Yes, there is a fundamental difference between bloggers and pamphleteers. Pamphlets are mailed to or handed out to people who for the most part receive them involuntarily. People seek out blogs, people exposed to blogs are being exposed as a result of voluntary and purposeful behavior. This is an immense difference.
The effectiveness of one person's firearm versus a rogue government depends upon proper target selection and shooting first. That's why we prefer the original version of Star Wars.
The advantage of vertical stacking of bare dice is that the interconnect can be extremely short. I'd guess this could be in the 10's of microns, best case. Multichip modules are 2D, and minimum interconnects are thousands of microns. Vertical stacking thus promises substantial improvement.
So you oppose freedom and wealth for IT workers in India and China? You can't compete against their honest work without a politician's gun backing you up? Free trade is the absence of political interference in trade, and no amount of logorhea will make it otherwise.
1. Crime is what criminals do. Some few of them don't get caught and end up well-off or even rich. However, generally criminals have behaviors that do not foster making and keeping money, so they are poor. Crime does not require poor people, crime requires bad people.
2. Is a complete nonsequitur and bears no relation to reality. Lots of not-rich people report crimes.
Egads, what a disconnect. You say that research has found that the way to stop theft is to develop loyalty, and then propose theft-through-taxes as the solution to crime.
Incidentally, there is no healthcare "crisis"; a crisis is a situation in which things have gotten dramatically worse. What's gotten worse is that expectations have increased much faster than the significant actual progress in health, and that wild polictical rhetoric has inflamed these expectations.
"If I'm born wealthy and just leave my money in the stock market certs daddy left me, why should I ever contribute anything to society instead of being a lazy rich bastard?"
Although many rich succumb to this fantasy, there is a good answer.
A person who does something worthwhile with his life earns a sense of pride that no wastrel can achieve. He will be much happier, and better able to handle the difficulties that life eventually brings.
The fact that luxuries such as air conditioning owned by the poor aren't very expensive is NOT an indication that their situation is bad. It is, to the contrary, an indication that their situation is acceptable because they can afford inexpensive appliances that enhance their lives.
When I was carless I walked as far as 2 miles or rode my bicycle as far as 5 miles to the grocery. Bikes are available free from people who no longer want them, or at the town dump. I live in a town of 1200 and I see a discarded bike almost every time I go there.
The air conditioner, TV, etc. are things that help to make life quite pleasant even if a person doesn't have a lot of money. It's what makes our poor "rich" by historical standards. Why are you pissing on these things?
Poland is an entirely inappropriate comparison. Poland transitioned from a tyranny of state ownership to a fair degree of freedom. Zimbabwe went from a mixed market to tyranny. You'd be more accurate if you reversed the temporal order in one case.
To understand your post, please replace the euphemism "redistribution" with the word "theft".
"Medicare, public education, [government provided] emergency services, etc." are all forms of theft and are harmful to the country as a whole compared to free market alternatives. They all send money through a bureaucracy that siphons off money and insulates a customer's desires from the provider's motivation.
Your complaint that the poster gave the single worst example, implies that you think he should have made a weaker argument. How silly is that?
What the bloody hell are you doing with children you can't afford if you didn't choose to have them? Why are you buying on credit?
To the extent that poverty is intergenerational it is mostly because parents teach bad attitude.
If parents aren't competent enough to be worth more than minimum wage, a higher minimum wage will get them fired. That'll really help make ends meet, won't it?
Having the benefit of a high-prestige college is not worth as much as it seems; I've been there and it's not all that good. Perhaps the cheaper places are really terrible, but if that were so it would be cheaper and more effective to teach yourself. (Only for a minority of professions, such as surgical doctors, is this not possible.) People coming out of high-cost colleges tend to do better in life because they are better people (measured in terms of their abilities and perseverence), not because the college makes them better.
Part of the reason the US spends so much on the military is that some of the US military's expenses go toward helping to protect the EU. The EU is not bearing the full cost of its own protection.
The US would be much wealthier overall if more than 50% of the federal budget were not sunk into unconstitutional expenses like welfare, social security, food stamps, and other wealth transfer schemes. When you spend a lot of money on something, you get more of it. In many federal cases we are spending money on poor people, making it easier to be poor, and (surprise!) we're getting more poverty.
People with extremely low incomes generally have very little personal property and thus don't need more in terms of a dwelling than a portion of a room. Such people can share a room; throughout the country there are people who rent out single rooms at very modest rates. Sharing a room with someone else cuts the expense further. There is something very seriously wrong with a working person in the US who cannot afford this sort of an arrangement.
Although diamonds have a lot less practical value than gold, there are other important uses beyond abrasives (industrial diamonds). Diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity of any solid, and they show some potential as a semiconductor.
You should have read the article, which is short and has almost no facts. It does use the word "polymer", which implies a plastic such as polyester. A good plastic cap should "never" fail.
By the way, tantalums are a variety of electrolytic, often used in military applications. My recollection is that they have a high initial failure rate but a long reliable life after that.
With a dimmer less power will be consumed than the same lamp without a dimmer. However much less light is produced. If you never need full brightness, lower power lamps are a more efficient choice.
Common dimmers do not dissipate much power. They are not variable resistors, which would be a very poor design choice. Modern household dimmers use semiconductor switches. 45 years ago, variable autotransformers (Variac, TM) were the default technology.
Dimmable compact fluorescents are now available but cost more.
An aquaintance of mine died of asphyxiation due to a gas leak. You pretty much have to have electricity in your house; gas stove and oven, which are usually not even vented to the outside, are an unnecessary risk.
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Grow a brain, man. Get rid of your monomania against "corporate individuals". It's just a conceptual abbreviation.
Yes, there is a fundamental difference between bloggers and pamphleteers. Pamphlets are mailed to or handed out to people who for the most part receive them involuntarily. People seek out blogs, people exposed to blogs are being exposed as a result of voluntary and purposeful behavior. This is an immense difference.
The effectiveness of one person's firearm versus a rogue government depends upon proper target selection and shooting first. That's why we prefer the original version of Star Wars.
You don't see much mention of the fact that some of the Kent State protestors were stoning national guardsmen. Nope, no media bias here.
The advantage of vertical stacking of bare dice is that the interconnect can be extremely short. I'd guess this could be in the 10's of microns, best case. Multichip modules are 2D, and minimum interconnects are thousands of microns. Vertical stacking thus promises substantial improvement.
So you oppose freedom and wealth for IT workers in India and China? You can't compete against their honest work without a politician's gun backing you up? Free trade is the absence of political interference in trade, and no amount of logorhea will make it otherwise.
2. Is a complete nonsequitur and bears no relation to reality. Lots of not-rich people report crimes.
Incidentally, there is no healthcare "crisis"; a crisis is a situation in which things have gotten dramatically worse. What's gotten worse is that expectations have increased much faster than the significant actual progress in health, and that wild polictical rhetoric has inflamed these expectations.
Although many rich succumb to this fantasy, there is a good answer.
A person who does something worthwhile with his life earns a sense of pride that no wastrel can achieve. He will be much happier, and better able to handle the difficulties that life eventually brings.
When I was carless I walked as far as 2 miles or rode my bicycle as far as 5 miles to the grocery. Bikes are available free from people who no longer want them, or at the town dump. I live in a town of 1200 and I see a discarded bike almost every time I go there.
The air conditioner, TV, etc. are things that help to make life quite pleasant even if a person doesn't have a lot of money. It's what makes our poor "rich" by historical standards. Why are you pissing on these things?
Poland is an entirely inappropriate comparison. Poland transitioned from a tyranny of state ownership to a fair degree of freedom. Zimbabwe went from a mixed market to tyranny. You'd be more accurate if you reversed the temporal order in one case.
"Medicare, public education, [government provided] emergency services, etc." are all forms of theft and are harmful to the country as a whole compared to free market alternatives. They all send money through a bureaucracy that siphons off money and insulates a customer's desires from the provider's motivation.
Your complaint that the poster gave the single worst example, implies that you think he should have made a weaker argument. How silly is that?
To the extent that poverty is intergenerational it is mostly because parents teach bad attitude.
If parents aren't competent enough to be worth more than minimum wage, a higher minimum wage will get them fired. That'll really help make ends meet, won't it?
$20/hour X 2 people X 52 wks/yr X 40 hrs/wk = $83,200.. Perhaps years are longer where you live, or you assume a work-week of 48 hours?
Having the benefit of a high-prestige college is not worth as much as it seems; I've been there and it's not all that good. Perhaps the cheaper places are really terrible, but if that were so it would be cheaper and more effective to teach yourself. (Only for a minority of professions, such as surgical doctors, is this not possible.) People coming out of high-cost colleges tend to do better in life because they are better people (measured in terms of their abilities and perseverence), not because the college makes them better.
The US would be much wealthier overall if more than 50% of the federal budget were not sunk into unconstitutional expenses like welfare, social security, food stamps, and other wealth transfer schemes. When you spend a lot of money on something, you get more of it. In many federal cases we are spending money on poor people, making it easier to be poor, and (surprise!) we're getting more poverty.
People with extremely low incomes generally have very little personal property and thus don't need more in terms of a dwelling than a portion of a room. Such people can share a room; throughout the country there are people who rent out single rooms at very modest rates. Sharing a room with someone else cuts the expense further. There is something very seriously wrong with a working person in the US who cannot afford this sort of an arrangement.
Although diamonds have a lot less practical value than gold, there are other important uses beyond abrasives (industrial diamonds). Diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity of any solid, and they show some potential as a semiconductor.
By the way, tantalums are a variety of electrolytic, often used in military applications. My recollection is that they have a high initial failure rate but a long reliable life after that.
And the rebuttal to the common argument against modes is "The status line displays the current mode."
Best estimates say population will peak about 2050 well short of 10 billion.
It's going to be really fun, watching them trying to build a dyke around the entire Florida coast.
Err... No water heater? When was the last time you bathed?
Common dimmers do not dissipate much power. They are not variable resistors, which would be a very poor design choice. Modern household dimmers use semiconductor switches. 45 years ago, variable autotransformers (Variac, TM) were the default technology.
Dimmable compact fluorescents are now available but cost more.
An aquaintance of mine died of asphyxiation due to a gas leak. You pretty much have to have electricity in your house; gas stove and oven, which are usually not even vented to the outside, are an unnecessary risk.