"Doing some good with the money you stole from people doesn't make up for the stealing."
With regard to government, since to have civilization we must have some government, the proper principle is that the damage that can be prevented by using the stolen money must be worse than the damage that is stealing the money. Murder is worse than theft, and murder can be discouraged in a cost-effective manner by paying police with tax money. Dropping a gum wrapper on the sidewalk is not worse than theft, and paying a policeman to agressively patrol against minor littering is not cost-effective.
After a while, foundations diverge from the principles of their founders, the Ford Foundation being a prime example. Limiting the life of the foundation seems like the most effective way of preventing this from happening.
Many complaints add up. If a hundred small and medium size retailers tell (preferably in writing) a manufacturer "some people aren't buying your product because a competitor's package is easier to open" the manufacturer will take notice.
"vacuum tube tech was easy to service because vacuum tube tech needed service often."
Partially true. Tubes were socketed for easy replacement. But all other components weren't too hard to replace simply because the technology was relatively primitive. Even a clumbsy person could unsolder a burned resistor in a 1950 TV and replace it with a good part. Today, you need a magnifier, tweezers, and specialized soldering gear.
To a certain extent, electronics can be engineered for extra durability. Use high quality parts from respected manufacturers. In some cases, use mil-spec parts. Don't run parts anywhere near their power, voltage, or current limits. Don't let parts run hot. Use sealed potentiometers. Use a manufacturing process that doesn't leave flux residue on the printed circuit board. Design so that variations (and in some cases, failures!) of individual parts don't cause degradation of performance or failure. Protect inputs and outputs from electrostatic discharge. And so forth.
Some of this is just good practice, some means more money must be spent, some means a lot more money must be spent.
In 1980, a new VCR cost $700 at a bargain store. It was heavy because it had a high quality machined cast-aluminum chassis. It was good until the heads wore out or the belts failed. Now, a new VCR costs $50 and has many more features. It's light because it's mostly plastic. Technology has advanced; what was transistorized in 1980 is now integrated. Recordings are better due to video processing tricks and better tape. The machine will last until the heads wear out or the belts fail.
Designing electronics so that cheap, easily replaceable parts fail is generally not an option, with the exception of adding fuses and circuit breakers.
The 2N2222 is a metal can part. "Plastic 2N2222" is an oxymoron. Of course, that doesn't stop retailers from selling plastic encapsulated parts and calling them 2N2222.
Your nanonail sounds very dangerous. Sharper than a needle for poking holes all the way through your hand, supersharp barbs for ripping off skin. No thanks.
To the above add MSM. If your work involves things that heavily stress your hands, try to reduce that stress or find a different kind of work. Do some research on the subject of arthritis and alter your diet accordingly. Wear gloves to keep your hands warm. Try pain-relieving rubs, ben-gay when the odor is tolerable, aspercreme otherwise. Look carefully at your habits to see if you're doing anything to make matters worse.
The problem with buying low is that some companies do go out of business and the stock becomes worth zero. Others get bought out at a low price (you don't always have the opportunity to say "I won't sell at that price.").
If the price stays flat you lose against "inflation".
You need to do much more analysis than say "This stock's price is low, it's time to buy."
Vitesse (VTSS) got to over $100. You could have later bought it for the bargain price of $10. The most recent close was $1.20.
401K money should go into broad indexes and healthy growing companies. The stability that strength and large numbers give overwhelms the effects of short-term traders.
Linux does not prevent you from using free screeners at Yahoo, Reuters, and Zacks, among others. Yahoo is better for day traders, Reuters and Zacks for longer term.
Selling a huge number of shares does not necessarily depress the price if limit orders are used. Occasionally I've seen evidence of this happening, as a stock price bumps up against a price at high volume, stays at that price for an hour or so, retreats a little from that price and then rises to bump up against it again, and so on until the number of shares being sold is exhausted.
There are techniques available that average better than 20% a year: see www.aaii.com/stockscreens. There are also screens that regularly beat the major indexes. Though quite good, these numbers are not necessarily signs of fraud, nor are they the best that is possible.
There are several characteristics that, even if you take only one of them, will do better than the general market over time. One is high return on equity, which is good for several percent a year.
There's no necessity to be right 90% of the time. Many good systems are right for only 60% of trades and still beat the market significantly.
Most major parties have platforms that are compromises which only tend toward an ideological position. Many individuals have organized political beliefs; the consistency of those beliefs results in a net political position characterized as "extreme". When a questionaire distills those organized beliefs, they'll match up with parties that also have coherent beliefs, and those parties are on the fringe.
Funny you should bring up Donald Knuth. Page 298 of "The Art of Computer Programming" Vol. 1 Edition 2 (Copyright 1968, 1973) discusses higher-dimensional linked arrays on page 298+. There's a nice diagram on page 300 illustrating a sparse array. See also page 458 paragraph 3 for a discussion of the history.
If they are actually getting efficiencies near 40%, and the devices aren't too bulky or heavy, you don't use it to enhance an internal combustion engine, you use it to replace an internal combustion engine. Burner, converter, electric motor, and the job's done. No more catalytic converters, mufflers, mandatory pollution tests. No periodic oil changes, starter motors, or alternators.
Actually, if this were a good idea, a company like General Electric could fund it with one year's profits and have money left over. The problem is that this is an experiment, not a practical project. 12.8 billion is going to be spent on something unlikely to be of lasting value.
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With regard to government, since to have civilization we must have some government, the proper principle is that the damage that can be prevented by using the stolen money must be worse than the damage that is stealing the money. Murder is worse than theft, and murder can be discouraged in a cost-effective manner by paying police with tax money. Dropping a gum wrapper on the sidewalk is not worse than theft, and paying a policeman to agressively patrol against minor littering is not cost-effective.
After a while, foundations diverge from the principles of their founders, the Ford Foundation being a prime example. Limiting the life of the foundation seems like the most effective way of preventing this from happening.
According to Wikipedia, the wheel is at least as old as Egyptian civilization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel
Many complaints add up. If a hundred small and medium size retailers tell (preferably in writing) a manufacturer "some people aren't buying your product because a competitor's package is easier to open" the manufacturer will take notice.
In English text, rather than nesting parentheses, I find that using brackets or braces for the inner sets is clearer.
Partially true. Tubes were socketed for easy replacement. But all other components weren't too hard to replace simply because the technology was relatively primitive. Even a clumbsy person could unsolder a burned resistor in a 1950 TV and replace it with a good part. Today, you need a magnifier, tweezers, and specialized soldering gear.
Some of this is just good practice, some means more money must be spent, some means a lot more money must be spent.
In 1980, a new VCR cost $700 at a bargain store. It was heavy because it had a high quality machined cast-aluminum chassis. It was good until the heads wore out or the belts failed. Now, a new VCR costs $50 and has many more features. It's light because it's mostly plastic. Technology has advanced; what was transistorized in 1980 is now integrated. Recordings are better due to video processing tricks and better tape. The machine will last until the heads wear out or the belts fail.
Designing electronics so that cheap, easily replaceable parts fail is generally not an option, with the exception of adding fuses and circuit breakers.
The 2N2222 is a metal can part. "Plastic 2N2222" is an oxymoron. Of course, that doesn't stop retailers from selling plastic encapsulated parts and calling them 2N2222.
The foam usually used is polystyrene. Where it is exposed to the weather, chunks are easily broken off and the result is ugly.
Your nanonail sounds very dangerous. Sharper than a needle for poking holes all the way through your hand, supersharp barbs for ripping off skin. No thanks.
To the above add MSM. If your work involves things that heavily stress your hands, try to reduce that stress or find a different kind of work. Do some research on the subject of arthritis and alter your diet accordingly. Wear gloves to keep your hands warm. Try pain-relieving rubs, ben-gay when the odor is tolerable, aspercreme otherwise. Look carefully at your habits to see if you're doing anything to make matters worse.
If the price stays flat you lose against "inflation".
You need to do much more analysis than say "This stock's price is low, it's time to buy."
Vitesse (VTSS) got to over $100. You could have later bought it for the bargain price of $10. The most recent close was $1.20.
401K money should go into broad indexes and healthy growing companies. The stability that strength and large numbers give overwhelms the effects of short-term traders.
Linux does not prevent you from using free screeners at Yahoo, Reuters, and Zacks, among others. Yahoo is better for day traders, Reuters and Zacks for longer term.
Selling a huge number of shares does not necessarily depress the price if limit orders are used. Occasionally I've seen evidence of this happening, as a stock price bumps up against a price at high volume, stays at that price for an hour or so, retreats a little from that price and then rises to bump up against it again, and so on until the number of shares being sold is exhausted.
There are several characteristics that, even if you take only one of them, will do better than the general market over time. One is high return on equity, which is good for several percent a year.
There's no necessity to be right 90% of the time. Many good systems are right for only 60% of trades and still beat the market significantly.
Most major parties have platforms that are compromises which only tend toward an ideological position. Many individuals have organized political beliefs; the consistency of those beliefs results in a net political position characterized as "extreme". When a questionaire distills those organized beliefs, they'll match up with parties that also have coherent beliefs, and those parties are on the fringe.
Funny you should bring up Donald Knuth. Page 298 of "The Art of Computer Programming" Vol. 1 Edition 2 (Copyright 1968, 1973) discusses higher-dimensional linked arrays on page 298+. There's a nice diagram on page 300 illustrating a sparse array. See also page 458 paragraph 3 for a discussion of the history.
Are you being deliberately stupid? Different ways means sorting using different criteria or sorting on different fields.
I gather you've never seen a hundred year old piece of cast iron with "PAT PEND" cast into it.
If they are actually getting efficiencies near 40%, and the devices aren't too bulky or heavy, you don't use it to enhance an internal combustion engine, you use it to replace an internal combustion engine. Burner, converter, electric motor, and the job's done. No more catalytic converters, mufflers, mandatory pollution tests. No periodic oil changes, starter motors, or alternators.
The middle east is a problem NOW; we can't say to them "Please stop killing while we develop technology to make you irrelevant."
Actually, if this were a good idea, a company like General Electric could fund it with one year's profits and have money left over. The problem is that this is an experiment, not a practical project. 12.8 billion is going to be spent on something unlikely to be of lasting value.
Since when is a tax a subsidy?
I suppose some schools are in such poor condition that it is not possible to learn in them, but I haven't seen any.
Hire additional teachers? What for? There's no reason kids can't learn in a classroom with 40 students.