed to benefit a non-majority of society are special interests, whether they be liberal, conservative, for profit or nonprofit. My point was simply that the absence of government regulation also benefits companies - of course this benefit could be offset by reductions of government protection in other sectors.
"Limit the powers of government and the size of the campaigns will immeditally shrink."
Ideally yes - practically no, because absence of regulation(government interference) tends to specifically benefit interested parties. If you doubt look at how the Reagan deregulation boom, designed to limit government influence, benefitted special interests(which is government influencing policy).
The way to reduce the power of politicians(and thereby their susceptibiility to influence) is not by limiting government power - it's by increasing the transparency of the political process. Major Rule reforms in the Senate(no more anonymous holds, no more unrelated riders) & House would create impediments to the shenaningans that give them power.
If it's the sales staff occupying the building they'd like you to treat *every* call as important as 911.
"Fear is a pretty useless method of motivating staff."
It's not fear. My point is only the carrot is not the sole management tool - as too many managers believe it is. It can work wonders in the right evironment - but fail miserably in others. It's particularly ineffective at motivating staff to follow small, niggling details like cleanroom policy or security policy. I've talked to experts on this(at research labs, semiconductor firms & telcom), believe me, and worked on implementing them myself - the only way to receive full compliance (and this is true even at Intel) was with a stick - like pay docking, or demerits.
Furthermore. I'll bet your from a "new" industry. Not all companies can grow quickly, nor are all industries staffed with transient workers who "know" their value. Many industries (healthcare, however, is fast leaving this group) are staffed by persons who just want to collect a paycheck - and they're paid so lowly there's little chance of them being headhunted away, and have little motivation to find a new job(and depending on the region there may not be a new job). For these employees incentives, while it would be wonderful if they did work, rarely do.
My talk wasn't meant to be "macho", more realistic - you'll never, ever receive 100% compliance with any policy that only rewards employees for doing their job - but if you graft a policy of rewards for top performers, and penalties for the bottom you can come near these numbers.