Latex, loosely, refers to water-based paints; it is contrasted to oil paints. It has absolutely nothing to do with lead content.
In addition to being a pigment, lead in paint increases durability and has other good qualities for paint. There is NO replacement that is as good, but the toxicity of lead makes banning it a reasonable choice.
Edison developed things that many others were working on at the same time. He was a far more rapid and effective worker, and ended up completing his inventions first. The people who accused him of stealing were the bitter losers who couldn't do as well as Edison did; and those who accuse him today are either malicious or dupes.
It also brings out the sociopaths who think that people are evil unless the government prevents them from being so (as clear an example of projection as I've ever seen.) It also brings out those who deliberately misrepresent his views, trying to get their lies past those they believe to be morons.
The president has immense powers that can be used to disassemble an agency while appearing to do no such thing. With a Republican legislative branch, Paul's appointments will be mostly approved, and the cabinet can do a great deal to disable their various departments, until it's too late to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
40 years ago most packaged foods were labelled "Appr Penna Dept Agr" - Approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Pennsylvania had the most stringent food standards, and their approval was considered adequate by the other states.
The FDA is a battleground of political forces, where giant pharma begs and bribes for approval of good and bad medicines and tries to prevent the approval of its competition's products. Various forces try to make vitamins and other food supplements illegal, and override freedom of the press with FDA rules, lawsuits, arrests, raids, and murders. There are few things that would benefit the US more than wiping out the FDA and jailing its top executives.
There are private satellites and private weather forecasting services. The government need not be involved.
Most people would be better off if the "entitlements" were all ended today. Defense, however, cannot be blindly slashed. We should end nonessential protracted wars (that's all the wars we're currently in) and cut back on foreign bases while encouraging our allies to take care of themselves. That still leaves a lot of money that needs to go into the military and military technology advancement if we wish not to be subject to extortion by foreign governments.
If you can't charge for something enough to pay for its costs,then it isn't worth doing. Do you deliberately do things in your own life that, all things considered, are not worth the effort? Having found that they're not worth the effort, do you persist in doing them? If so, you're a fool or insane. The same applies to government and private organizations. If it isn't profitable, it shouldn't happen, because it is a waste of human life.
A lot of the so-called "National Park System" is a pure land grab with the twin goals of stealing property from its owners and preventing the development of natural resources. Regarding the prevention of massive theft as "ultra-libertarian ideology" is a remarkable twisting of the English language.
At least one book has been written demonstrating the financial viability of privately owned roads. Private residential communities have long kept and maintained their own roads. Any commercial concern located on a road benefits from the quality of that road, and by joining with other businesses into a road corporation, can maintain and upgrade that road at quite reasonable prices.
Modern technology (FastPass and the like) makes possible toll roads without toll booths. There are a variety of ways to handle those who try to be "free riders", who are not economically significant anyway.
...need to understand that we cannot do this from spending cuts and/or tax increases alone.
History and sound economic theory both show that tax increases make matters worse. Tax levels are well above the Laffer curve point where government income is maximized (not that maximum government income should be considered a valid goal.). Generally, the smarter, richer, and higher-income a person is, the better able he is to avoid taxes; and the higher his taxes, the more effort he expends avoiding taxes instead of producing.
Government's focus is on government. See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Once an agency's founders are no longer in charge, the people who come into control have no interest but increasing the size of their domain and their personal power.
Private institutions are dependent upon the satisfaction of their customers. If they please nobody, nobody buys their stuff. Then they have no money, no power.
A government agency that pleases nobody faces no such limitations. They continue to make matters worse for the general population until public pressure becomes unbearable or a revolution ensues. Not an optimum strategy if the good of humanity is the goal.
You think that NASA is responsible for the development of microchips? (T.I., Fairchild) You think that DOD is responsible for microwave ovens? (Raytheon). Clean water systems vary, but are mostly private or municipal.
And if you think that "eminent domain" is more purchase than seizure, you are quite gullible.
What tsunami has devastated California? More to the point, what good does an earthquake warning do, even (falsely) assuming one could be made? Ca. has building codes for earthquakes. A day's worth of warning would result in no changes in anybody's activities. 30 minutes warning would probably get a lot of people outdoors, and might save a dozen lives a decade. What with numerous false alarms, the net in effort expended would probably exceed the value of lives saved.
Wow, I just read part of the wikipedia entry. I had no idea. However, quoting 1 line from there:
In their postwar writings, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee both expressed their belief that the Confederate high command had failed to fully utilize Forrest's talents.
To find worse than Forrest, I'd have to go smaller scale (McVeigh, Manson). Although on the larger scale, men who have impoverished millions with malice of foresight (Wilson, Obama) certainly deserve consideration.
Thanks for your post, I think you've picked a "winner".
Since politicians are responsible for everything that happens within their domain, the politicians should be shot if anyone commits pedophilia. <\sarcasm>
Nonsequential and juvenile in the sense of fart jokes. If it weren't for the unusual clumsiness of the narrative and the ballyhoo given it by anarchists, I would have forgotten Illuminatus completely.
Gardner Dozois has an odd bias: he tends toward stories like those of the "new wave" authors circa 1970. If you think like a hippie, if you like stories where individuals and mankind are powerless against the universe, you'll like his choices. I hate them.
This isn't 1960. Typesetting is mostly automated; the author has already done most of the typesetting work by putting the book in electronic form. Binding is not a labor intensive process.
A bookstore gets the book at a wholesale price (generally 40% off cover price, but there are exceptions where they get less off). The cost of shelfspace is the retailer's problem, not the publisher's.
The writer generally gets a percentage of the cover price times the number of copies sold, on a sliding scale with the percentage going up as the number of copies sold increases. That percentage might run from 2% for low sales to 10% or 12% for a million copies. Obviously, the publisher isn't getting 98% of the profits, nor is it getting even half the gross after expenses.
Nothing prevents you from doing "for sale by owner". Realtors are a tad overpriced, but they have expenses that are not obvious at first glance. They use premium quality direct advertising, which is not inexpensive.
"jigga" was the preferred pronunciation when the prefix was devised. Ignorant usage made giga (hard g, long i) common, and by the usual progression of language, giga has become the default.
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Latex, loosely, refers to water-based paints; it is contrasted to oil paints. It has absolutely nothing to do with lead content.
In addition to being a pigment, lead in paint increases durability and has other good qualities for paint. There is NO replacement that is as good, but the toxicity of lead makes banning it a reasonable choice.
Edison developed things that many others were working on at the same time. He was a far more rapid and effective worker, and ended up completing his inventions first. The people who accused him of stealing were the bitter losers who couldn't do as well as Edison did; and those who accuse him today are either malicious or dupes.
It also brings out the sociopaths who think that people are evil unless the government prevents them from being so (as clear an example of projection as I've ever seen.) It also brings out those who deliberately misrepresent his views, trying to get their lies past those they believe to be morons.
The president has immense powers that can be used to disassemble an agency while appearing to do no such thing. With a Republican legislative branch, Paul's appointments will be mostly approved, and the cabinet can do a great deal to disable their various departments, until it's too late to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
40 years ago most packaged foods were labelled "Appr Penna Dept Agr" - Approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Pennsylvania had the most stringent food standards, and their approval was considered adequate by the other states.
The FDA is a battleground of political forces, where giant pharma begs and bribes for approval of good and bad medicines and tries to prevent the approval of its competition's products. Various forces try to make vitamins and other food supplements illegal, and override freedom of the press with FDA rules, lawsuits, arrests, raids, and murders. There are few things that would benefit the US more than wiping out the FDA and jailing its top executives.
Ron Paul has proposed substantial military cuts. If he mentioned all his proposed cuts every time he mentioned one, he'd talk for hours.
Time it took to destroy Pearl Harbor = < 1.0 day
There are private satellites and private weather forecasting services. The government need not be involved.
Most people would be better off if the "entitlements" were all ended today. Defense, however, cannot be blindly slashed. We should end nonessential protracted wars (that's all the wars we're currently in) and cut back on foreign bases while encouraging our allies to take care of themselves. That still leaves a lot of money that needs to go into the military and military technology advancement if we wish not to be subject to extortion by foreign governments.
If you can't charge for something enough to pay for its costs, then it isn't worth doing. Do you deliberately do things in your own life that, all things considered, are not worth the effort? Having found that they're not worth the effort, do you persist in doing them? If so, you're a fool or insane. The same applies to government and private organizations. If it isn't profitable, it shouldn't happen, because it is a waste of human life.
A lot of the so-called "National Park System" is a pure land grab with the twin goals of stealing property from its owners and preventing the development of natural resources. Regarding the prevention of massive theft as "ultra-libertarian ideology" is a remarkable twisting of the English language.
At least one book has been written demonstrating the financial viability of privately owned roads. Private residential communities have long kept and maintained their own roads. Any commercial concern located on a road benefits from the quality of that road, and by joining with other businesses into a road corporation, can maintain and upgrade that road at quite reasonable prices.
Modern technology (FastPass and the like) makes possible toll roads without toll booths. There are a variety of ways to handle those who try to be "free riders", who are not economically significant anyway.
History and sound economic theory both show that tax increases make matters worse. Tax levels are well above the Laffer curve point where government income is maximized (not that maximum government income should be considered a valid goal.). Generally, the smarter, richer, and higher-income a person is, the better able he is to avoid taxes; and the higher his taxes, the more effort he expends avoiding taxes instead of producing.
Government's focus is on government. See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Once an agency's founders are no longer in charge, the people who come into control have no interest but increasing the size of their domain and their personal power.
Private institutions are dependent upon the satisfaction of their customers. If they please nobody, nobody buys their stuff. Then they have no money, no power.
A government agency that pleases nobody faces no such limitations. They continue to make matters worse for the general population until public pressure becomes unbearable or a revolution ensues. Not an optimum strategy if the good of humanity is the goal.
You think that NASA is responsible for the development of microchips? (T.I., Fairchild) You think that DOD is responsible for microwave ovens? (Raytheon). Clean water systems vary, but are mostly private or municipal.
And if you think that "eminent domain" is more purchase than seizure, you are quite gullible.
What tsunami has devastated California? More to the point, what good does an earthquake warning do, even (falsely) assuming one could be made? Ca. has building codes for earthquakes. A day's worth of warning would result in no changes in anybody's activities. 30 minutes warning would probably get a lot of people outdoors, and might save a dozen lives a decade. What with numerous false alarms, the net in effort expended would probably exceed the value of lives saved.
Wow, I just read part of the wikipedia entry. I had no idea. However, quoting 1 line from there:
To find worse than Forrest, I'd have to go smaller scale (McVeigh, Manson). Although on the larger scale, men who have impoverished millions with malice of foresight (Wilson, Obama) certainly deserve consideration.
Thanks for your post, I think you've picked a "winner".
Since politicians are responsible for everything that happens within their domain, the politicians should be shot if anyone commits pedophilia. <\sarcasm>
Nonsequential and juvenile in the sense of fart jokes. If it weren't for the unusual clumsiness of the narrative and the ballyhoo given it by anarchists, I would have forgotten Illuminatus completely.
Note that Ringworld has vampire-like creatures.
Gardner Dozois has an odd bias: he tends toward stories like those of the "new wave" authors circa 1970. If you think like a hippie, if you like stories where individuals and mankind are powerless against the universe, you'll like his choices. I hate them.
This isn't 1960. Typesetting is mostly automated; the author has already done most of the typesetting work by putting the book in electronic form. Binding is not a labor intensive process.
A bookstore gets the book at a wholesale price (generally 40% off cover price, but there are exceptions where they get less off). The cost of shelfspace is the retailer's problem, not the publisher's.
The writer generally gets a percentage of the cover price times the number of copies sold, on a sliding scale with the percentage going up as the number of copies sold increases. That percentage might run from 2% for low sales to 10% or 12% for a million copies. Obviously, the publisher isn't getting 98% of the profits, nor is it getting even half the gross after expenses.
Nothing prevents you from doing "for sale by owner". Realtors are a tad overpriced, but they have expenses that are not obvious at first glance. They use premium quality direct advertising, which is not inexpensive.
Many authors need editors in order to produce a worthwhile product. A few don't. Expect the average quality of writing to decline.
"jigga" was the preferred pronunciation when the prefix was devised. Ignorant usage made giga (hard g, long i) common, and by the usual progression of language, giga has become the default.
Vox populi, vox dei.
145 kph (90mph) LNWR No. 790 Hardwicke Steam United Kingdom 22–23 August 1895 (wikipedia)
Steam rail vehicles were the fastest vehicles in the last half of the 19th century.