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My initial thought was that solar wind / radiation pressure would act to move the earth to a more distant orbit by direct force, rather than by reducing the gravitational pull of the sun through mass loss. I'm too lazy to do the calculation, but an internet search led to a suggestion of 4000 km per 1e9 years for radiation pressure alone (i.e. not much). Have you included solar wind / radiation pressure in your calculations?
In the United States over the last 50 years inflation has been more than double (on a yearly basis) the return from a savings account. In a billion years your six dollars will be worthless.
carry 7 passengers + 40 cu FT of cargo all the time
So your alternative is what? Buy a big car for when I have to carry a lot of people/stuff, and also buy a small car for the rest of the time? That's a huge amount of money put into declining assets. Or perhaps you think I should drive to the nearest rental agency (20 miles) every time I need to use a bigger vehicle.
At atmospheric pressure, it's not easy to get enough CO2 for it to be life-threatening. When I worked for Harman Electronics, I occasionally had to test amplifiers below 0 degrees F. Our only cold chamber used the expansion of highly pressurized CO2 (liquid?) for cooling (because the CO2 models are by far the cheapest.) The chamber vented directly into the room, and caused eye pain because the CO2 reacted with tears to form carbonic acid. But I noticed no bad health effect.
The point is that FDR wanted power as all socialists do. He was blind to Stalin's flaws because he did not view Stalin's characteristics as flaws.
Joseph McCarthy got the anticommunist reputation he's remembered for in the 1950s. By that time he presumably had seen that his 1936 views were at least partly in error.
Die! DIE! The word is die. Not pass, like a test or a motorcar. Not "in a better place". Not "with the angels." Not "sleeps with the fish." Stop avoiding the issue. When someone stops living, he dies.
The Roman empire collapsed for a variety of reasons, among which were corruption and a political-economic system that depended upon expansion from medium to large (and couldn't continue when it got large). Although it nominally collapsed from outside pressure, it was already rotten to the core and did fall on its own.
The British Empire did demonstrably fall on its own, without ever really being defeated.
The Russian empire fell twice in the 20th century mostly from internal problems.
The Japanese empire fell from external military action
The "empire" of the United States is in the process of collapsing from internal corruption, entirely its own fault. How's that "hope and change" working out for you?
First problem: some fields of study require hands-on experience under a trained eye, such as surgery.
Second problem: An online university is much too generic. Many, many successful educational institutions will fail in the attempt to become online only.
Third problem: Verification: prove that you took that test, that only one person watched that pay-per-view lecture.
Fourth problem: need for a research library.
There are already online universities, and while a changeover to a mostly online model will probably be a great boon, it will also be a great upheaval causing big losses to those now in the education system.
Advantage: it will be more difficult to indoctrinate students.
civil war scholar whose primary focus and specialty was debunking the myth of black confederates
That phrase demonstrates that the scholar was biased and successfully passed on his bias. The unbiased version would be "civil war scholar whose primary focus and specialty was investigating the hypothesis of black confederates."
For as long as we have reliable history (about 2500 years in the West) it has not been common for rebels to be extirpated. Kill off troops and rebel leaders, sure, but what's the point of wiping out a largely indifferent populace? Subject states (common in Greece, for instance) could provide no tribute if they were all dead.
That's what they believed, but it's not true. Free workers have been repeatedly shown to be more productive than slaves. Slaves, particularly field workers, had no incentive to be any more productive than needed to avoid punishment.
No model is without problems inherent in its design. If each of the now united states were separate countries, there would be a myriad of problems and inefficiencies that would leave the area much poorer than it is now. If there were no powers reserved to the states, the US would have turned to tyranny in 1932 or earlier, instead of 2008.
The Depression of the 1930s would not have been the "Great Depression" without FDR, although Hoover certainly contributed. Although party is a fair indicator, it's governing philosophy that has the most effect, and both Hoover and FDR were "progressives".
To some extent, a history written by people alive when the history happened suffers from being politicized and too anecdotal. The historian can't see the forest for the trees. As time goes by, more data becomes available, including memoirs of critical players. These assets make it possible for later historians to do a better job.
No serious knowledgeable person blames Obama for the 2007 financial meltdown, but the blame does properly go to Democrats, particularly Barney Frank, who vociferously prevented reform of the federal lending agencies. Bush stupidly made it worse, and Obama has been busy deliberately making it much worse.
By your post, you have identified yourself as a technocrat, someone who believes that small-scale "experts", devoid of an overall philosophy, are all that are needed to run a government.
The Fed is a ruse to make people believe that the monetary policy disasters of the government aren't the government's fault. There was no need for the Fed when it was created, and things have gotten worse since then.
The FCC's proper function is to register frequency allocations and correct violations thereof. It is presently acting as a censor, a court, and an agent of political pressure for whomever is in power. Not good.
The FAA's functions should be entirely private.
The FDA is competing with Obamacare as the most hideous danger to health in this country. It's only possible valid function is to regulate the purity of foods and drugs and the accuracy of labels. It is acting as an armed police force, a medicine Czar, a scourge to the food supplement industry, and a protector of defective medicines, among other abuses.
There is absolutely no valid reason for the existence of the FTC.
A smarter, more competent, more efficient Stasi is not what we need, but that is what you are advocating.
Historically, the value of gold is far more stable than paper money, particularly over the long term. Gold's value tends to vary about a mean that changes very slowly, whereas paper money is a monotonic and sometimes disastrous decline. To have hyperinflation with a gold currency, the world would already have to be in a "Mad Max" condition, at which time considerations of inflation would be irrelevant.
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My initial thought was that solar wind / radiation pressure would act to move the earth to a more distant orbit by direct force, rather than by reducing the gravitational pull of the sun through mass loss. I'm too lazy to do the calculation, but an internet search led to a suggestion of 4000 km per 1e9 years for radiation pressure alone (i.e. not much). Have you included solar wind / radiation pressure in your calculations?
In the United States over the last 50 years inflation has been more than double (on a yearly basis) the return from a savings account. In a billion years your six dollars will be worthless.
So your alternative is what? Buy a big car for when I have to carry a lot of people/stuff, and also buy a small car for the rest of the time? That's a huge amount of money put into declining assets. Or perhaps you think I should drive to the nearest rental agency (20 miles) every time I need to use a bigger vehicle.
At atmospheric pressure, it's not easy to get enough CO2 for it to be life-threatening. When I worked for Harman Electronics, I occasionally had to test amplifiers below 0 degrees F. Our only cold chamber used the expansion of highly pressurized CO2 (liquid?) for cooling (because the CO2 models are by far the cheapest.) The chamber vented directly into the room, and caused eye pain because the CO2 reacted with tears to form carbonic acid. But I noticed no bad health effect.
Actually, IQs aren't exactly gaussian, both the low and high ends are slightly overrepresented compared to a gaussian.
The point is that FDR wanted power as all socialists do. He was blind to Stalin's flaws because he did not view Stalin's characteristics as flaws.
Joseph McCarthy got the anticommunist reputation he's remembered for in the 1950s. By that time he presumably had seen that his 1936 views were at least partly in error.
Die! DIE! The word is die . Not pass, like a test or a motorcar. Not "in a better place". Not "with the angels." Not "sleeps with the fish." Stop avoiding the issue. When someone stops living, he dies.
Frogs are giving tests to baboons.
Indians are human beings too. Is your objection to hiring foreigners racist or nationalist? Not that it matters.
The Roman empire collapsed for a variety of reasons, among which were corruption and a political-economic system that depended upon expansion from medium to large (and couldn't continue when it got large). Although it nominally collapsed from outside pressure, it was already rotten to the core and did fall on its own.
The British Empire did demonstrably fall on its own, without ever really being defeated.
The Russian empire fell twice in the 20th century mostly from internal problems.
The Japanese empire fell from external military action
The "empire" of the United States is in the process of collapsing from internal corruption, entirely its own fault. How's that "hope and change" working out for you?
First problem: some fields of study require hands-on experience under a trained eye, such as surgery.
Second problem: An online university is much too generic. Many, many successful educational institutions will fail in the attempt to become online only.
Third problem: Verification: prove that you took that test, that only one person watched that pay-per-view lecture.
Fourth problem: need for a research library.
There are already online universities, and while a changeover to a mostly online model will probably be a great boon, it will also be a great upheaval causing big losses to those now in the education system.
Advantage: it will be more difficult to indoctrinate students.
General Motor's EV1 was deliberately designed with a noise generator because it was too quiet.
People fleeing to Mexico or Canada would not necessarily return. Three years is enough to establish roots elsewhere.
That phrase demonstrates that the scholar was biased and successfully passed on his bias. The unbiased version would be "civil war scholar whose primary focus and specialty was investigating the hypothesis of black confederates."
For as long as we have reliable history (about 2500 years in the West) it has not been common for rebels to be extirpated. Kill off troops and rebel leaders, sure, but what's the point of wiping out a largely indifferent populace? Subject states (common in Greece, for instance) could provide no tribute if they were all dead.
That's what they believed, but it's not true. Free workers have been repeatedly shown to be more productive than slaves. Slaves, particularly field workers, had no incentive to be any more productive than needed to avoid punishment.
No model is without problems inherent in its design. If each of the now united states were separate countries, there would be a myriad of problems and inefficiencies that would leave the area much poorer than it is now. If there were no powers reserved to the states, the US would have turned to tyranny in 1932 or earlier, instead of 2008.
The Depression of the 1930s would not have been the "Great Depression" without FDR, although Hoover certainly contributed. Although party is a fair indicator, it's governing philosophy that has the most effect, and both Hoover and FDR were "progressives".
To some extent, a history written by people alive when the history happened suffers from being politicized and too anecdotal. The historian can't see the forest for the trees. As time goes by, more data becomes available, including memoirs of critical players. These assets make it possible for later historians to do a better job.
No serious knowledgeable person blames Obama for the 2007 financial meltdown, but the blame does properly go to Democrats, particularly Barney Frank, who vociferously prevented reform of the federal lending agencies. Bush stupidly made it worse, and Obama has been busy deliberately making it much worse.
The aggressor is the side first to fire a shot. The South firing on Fort Sumter is that first shot.
Lee was in Pennsylvania (June 1863) long before Sherman was in Georgia (November 1864).
This is how liberty dies.
Thanks. It's really nice when someone looks at the big picture. I've spent too much time looking at the minutia of the fraud that is religion.
Nice straw man.
There are at least 2 contradictions in that clause. Proof is left to the reader.
By your post, you have identified yourself as a technocrat, someone who believes that small-scale "experts", devoid of an overall philosophy, are all that are needed to run a government.
The Fed is a ruse to make people believe that the monetary policy disasters of the government aren't the government's fault. There was no need for the Fed when it was created, and things have gotten worse since then.
The FCC's proper function is to register frequency allocations and correct violations thereof. It is presently acting as a censor, a court, and an agent of political pressure for whomever is in power. Not good.
The FAA's functions should be entirely private.
The FDA is competing with Obamacare as the most hideous danger to health in this country. It's only possible valid function is to regulate the purity of foods and drugs and the accuracy of labels. It is acting as an armed police force, a medicine Czar, a scourge to the food supplement industry, and a protector of defective medicines, among other abuses.
There is absolutely no valid reason for the existence of the FTC.
A smarter, more competent, more efficient Stasi is not what we need, but that is what you are advocating.
As opposed to the current state of affairs? Take off your government-school issued blinders.
Historically, the value of gold is far more stable than paper money, particularly over the long term. Gold's value tends to vary about a mean that changes very slowly, whereas paper money is a monotonic and sometimes disastrous decline. To have hyperinflation with a gold currency, the world would already have to be in a "Mad Max" condition, at which time considerations of inflation would be irrelevant.