Expatriate ripoff. The kids are living in the US receiving your mail including online bargain sales, or vice versa. With periodic pickups from travellers either way, state use/sales are a form of extortion, ripping off out of state residents. The "commercial license" or "refund application" bs just doesn't work. Guess we should buy direct from China or India, skip the middle (tax)man.
About 20 years ago a 747 had a minor fatigue crack on an engine pylon pin. Boeing had already had engines fall off in flight, had redesigned the pins. The solid metal pins are 2-3 inches in diameter.
This time, an international airline that I had flown on previously, dropped a 747 engine near my house! 747 engines are big, it left a shallow, burnt crater. Somewhere around the house I've got a picture. I sure hope the managers for the 380 watch this carefully, not pulling the same management economizing stunts as BP or Tepco.
Bad neighborhods? Like small towns and cities where the police are revenue hungry extortionists, and a greater constant threat than the average door shaker.
It's national bankruptcy and high cost teachers that are going to reduce actual 3rd party instruction capacity. Free E-books broaden reference capability outside of being in a good library. I wouldn't say Ebooks are a desirable substitute for books yet. Some distance learning (video) courses are outstanding instruction modules, like AP Physics through Kentucky Educational TV. The future educated person may well be someone who has the interest to learn independently or had the parents interested enough to teach them. The rest may be knuckleheads mostly programmed by internet (TV+) entertainment. Oh.
It's easy to see that in the future, many books will not have much physical print volume. So 26 copies means a few years and *poof*. In 20, 30, 50 years, much less 100 years, with closures and government changes, who will still have viable copies for the public domain?
My suggestion - 15 - 25 lends per year, ad infinituum until book becomes public domain.
More post industrial hot air. Insurance typically sucks in 2-4x the actual loss claims paid (then think of precious high interest rate capital for years ahead), not a source of competitive growth or information, and will stifle the growth of new competitive edges. The US is toast, an economy running on empty promises and bs.
Often obtrusive "security" conflicts with the prime mission of the organization, sapping morale, efficiency and innovation. e.g. TSA. Good unobtrusive security is a rare jewel.
Corruption has been being rewarded. Robbed of billions and trillions, many equivalent lifetimes, have we seen anyone proportionately punished? Long wait.
Killed whole virus means whole virus if mistakes are made. I had a co-worker who spent several weeks in the hospital several decades ago that got shot with a still "hot" vaccine. Oops.
Wikipedia has become a springboard for groups with huge financial interests like (new, dangerous and less effective) patent medicines, seize the means academic alarmists on the make, and NGOs seeking to become big players with salable influence or direct power.
Yeah, the ones that deny "Piltdown" Mann is a utter fraud. The ones that deny the USA got hotter in 1934 (we saw them have to fudge the numbers TWICE to dethrone 1934 for 1998).
By 2019 they will be saying "never mind about what we said about the hot weather, just get your mittens and coats ready when solar magnetic decline and solar minimum freeze (y)our (r)ears off in 2020".
Another old computer rule, Garbage In, Garbage Out. Penn State buggers the data, and forgets to finish the whole energy equation with unmodeled terms, like non-radiant solar energy. We are more likely to experience unusual temperature declines across the next 30 years according to more predictive OLD models.
Hopefully Bill doesn't cut too many corners and stays out of the flood zones. Maybe he can find a good sized city in western China with lots of desert around.
Bisphosphonates maintain bones' density but not living bone tissue and structural integrity. Look up "fossy jaw". It's like comparing a chalk deposit to a living coral reef.
SOPA censorship is a fascist attack, and internet damage. It won't be too long before most of the world simply routes around the USA as an irreparably damaged internet zone in a "Running Man" type police state. Kaspersky Lab is just being an attention ho' for free advertising, belatedly distancing itself from the obvious mafiaa types.
Still a few quality control problems. Perhaps Mr. Putin should focus on things that will help grow Russia's future rather than its war machine and faded empire. Besides, it's China that is more likely to take Siberia away from them.
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Expatriate ripoff. The kids are living in the US receiving your mail including online bargain sales, or vice versa. With periodic pickups from travellers either way, state use/sales are a form of extortion, ripping off out of state residents. The "commercial license" or "refund application" bs just doesn't work. Guess we should buy direct from China or India, skip the middle (tax)man.
Taxes are a price we pay to distort and destroy civilization, sort of like bashing the pinata.
In the coming Dark Age of lost or purged copyrighted history as libraries physically wink out, Slovakia may preserve more of its history.
About 20 years ago a 747 had a minor fatigue crack on an engine pylon pin. Boeing had already had engines fall off in flight, had redesigned the pins. The solid metal pins are 2-3 inches in diameter.
This time, an international airline that I had flown on previously, dropped a 747 engine near my house! 747 engines are big, it left a shallow, burnt crater. Somewhere around the house I've got a picture. I sure hope the managers for the 380 watch this carefully, not pulling the same management economizing stunts as BP or Tepco.
Bad neighborhods? Like small towns and cities where the police are revenue hungry extortionists, and a greater constant threat than the average door shaker.
Imported LNG, wind/wave, and space based power. Nice choices.
The mistakes were management cutting corners. The "engineering mistakes" were elementary ones that could have only come from greedy bean counters.
Spain should pack a 25 kg box of patties from the running of the bulls, send 'em FedEx.
This melt off should be an interesting opportunity for archaeology and paleontology. Will such treasures reach back 1000, 5000, 40,000 years?
It's national bankruptcy and high cost teachers that are going to reduce actual 3rd party instruction capacity. Free E-books broaden reference capability outside of being in a good library. I wouldn't say Ebooks are a desirable substitute for books yet. Some distance learning (video) courses are outstanding instruction modules, like AP Physics through Kentucky Educational TV. The future educated person may well be someone who has the interest to learn independently or had the parents interested enough to teach them. The rest may be knuckleheads mostly programmed by internet (TV+) entertainment. Oh.
It's easy to see that in the future, many books will not have much physical print volume. So 26 copies means a few years and *poof*. In 20, 30, 50 years, much less 100 years, with closures and government changes, who will still have viable copies for the public domain? My suggestion - 15 - 25 lends per year, ad infinituum until book becomes public domain.
More post industrial hot air. Insurance typically sucks in 2-4x the actual loss claims paid (then think of precious high interest rate capital for years ahead), not a source of competitive growth or information, and will stifle the growth of new competitive edges. The US is toast, an economy running on empty promises and bs.
Often obtrusive "security" conflicts with the prime mission of the organization, sapping morale, efficiency and innovation. e.g. TSA. Good unobtrusive security is a rare jewel.
Corruption has been being rewarded. Robbed of billions and trillions, many equivalent lifetimes, have we seen anyone proportionately punished? Long wait.
Killed whole virus means whole virus if mistakes are made. I had a co-worker who spent several weeks in the hospital several decades ago that got shot with a still "hot" vaccine. Oops.
Website blocking is pernicious, whether by country or -IAA. Somehow, 3rd world countries just keep looking better and better.
Wikipedia has become a springboard for groups with huge financial interests like (new, dangerous and less effective) patent medicines, seize the means academic alarmists on the make, and NGOs seeking to become big players with salable influence or direct power.
Yeah, the ones that deny "Piltdown" Mann is a utter fraud. The ones that deny the USA got hotter in 1934 (we saw them have to fudge the numbers TWICE to dethrone 1934 for 1998).
By 2019 they will be saying "never mind about what we said about the hot weather, just get your mittens and coats ready when solar magnetic decline and solar minimum freeze (y)our (r)ears off in 2020".
Another old computer rule, Garbage In, Garbage Out. Penn State buggers the data, and forgets to finish the whole energy equation with unmodeled terms, like non-radiant solar energy. We are more likely to experience unusual temperature declines across the next 30 years according to more predictive OLD models.
Older Americans know what previous art patent medicine Prometheus' management and counselors missed: Col. Colt's Lead Therapy.
Hopefully Bill doesn't cut too many corners and stays out of the flood zones. Maybe he can find a good sized city in western China with lots of desert around.
Bisphosphonates maintain bones' density but not living bone tissue and structural integrity. Look up "fossy jaw". It's like comparing a chalk deposit to a living coral reef.
SOPA censorship is a fascist attack, and internet damage. It won't be too long before most of the world simply routes around the USA as an irreparably damaged internet zone in a "Running Man" type police state. Kaspersky Lab is just being an attention ho' for free advertising, belatedly distancing itself from the obvious mafiaa types.
Still a few quality control problems. Perhaps Mr. Putin should focus on things that will help grow Russia's future rather than its war machine and faded empire. Besides, it's China that is more likely to take Siberia away from them.