These things only go the last part of the journey, and only with small, lightweight objects (about 5lbs or so). You're still going to need a massive delivery fleet to move everything to local warehouses from other states or countries
If you ask me, interstate trucking will be automated before doorstop delivery will. Think about it, freeway driving is pretty easy.
It sounds to me like this contact-free coupling actually is basically like an electric motor - except stationary:
Prototype number two is designed to be used at room temperature. In this case, the magnetic reducer sees the gear teeth replaced with permanent magnets that repel and attract each other so that "the transmission of couples and forces between the moving parts with contact is achieved."
This is what an electric motor does, except some mechanism (such as brushes) enables and disables the magnets in phase, such that the armiture is always magnetically attracted forwards, in the desired direction of rotation.
Capitalism is not a social system - it's an economic system. I.e. It is about making and trading THINGS.
There is no sharp distinction. The very concept of "owning" things is simply the right to tell other people what they can and cannot do - don't take that thing away from here, don't walk on this plot of land, go make me a sandwich. Therefore Capitalism is essentially a system for determining who is in charge and gets to make decisions. To imagine this has no social implications is not correct.
My guess is he had previously used a monitor on his computer, but now connected it to the TV. Most TVs do induce some delay by default, but may have a "game mode" to disable the signal processing that causes the delay.
The summary is misleading anyways. Greenwald does dismiss the possibility of true reform from US legislation anytime soon. But he says:
Those limitations are going to come from-are now coming from very different places:
1. Individuals refusing to use internet services that compromise their privacy.
In that section, it does say: "Instead, these changes are taking place because these companies are petrified that the perception of their collaboration with the NSA will harm their future profits, " from which the entire summary is evidently gleaned.
But he continues with a section on each of the following:
2. Other countries taking action against U.S. hegemony over the internet
3. U.S. court proceedings. A U.S. federal judge already ruled that the NSA's domestic bulk collection program likely violates the 4th Amendment...
4. Greater individual demand for, and use of, encryption
Obviously I left out a lot. But IMHO the summary is a big misrepresentation of the overall article.
I also don't see the article that representative government is a "lost cause," only that as things stand, America is a long, long way from getting meaningful reform out of today's Congress. (Hard to argue otherwise, is it not? Congress now legislates almost not at all. They don't even confirm Federal judges. )
Alternately, these might be Wal-Mart employees who've figured out how earn more than $15/hr by taking a cut of the fake savings, without appearing overtly guilty. At least, you for one are eager to assume they're too dumb to be guilty, which is probably true of their bosses also.
...leaving free fall gravity, finding another, landing on it, and taking off again to come back, all w/ people on board? That is a HECK of a lot harder.
I didn't say it wasn't - exploration is a succession of progressively more challenging objectives, and what the US accomplished in 1969 was certainly more advanced than what the USSR accomplished in 1957.
Picking one point in a never-ending evolution and calling the leader at that point "the winner (of all time)" is inherently rather false. But if you're going to do that, my argument is that putting the first object into orbit (or the first man in orbit - also USSR) compete very well as most significant firsts. At least, simply mentioning only the moon as if it's the only first that really counts strikes me as a bit silly.
Defining The Race as walking on the moon in the first place is also a construct that conveniently places us in first. The more significant "first" was not a person walking on the moon, but getting into orbit at all - a race, obviously, in which we finished second. The reason I say this is because we rely on satellites every day for many things (communications, GPS, weather forecasting, spying, hubble) whereas humans in space has no real applications for the foreseeable future. So, if we "won the space race," it is only due to anthropocentrism.
Minecraft allows people to run their own servers, for free, and is doing awfully well.
Online-membership-only is killing gaming for me. I'm not paying $120/year, forever, to link up my XBox 360s to play with my son sitting across the room. (I scrounge for games that support system link, but there are hardly any.) Nor am I going to watch a bunch of commercials before every game (mobile gaming). The deal is, I pay money for a game, which I can then play as much as I like. Take it or leave it. They're leaving it.
Truffles, saffron, vanilla, good cheeses etc. all of which are very expensive comparatively.
In fact, very few people (globally) have the privilege of eating actual vanilla!
The aggregate global demand for real vanilla is estimated at 2,000 MTs per year, primarily for high-quality vanilla flavoring. Between 1965 and 1989, world consumption grew at an average annual rate of 2 percent. Between 1980 and 1989, demand expanded rapidly particularly in the United States, where it grew at 7 percent a year in volume. In Europe, the rate of consumption was more modest: 2-3 percent. Highest consumption per capita is found in Denmark (4.57 grams), the United States (3.85 grams), France (2.54 grams), and Canada (1.00 grams). Synthetic vanillin accounts for more than 90 percent of the U.S. vanilla flavoring market and about 50 percent of the French market (the lowest national share). One ounce of artificially produced vanillin has roughly the same flavoring power as a gallon of natural vanilla extract. Synthetic vanillin costs one-hundredth the price of the natural product and not only substitutes for vanilla but also supplements adulterated vanilla extracts.
I don't eat many store-bought baked goods because my wife and daughters like to cook and home-made tastes so much better! But you can't help but notice some of the ingredients cost real money. It costs a fortune to buy commercially-made equivalents with real vanilla and real butter and so on, and you never know when they will start cheating on you.
If you haven't seen the documentary Last Train Home about the struggles of being a seasonal worker in China and getting home to visit your family once a year, I highly recommend it. For anybody who thought the overcrowded dystopian future feared in the 1970's failed to occur, China is one place where it already did.
Ha ha, welcome to America, land of the Free, where your actions and movements are never tracked. Laughable.
Just 20 years ago, I honestly believed that if we started to get security cameras everywhere like Great Britain was doing, they would just get shot out all the time. I actually thought that.
Not when it comes to CO2 - we've only just begun to even try. Our per-capita CO2 emissions are sky-high compared to Europe and China. We're still in the "smoke em if you've got em" club along with Canada, Australia, and a bunch of little oil-rich nations. (cite)
"Peer review is broken" is such a broad statement, it's like claiming "clothes today aren't well-made." Peer-review is as good or bad as the individual journal.
Granted, the average quality of "journals" has probably plummeted in recent decades as there are far more PhDs, papers, and journals than in the past. But by the same token, the quality of the top 100 journals (or any fixed number) has probably increased. I say that because the ease of communications now helps, and because of all the progress and recent focus on repeatability and avoiding statistical pitfalls. (A lot of reporting on this implies it is somehow a new problem, but there is no reason to think that).
If you want to see some of the most corrupt businesses alive today, look no further than utilities. This is nothing more than a front, primarily to stop the debate about Government intrusion but also to squeeze more money from the middle class.
What utilities are you referring to? My sewers, water, electricity, and gas all keep flowing, and at reasonable rates. I certainly would not want them transformed into Comcast-esque money-grubbers. Privatization in the absence of competition is the worst of both worlds, and that's what broadband to my home currently is.
With respect to government intrusion, assuming you buy the line that it's any different from, or even separate from, corporate intrusion (which I don't, since companies simply sell it to the govt) - the US Mail has the strongest legal guarantees of privacy, as far as I can tell, with phone being next. It seems to be in decreasing order of when invented, rather than public/private. At least with a utility there's a possibility of meaningful privacy regulations, if the public ever decides to start wanting them.
Nations don't fall because of (un) diplomatic gestures. They fall because they are conquered, or go bankrupt. The Soviet Union fell because of its bad economy. However, the USSR did not increase military spending in response to the US buildup. There was never any reason to think they did, other that it was a nice story.
The USSR's 9-year Afghanistan misadventure, on the other hand, was extremely costly (look at the above graph from '79 to '89). US support for the Mujahideen surely increased that pain. But the American president who started backing them was, in fact, Jimmy Carter.
Reagan vilifying the Soviet Union is totally irrelevant to Obama and the NSA. People everywhere love smack talk about faraway enemies, it always plays well. A better Reagan analogy would be the Iran-Contra scandal.
Now as to Obama, he did order Gitmo shut down. What happened? Congress rebelled, even Democrats, spinning up fear of Magneto-like supervillians too dastardly to contain in American prisons. Congress passed a law making it illegal to bring Gitmo prisoners to the US even for medical treatment, so now we spend millions flying medical equipment down there to rot.
I suppose a more forceful President might be able to prevail on the Congress more often, Teddy Roosevelt-style, and do something about the NSA, if they had some reason to do so, which they don't. It's hardly ever a voting issue. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was used by both Democratic and Republican administrations to trample the Constitution for decades and voters never cared, because they were so scared of Communism they supported the purge. Now the roles are filled by a new cast of characters, but little has changed.
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If you ask me, interstate trucking will be automated before doorstop delivery will. Think about it, freeway driving is pretty easy.
This is what an electric motor does, except some mechanism (such as brushes) enables and disables the magnets in phase, such that the armiture is always magnetically attracted forwards, in the desired direction of rotation.
There is no sharp distinction. The very concept of "owning" things is simply the right to tell other people what they can and cannot do - don't take that thing away from here, don't walk on this plot of land, go make me a sandwich. Therefore Capitalism is essentially a system for determining who is in charge and gets to make decisions. To imagine this has no social implications is not correct.
My guess is he had previously used a monitor on his computer, but now connected it to the TV. Most TVs do induce some delay by default, but may have a "game mode" to disable the signal processing that causes the delay.
What changed everything was the ability to operate beyond visual range - that was really limiting.
How so? In America, Net Neutrality is regarded as a communist plot!
Thank god for China or you couldn't even buy a Inflatable Disney Princess Punching Bag any more!
In that section, it does say: "Instead, these changes are taking place because these companies are petrified that the perception of their collaboration with the NSA will harm their future profits, " from which the entire summary is evidently gleaned.
But he continues with a section on each of the following:
Obviously I left out a lot. But IMHO the summary is a big misrepresentation of the overall article.
I also don't see the article that representative government is a "lost cause," only that as things stand, America is a long, long way from getting meaningful reform out of today's Congress. (Hard to argue otherwise, is it not? Congress now legislates almost not at all. They don't even confirm Federal judges. )
Alternately, these might be Wal-Mart employees who've figured out how earn more than $15/hr by taking a cut of the fake savings, without appearing overtly guilty. At least, you for one are eager to assume they're too dumb to be guilty, which is probably true of their bosses also.
This is basically just price-tag switching. In the olden days of stick-on price tags it wasn't considered terribly clever to do this!
I didn't say it wasn't - exploration is a succession of progressively more challenging objectives, and what the US accomplished in 1969 was certainly more advanced than what the USSR accomplished in 1957.
Picking one point in a never-ending evolution and calling the leader at that point "the winner (of all time)" is inherently rather false. But if you're going to do that, my argument is that putting the first object into orbit (or the first man in orbit - also USSR) compete very well as most significant firsts. At least, simply mentioning only the moon as if it's the only first that really counts strikes me as a bit silly.
Defining The Race as walking on the moon in the first place is also a construct that conveniently places us in first. The more significant "first" was not a person walking on the moon, but getting into orbit at all - a race, obviously, in which we finished second. The reason I say this is because we rely on satellites every day for many things (communications, GPS, weather forecasting, spying, hubble) whereas humans in space has no real applications for the foreseeable future. So, if we "won the space race," it is only due to anthropocentrism.
Online-membership-only is killing gaming for me. I'm not paying $120/year, forever, to link up my XBox 360s to play with my son sitting across the room. (I scrounge for games that support system link, but there are hardly any.) Nor am I going to watch a bunch of commercials before every game (mobile gaming). The deal is, I pay money for a game, which I can then play as much as I like. Take it or leave it. They're leaving it.
That's where we get it too!
In fact, very few people (globally) have the privilege of eating actual vanilla!
I don't eat many store-bought baked goods because my wife and daughters like to cook and home-made tastes so much better! But you can't help but notice some of the ingredients cost real money. It costs a fortune to buy commercially-made equivalents with real vanilla and real butter and so on, and you never know when they will start cheating on you.
Taking your time in handing out a highly questionable tax break is pretty far from what blatant censorship actually looks like.
Also, bundles of cubesats launched in a P-POD.
If you haven't seen the documentary Last Train Home about the struggles of being a seasonal worker in China and getting home to visit your family once a year, I highly recommend it. For anybody who thought the overcrowded dystopian future feared in the 1970's failed to occur, China is one place where it already did.
Just 20 years ago, I honestly believed that if we started to get security cameras everywhere like Great Britain was doing, they would just get shot out all the time. I actually thought that.
Not when it comes to CO2 - we've only just begun to even try. Our per-capita CO2 emissions are sky-high compared to Europe and China. We're still in the "smoke em if you've got em" club along with Canada, Australia, and a bunch of little oil-rich nations. (cite)
Granted, the average quality of "journals" has probably plummeted in recent decades as there are far more PhDs, papers, and journals than in the past. But by the same token, the quality of the top 100 journals (or any fixed number) has probably increased. I say that because the ease of communications now helps, and because of all the progress and recent focus on repeatability and avoiding statistical pitfalls. (A lot of reporting on this implies it is somehow a new problem, but there is no reason to think that).
Please do not advocate linking to some crappy ad-supported mainstream press summary, or somebody's blog, over Science.
What utilities are you referring to? My sewers, water, electricity, and gas all keep flowing, and at reasonable rates. I certainly would not want them transformed into Comcast-esque money-grubbers. Privatization in the absence of competition is the worst of both worlds, and that's what broadband to my home currently is.
With respect to government intrusion, assuming you buy the line that it's any different from, or even separate from, corporate intrusion (which I don't, since companies simply sell it to the govt) - the US Mail has the strongest legal guarantees of privacy, as far as I can tell, with phone being next. It seems to be in decreasing order of when invented, rather than public/private. At least with a utility there's a possibility of meaningful privacy regulations, if the public ever decides to start wanting them.
The USSR's 9-year Afghanistan misadventure, on the other hand, was extremely costly (look at the above graph from '79 to '89). US support for the Mujahideen surely increased that pain. But the American president who started backing them was, in fact, Jimmy Carter.
Now as to Obama, he did order Gitmo shut down. What happened? Congress rebelled, even Democrats, spinning up fear of Magneto-like supervillians too dastardly to contain in American prisons. Congress passed a law making it illegal to bring Gitmo prisoners to the US even for medical treatment, so now we spend millions flying medical equipment down there to rot.
I suppose a more forceful President might be able to prevail on the Congress more often, Teddy Roosevelt-style, and do something about the NSA, if they had some reason to do so, which they don't. It's hardly ever a voting issue. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was used by both Democratic and Republican administrations to trample the Constitution for decades and voters never cared, because they were so scared of Communism they supported the purge. Now the roles are filled by a new cast of characters, but little has changed.