A patent is a temporary monopoly on the right to produce a physical manifestation of an idea. That monopoly is granted in return for money and making the idea public. It is not a monopoly on imaginary property.
Messing with the interface is a severe problem. I just did a routine update of KDE, and about 1/3 of the settings were lost. Three hours later, it's still not right.
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
National Semi, although one of the big players and a significant innovator, has a history of getting into financial trouble. Texas Instruments is a more stable operation and has always given the impression that it was run by more sensible people. If the corporate cultures are compatible, I think this move is for the best.
Electrolysis will stop hair growth permanently, but it's expensive, time consuming, and if done without anesthesia, painful. Some chemicals will stop hair growth, but I'm not aware of anything that's safe.
I predict this will be massively funded and become a major hit among the gloriously over paid. Elsewhere people die from measles and AIDS everyday because they can't cough up enough green.
Your argument applies to anything a person buys beyond whatever he needs to keep alive.
I reject your morality that demands that I consider anyone else superior to my own life. I cordially invite you to drop dead.
disease n A condition of ill health or malfunctioning in a living organism...
Baldness most certainly qualifies as a disease. Hair has many functions, and baldness is most certainly a malfunction. And not all men lose significant amounts of hair, even in extreme old age.
People whose names are recorded in history tended to live a long time, cause and effect running in both directions. But the vast run of ordinary people had substantial death rates throughout life. Many diseases could fell people in middle age, many were weakened early in life and died of no particular identifiable cause in middle age. Farmers -- who for a long time were most of the people alive -- often lived very hard lives and were essentially worn out by 40 or 50 and died soon thereafter. The "squaring" of the mortality curve is a recent phenomenon.
toxin n Any of a class of more or less unstable poisonous compounds developed by animal, vegetable, or bacterial organisms and acting as causative agents in many diseases. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary, 1986).
toxic adj Of or caused by poison, poisonous. (ibid)
It looks like the word means just what he thinks it means. Why are you so testy? Are you..... stressed?
Hair protects your head from sunburn and helps keep you warm. If you see a guy wearing a hat indoors, odds are that he's bald and too cold for comfort without the hat.
Drugs like opium were available at reasonable expense 150 years ago. If the only regulation were for purity, there is no reason that it would be more expensive now (in constant dollars) than then.
Your gratuitous obscene insults notwithstanding, the free market is almost always the best path. Unless you think drug armies killing indiscriminately is a good thing. Removing legal barriers to the manufacture, transportation, sale, and use of drugs removes the profits available to those who use violence to provide such drugs, and frees up the labor of those who fight against drugs to do something honest with their lives.
That Metro bus you were on was paid for with stolen money. If the fares covered costs, a private firm could have done it for less; if not, the stealing was ongoing.
It's interesting that those who attack the free market frequently claim its supporters are invoking magic, yet fail to see their own blind faith in government action. (Historically, this is due to Adam Smith's statement that the free market acts as if guided by an "invisible hand".) The fact is that the free market works by identifiable mechanisms, just as an automobile does, and you don't have to understand the mechanism for it to work. Any sneering critic can look at the lack of understanding, and from that, like Ralph Nader, conclude that the market or the car doesn't work.
The biggest advantage for self-driving cars is for those who can't or aren't legally allowed to drive cars now. Large numbers of old people can't drive for a variety of health reasons. Youngsters can't drive for reasons of lack of good judgement and driving skills. This would greatly enhance the lives of oldsters and free up the time of people who now have to drive them around. A lot of ambulance and taxi drivers are going to have to find new lines of work.
And before you complain about the lose of freedom, this would not at all be the first time that a society has restricted use of a product known to kill thousands of people a year.
The implication here is that motor vehicles kill more lives than they save, which is demonstrably false.
The fact that "society" has restricted the use of some product for whatever alleged good reason does not make it right. And "society" doesn't do those things, government does. Government actions usually are the result of bribery or dishonest pressure groups, and that sure seems like a way to get quality results.
It's in the nations best interest to prevent 35k deaths a year from auto-accidents
The idea that computer-controlled cars would prevent all automobile fatalities in the US (and that's what 35k means) is preposterous. Consider equipment failures, "black" ice, drunken pedestrians, and the occasional murder by pushing someone into traffic.
And then, inexplicably, Tesla waits 2 years to sue.
It takes time to analyze the data, compare it to the program, and decide that there was deliberate misrepresentation. It takes time to realize that the BBC isn't replying to a letter, and to repeat the process. It takes time to consult your legal staff, and conclude you have a case. It takes time to see that the BBC is repeating the episode instead of quietly withdrawing it, especially when it refuses to communicate.
And everyone who has spent any time outside during summer knows that the amount of energy that hits the earth can warm it slightly, but it hardly has enough energy to move your car.
Never heard of the solar car races run in Australia (and elsewhere), have you? Using cells with efficiencies probably in the 18% to 25% range, the top average speed now exceeds 100 km/h (62 mph). These aren't practical cars, but there's obviously enough to move (your criterion) my car. Probably at 20 mph on the level.
Nominal solar energy density is 1 kW/m^2. That's about 4000 watts on the area of a moderate-sized car, 5.3 hp. At 25% efficiency that's 1000 watts, 1.34 hp. Not much, but enough.
Sounds like BS to me, or just the random pronouncement of someone not bothering to think (but I repeat myself). A superconductor is 100% efficient, and no step in photosynthesis is going to beat that. To be more analytical, consider this: the light-to-some-particular-chemical-transformation suffers the same problem as photocells: many energy levels in, but only one energy level out. Only one wavelength can even possibly be 100% efficient, the rest are less efficient or fail to drive the reaction. QED BS.
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A patent is a temporary monopoly on the right to produce a physical manifestation of an idea. That monopoly is granted in return for money and making the idea public. It is not a monopoly on imaginary property.
Messing with the interface is a severe problem. I just did a routine update of KDE, and about 1/3 of the settings were lost. Three hours later, it's still not right.
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
National Semi, although one of the big players and a significant innovator, has a history of getting into financial trouble. Texas Instruments is a more stable operation and has always given the impression that it was run by more sensible people. If the corporate cultures are compatible, I think this move is for the best.
Electrolysis will stop hair growth permanently, but it's expensive, time consuming, and if done without anesthesia, painful. Some chemicals will stop hair growth, but I'm not aware of anything that's safe.
How ironic that 3 of the 4 items you mention were developed for treating problems other than baldness.
Technically, the malaria problem has several solutions. The reason the disease is still a major problem is political.
Your argument applies to anything a person buys beyond whatever he needs to keep alive.
I reject your morality that demands that I consider anyone else superior to my own life. I cordially invite you to drop dead.
disease n A condition of ill health or malfunctioning in a living organism...
Baldness most certainly qualifies as a disease. Hair has many functions, and baldness is most certainly a malfunction. And not all men lose significant amounts of hair, even in extreme old age.
People whose names are recorded in history tended to live a long time, cause and effect running in both directions. But the vast run of ordinary people had substantial death rates throughout life. Many diseases could fell people in middle age, many were weakened early in life and died of no particular identifiable cause in middle age. Farmers -- who for a long time were most of the people alive -- often lived very hard lives and were essentially worn out by 40 or 50 and died soon thereafter. The "squaring" of the mortality curve is a recent phenomenon.
toxin n Any of a class of more or less unstable poisonous compounds developed by animal, vegetable, or bacterial organisms and acting as causative agents in many diseases. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary, 1986).
toxic adj Of or caused by poison, poisonous. (ibid)
It looks like the word means just what he thinks it means. Why are you so testy? Are you ..... stressed?
Hair protects your head from sunburn and helps keep you warm. If you see a guy wearing a hat indoors, odds are that he's bald and too cold for comfort without the hat.
As far as "landlocked" goes, there's at least 1 lake on the Italy-Switzerland border.
Drugs like opium were available at reasonable expense 150 years ago. If the only regulation were for purity, there is no reason that it would be more expensive now (in constant dollars) than then.
Your gratuitous obscene insults notwithstanding, the free market is almost always the best path. Unless you think drug armies killing indiscriminately is a good thing. Removing legal barriers to the manufacture, transportation, sale, and use of drugs removes the profits available to those who use violence to provide such drugs, and frees up the labor of those who fight against drugs to do something honest with their lives.
That Metro bus you were on was paid for with stolen money. If the fares covered costs, a private firm could have done it for less; if not, the stealing was ongoing.
It's interesting that those who attack the free market frequently claim its supporters are invoking magic, yet fail to see their own blind faith in government action. (Historically, this is due to Adam Smith's statement that the free market acts as if guided by an "invisible hand".) The fact is that the free market works by identifiable mechanisms, just as an automobile does, and you don't have to understand the mechanism for it to work. Any sneering critic can look at the lack of understanding, and from that, like Ralph Nader, conclude that the market or the car doesn't work.
The goal of paraquat spraying was to kill the plants, not make users sick/dead. Paraquat is a herbicide.
The biggest advantage for self-driving cars is for those who can't or aren't legally allowed to drive cars now. Large numbers of old people can't drive for a variety of health reasons. Youngsters can't drive for reasons of lack of good judgement and driving skills. This would greatly enhance the lives of oldsters and free up the time of people who now have to drive them around. A lot of ambulance and taxi drivers are going to have to find new lines of work.
The implication here is that motor vehicles kill more lives than they save, which is demonstrably false.
The fact that "society" has restricted the use of some product for whatever alleged good reason does not make it right. And "society" doesn't do those things, government does. Government actions usually are the result of bribery or dishonest pressure groups, and that sure seems like a way to get quality results.
The idea that computer-controlled cars would prevent all automobile fatalities in the US (and that's what 35k means) is preposterous. Consider equipment failures, "black" ice, drunken pedestrians, and the occasional murder by pushing someone into traffic.
The 8088 had an 8 bit data bus, the 68000 had 16 bit, which would have been more expensive. The 68008 didn't come out until it was too late.
It takes time to analyze the data, compare it to the program, and decide that there was deliberate misrepresentation. It takes time to realize that the BBC isn't replying to a letter, and to repeat the process. It takes time to consult your legal staff, and conclude you have a case. It takes time to see that the BBC is repeating the episode instead of quietly withdrawing it, especially when it refuses to communicate.
Reverence for "God" comes from an abject failure in critical thinking on that subject.
I didn't get the fascicles 'cuz I figured they'd melt if I took them out of the freezer.
Never heard of the solar car races run in Australia (and elsewhere), have you? Using cells with efficiencies probably in the 18% to 25% range, the top average speed now exceeds 100 km/h (62 mph). These aren't practical cars, but there's obviously enough to move (your criterion) my car. Probably at 20 mph on the level.
Nominal solar energy density is 1 kW/m^2. That's about 4000 watts on the area of a moderate-sized car, 5.3 hp. At 25% efficiency that's 1000 watts, 1.34 hp. Not much, but enough.
Sounds like BS to me, or just the random pronouncement of someone not bothering to think (but I repeat myself). A superconductor is 100% efficient, and no step in photosynthesis is going to beat that. To be more analytical, consider this: the light-to-some-particular-chemical-transformation suffers the same problem as photocells: many energy levels in, but only one energy level out. Only one wavelength can even possibly be 100% efficient, the rest are less efficient or fail to drive the reaction. QED BS.
I've read that the photosynthesis tuned to green light was actually less efficient than the chlorophyll variety.