The problem is that there are now two varieties of government: bad government and extremely bad government. I want good government, and "no government" is not a viable option.
I don't see how "sexual orientation" or "marital status" are important questions
Sexual orientation: pedophile. After you've spent a year investing in the training of your new employee, he goes to jail for a decade.
Marital status: marriage can be either a plus or a minus for an employee, depending upon the job. Potential pregnancy is a problem in some cases. You probably don't want someone who's married if the job requires separation from the spouse for 6 months at a time. If you're looking for someone to be a stable, reliable performer for 20 years or more, you'd like a person who's married, with small children and a big mortgage.
our unique tax system that lets multi-billion-dollar companies pay a smaller percentage in taxes than their bottom-line employees
Companies are made up of people. Taxes on companies are inevitably paid by jacking up prices or reducing wages, and competition severely inhibits prices. As a result, the net pay of an employee doesn't change a lot whether the tax is applied to him or to the corporation, either way, he loses due to taxes.
The people I'm angry with are those who consider it acceptable to use government power to restrict the activities of any person or organization that is not actively harming or cheating someone else. Refusing to deal with someone is an individual's absolute right, and those who wish to force me are my enemies.
In recent news, coal-fired electricity plants will soon be shut down, and proposed new plants never opened, due to Obama's onerous restrictions and taxes. The areas served by these plants will be experiencing brownouts and rotating blackouts. Welcome to the new dark ages, courtesy economic ignorance and malice.
I take it you've never worked with an obsessive Christian who's always asking you to pray with him. Or an extremist from either end of the political spectrum who sarcastically criticizes anyone who disagrees with him.
Small businesses are frequently marginal affairs, and it only takes one bad employee to sour the work environment, cause the good people to quit, and destroy the lifetime investment of the owner. It isn't bigotry to be sensitive to the sensibilities of people who already work for you, and reject a newcomer who'd destroy the existing balance. It is bigotry to yell "BIGOT" when an employer can see that someone won't fit in.
-- Just because you have air flowing between your ears doesn't mean you have an open mind.
Tell them you're concerned with identity theft and that you'll provide a SSN at the appropriate time. "I don't reveal confidential company information to anyone outside the company nor anyone inside the company without an immediate need to know, and my SSN is just that sort of information."
Many, perhaps most, medium sized hydroelectric installations fail to use a lot of the energy available to them. The plants are sized to be able to run all year, and when storage is exceeded the excess water runs through a spillway or over the top. Resizing such plants might not be cost-effective, but less power would be wasted, and it would be easier for power companies to maintain than a horde of small plants.
In my opinion, small plants are best for an ambitious streamside property owner as supplemental power and a hobby. And nothing beats the rustic charm of a water wheel.
Nobody came even close to predicting the impact of computers.
Individual science fiction stories predicted most of what computers do today, and many things that computers still can't do. That you don't know of those stories may be due to the obscurity of the stories or that "computers" were called by some other name (for instance, "A Logic Named Joe"). I've read more than one story wherein people were so connected to computers that they were essentially unaware of the real world.
It's not reasonable to expect that predictions will be dead on. One use of what might be called predictions (but should be called warnings) is to prevent bad results, so that the "predicted" future is avoided. Also, when considering what the effect of one innovation might be, it's even more difficult to predict how it will interact with other innovations, particularly if the others don't exist yet.
I looked into this at the 0.35 micron node, and I assume it would apply equally well at smaller dimensions. It is not possible to make a low loss inductor in a conventional semiconductor process, and for the values that would be appropriate (low enough inductance to not degrade performance too much, high enough inductance to allow a substantial portion of supply voltage to appear across the inductor while transistors are switching) a Q of about 1 is all that can be achieved. So, maybe, maybe, a 50% power reduction could be achieved. However, even this little boost introduces problems, as the conductor will see some resonance and there's an added risk of breakdown from voltage stress caused by that resonance. The inductor might not require more area than the gate or flipflop it's associated with, but it would use up (i.e. block) 2 layers of metal, at least, which makes the IC more expensive.
I think the low Q of the inductor is due to the inductor coupling its magnetic field into the substrate or other lossy bits of semiconductor, so the inductor gets better the higher the metal layer is up off the substrate. That also makes layout more expensive (and less dense).
In short, if my evaluation was correct, building in inductors is barely possible, but not practical for most applications.
I'm currently running two 1920x1080 LCDs over/under. It's inconvenient, and this is just home use.
A human can resolve about 7000x4000 without moving his head. I'd really like to see that, and I'd be willing to pay about $1500 for it - if a video card were available.
The aspirin dose used in these tests is 1/4 of a standard tablet a day. That's 1/48th ( 2 per cent ) of the dose used for persistent pain relief. Some people are sensitive to even that small dose, but not many. For most people, there's no tradeoff.
Nice try, liar. What Rush said was (approximately) that anyone spending $1000 a year on contraceptives was a slut. Sounds like a pretty good estimate to me.
I managed to break a touchpad, the mouse port and the keyboard port by wiping a CRT with the back of my hand and then touching the mouse. Without extra serial ports, my computer would have been useless.
Gambling is at best a zero sum game. The fact that we live in a civilization with corporations, houses, cars, and other possessions, voluntary employees, and stockholders strongly suggests that stock investing as a whole is a positive sum game. That there is risk involved does not make it gambling: there's risk involved in leaving your money in a savings account (where "inflation" beats compound interest), the risk is just less at the bank. If you think it's gambling, you aren't doing it properly.
Apple's trailing PEG is 0.145, which is very low. Normally, a trailing PEG of 1 is considered safe, and by that metric Apple should be priced at 4130 (which I don't think is reasonable.) Your $130-$150 range would give Apple a P/E of about 4 and a P/S of about 1, which are values for stagnant companies. If Apple gives strong signs that its growth had ended and profit margins collapsed, those values would become reasonable, but not now.
I'd guess that widespread use of the printing press (and now spell checkers) is at least going to make spelling more stable. Reading even the carefully composed works of Jefferson and Madison from 250 years ago can be irritating due to odd spellings.
Although spelling errors which result in different but correctly spelled words usually can be deciphered, I've seen examples where the misspelling resulted in a sentence with the opposite meaning of the writer's probable intent. Spelling matters (among other reasons) because errors can lead to financial problems if you put the wrong word into a contract.
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The problem is that there are now two varieties of government: bad government and extremely bad government. I want good government, and "no government" is not a viable option.
Sexual orientation: pedophile. After you've spent a year investing in the training of your new employee, he goes to jail for a decade.
Marital status: marriage can be either a plus or a minus for an employee, depending upon the job. Potential pregnancy is a problem in some cases. You probably don't want someone who's married if the job requires separation from the spouse for 6 months at a time. If you're looking for someone to be a stable, reliable performer for 20 years or more, you'd like a person who's married, with small children and a big mortgage.
Companies are made up of people. Taxes on companies are inevitably paid by jacking up prices or reducing wages, and competition severely inhibits prices. As a result, the net pay of an employee doesn't change a lot whether the tax is applied to him or to the corporation, either way, he loses due to taxes.
The people I'm angry with are those who consider it acceptable to use government power to restrict the activities of any person or organization that is not actively harming or cheating someone else. Refusing to deal with someone is an individual's absolute right, and those who wish to force me are my enemies.
In recent news, coal-fired electricity plants will soon be shut down, and proposed new plants never opened, due to Obama's onerous restrictions and taxes. The areas served by these plants will be experiencing brownouts and rotating blackouts. Welcome to the new dark ages, courtesy economic ignorance and malice.
I take it you've never worked with an obsessive Christian who's always asking you to pray with him. Or an extremist from either end of the political spectrum who sarcastically criticizes anyone who disagrees with him.
Small businesses are frequently marginal affairs, and it only takes one bad employee to sour the work environment, cause the good people to quit, and destroy the lifetime investment of the owner. It isn't bigotry to be sensitive to the sensibilities of people who already work for you, and reject a newcomer who'd destroy the existing balance. It is bigotry to yell "BIGOT" when an employer can see that someone won't fit in.
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Just because you have air flowing between your ears doesn't mean you have an open mind.
Tell them you're concerned with identity theft and that you'll provide a SSN at the appropriate time. "I don't reveal confidential company information to anyone outside the company nor anyone inside the company without an immediate need to know, and my SSN is just that sort of information."
Many, perhaps most, medium sized hydroelectric installations fail to use a lot of the energy available to them. The plants are sized to be able to run all year, and when storage is exceeded the excess water runs through a spillway or over the top. Resizing such plants might not be cost-effective, but less power would be wasted, and it would be easier for power companies to maintain than a horde of small plants.
In my opinion, small plants are best for an ambitious streamside property owner as supplemental power and a hobby. And nothing beats the rustic charm of a water wheel.
Surely you jest. I've yet to hear of a truck or pipeline that runs at even one millionth of c.
Individual science fiction stories predicted most of what computers do today, and many things that computers still can't do. That you don't know of those stories may be due to the obscurity of the stories or that "computers" were called by some other name (for instance, "A Logic Named Joe"). I've read more than one story wherein people were so connected to computers that they were essentially unaware of the real world.
It's not reasonable to expect that predictions will be dead on. One use of what might be called predictions (but should be called warnings) is to prevent bad results, so that the "predicted" future is avoided. Also, when considering what the effect of one innovation might be, it's even more difficult to predict how it will interact with other innovations, particularly if the others don't exist yet.
I looked into this at the 0.35 micron node, and I assume it would apply equally well at smaller dimensions. It is not possible to make a low loss inductor in a conventional semiconductor process, and for the values that would be appropriate (low enough inductance to not degrade performance too much, high enough inductance to allow a substantial portion of supply voltage to appear across the inductor while transistors are switching) a Q of about 1 is all that can be achieved. So, maybe, maybe, a 50% power reduction could be achieved. However, even this little boost introduces problems, as the conductor will see some resonance and there's an added risk of breakdown from voltage stress caused by that resonance. The inductor might not require more area than the gate or flipflop it's associated with, but it would use up (i.e. block) 2 layers of metal, at least, which makes the IC more expensive.
I think the low Q of the inductor is due to the inductor coupling its magnetic field into the substrate or other lossy bits of semiconductor, so the inductor gets better the higher the metal layer is up off the substrate. That also makes layout more expensive (and less dense).
In short, if my evaluation was correct, building in inductors is barely possible, but not practical for most applications.
Pure reactances do not dissipate. This is about as basic as electricity gets.
I'm currently running two 1920x1080 LCDs over/under. It's inconvenient, and this is just home use.
A human can resolve about 7000x4000 without moving his head. I'd really like to see that, and I'd be willing to pay about $1500 for it - if a video card were available.
Gee, the Public Utility Commissions setting rates wouldn't have anything to do with inadequate money saved, would it?
The aspirin dose used in these tests is 1/4 of a standard tablet a day. That's 1/48th ( 2 per cent ) of the dose used for persistent pain relief. Some people are sensitive to even that small dose, but not many. For most people, there's no tradeoff.
Nice try, liar. What Rush said was (approximately) that anyone spending $1000 a year on contraceptives was a slut. Sounds like a pretty good estimate to me.
I managed to break a touchpad, the mouse port and the keyboard port by wiping a CRT with the back of my hand and then touching the mouse. Without extra serial ports, my computer would have been useless.
With the last tie to reality removed, here comes unlimited inflation.
Gambling is at best a zero sum game. The fact that we live in a civilization with corporations, houses, cars, and other possessions, voluntary employees, and stockholders strongly suggests that stock investing as a whole is a positive sum game. That there is risk involved does not make it gambling: there's risk involved in leaving your money in a savings account (where "inflation" beats compound interest), the risk is just less at the bank. If you think it's gambling, you aren't doing it properly.
As long as unemployment "insurance" is 99 weeks and the ruler is a vain kleptocrat, new hiring is like slipping a noose around your neck.
Another possibility is to split (spin off) part of the company. This probably isn't an option for Apple because it's too homogeneous.
Apple's trailing PEG is 0.145, which is very low. Normally, a trailing PEG of 1 is considered safe, and by that metric Apple should be priced at 4130 (which I don't think is reasonable.) Your $130-$150 range would give Apple a P/E of about 4 and a P/S of about 1, which are values for stagnant companies. If Apple gives strong signs that its growth had ended and profit margins collapsed, those values would become reasonable, but not now.
The dividend is less than 1/2%. That's less than a typical day's price variation. It simply isn't significant.
We don't have many voice recordings from 1800.
I'd guess that widespread use of the printing press (and now spell checkers) is at least going to make spelling more stable. Reading even the carefully composed works of Jefferson and Madison from 250 years ago can be irritating due to odd spellings.
Although spelling errors which result in different but correctly spelled words usually can be deciphered, I've seen examples where the misspelling resulted in a sentence with the opposite meaning of the writer's probable intent. Spelling matters (among other reasons) because errors can lead to financial problems if you put the wrong word into a contract.