Before America was a country there was very little industry. The country was mostly agricultural. The total US population in 1790 was about 4 million, the largest city (NYC) 33,000.
Please explain how America was run, even before it was a country, and the terrible industrial policy that made it that way.
There is an issue here. Best health for the newborn is generally achieved when time is allowed for as much blood as possible to drain from the placenta through the umbilical into the newborn. Care must be observed not to shortchange the baby in an attempt to help someone else.
The government either needs to stop making moral issues legal issues.
First, your sentence makes no sense. Is the word "either" superfluous? Second, many moral issues must be legal issues. Murder is both immoral and illegal. So are rape and larceny, and properly so.
Pieces of comet on the moon will be intermingled with moon materials and a variety of meteorites. Too polluted to get meaningful data. Furthermore, the heat from the collision with the moon, and the passage of time, would drive off volatile components.
That said, there is value from the "defense" standpoint - defense against comets colliding with earth. This experiment may give some indication of how much of a shattering effect throwing things at a comet will have.
Similar to this is Alesis Digital Audio Tape (ADAT), which used Super VHS (SVHS) tapes. The technology has been obsoleted, due to superior cost/performance of digital audio recording to hard disk. Production ended about 4 years ago.
The mechanical vulnerability of cheap tape systems is just too much of a disadvantage compared to other modern options.
24 years ago I worked for Litton Industries as an employee, and then briefly as a contractor. I got twice as much per hour (gross, before any deductions) as a contractor than as an employee, and that was their standard practice. This is reasonable and proper; a contractor is expected to show initiative and have risks (of no job) and costs (of marketing, insurance, retirement, etc.) that employees do not have.
If you sell your services at too low a price, the company will have no incentive to make you an employee.
So, you're saying that the university (i.e. the state) should risk taxpayer's money by setting up a manufacturing facility for this product? Or that noone should ever develop it? Or that professors should never do practical research?
"The public" as a whole does not benefit from this product - individuals do. Likewise, the public as a whole does not manufacture it, sell it, buy it, repair it, or improve it.
I don't know what the policies of the University of Wisconsin are, but it's likely they'll be getting some royalty payments out of this since they have a patent.
Yes, there is a problem with the state taking money to run schools (except military academies), but objecting to commercial research is unrealistic.
Like, for example, in my religion, interest based financial transactions are not allowed. The only people who say its ok are bankers!
Much of civilization and technology would not exist without "interest based financial transactions." Without those transactions, people with money would have no incentive to loan money to people with ideas. So: commercial borrowers like them. So do people with money in savings accounts.
There is some relation between the price of gold and its cost of production. Large increases in the price of gold result in less productive mines being (re)opened, more miners being used in active mines, etc..
Delorean produced a mediocre sports car. (Read reviews in Car & Driver, Road & Track, etc. for details.) He overestimated market demand be a substantial margin (despite being advised that he was wrong) because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to bilk the Irish government for funding.
Having a life watt-hour meter on the battery does not solve the problem of losing my new, high-value battery when I swap it out for a weak one that is worth less and might not have the capacity to get me home.
FWIW, lumens also take into account the spectral response of the human eye. A light generating 683 lumens per watt would be unpleasant for general use, because all of its output would be yellow-green. The ratio lumens/watt is referred to as efficacy (think effectiveness), not efficiency.
Where I live, electricity is 12 cents/kWh. A 100 W drain is $105 a year. Where I sit, I use the equivalent of a 100 W incandescent 12 hours a day. That's $52 a year with incandescent, $13 a year with fluorescent, $6.50 a year with LEDs. The time value of money can't catch up with savings like this.
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40 hour workweeks are the product of market forces and the success of the industrial revolution. The effect of unions is to introduce violence and threats of violence into the workplace.
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With the -rare- exception, companies will squeeze their employees for the most they will give for the least pay they will take.
In 35 years I've worked for 8 companies and none of them was abusive in this fashion.
Actually, there is a market mechanism for dealing with bad executives. Unfortunately, proxy fights are very difficult.
Organized public campaigns to stop purchase of the company's products can also be effective, sometimes. Publicity like this is the first step in such a campaign. Letters to companies that sell EA products, notifying them that you won't buy there as long as they carry EA, provide a lot of leverage.
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If you read the original slashdot story, you would know that EA commits verbal fraud on new employees. They break the law, but they do so in a manner that makes it difficult to catch them.
The convenience of such units as days and years, and their application to human life, is what makes them not arbitrary . A time unit of, for example, 69.377 days would be arbitrary, inconvenient, and unused.
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Please explain how America was run , even before it was a country, and the terrible industrial policy that made it that way.
There is an issue here. Best health for the newborn is generally achieved when time is allowed for as much blood as possible to drain from the placenta through the umbilical into the newborn. Care must be observed not to shortchange the baby in an attempt to help someone else.
Many liberals are opposed to other people getting rich, and other people being rich. I've spoken to all to many of them.
Humans are by definition rational animals. Brainless cell clumps don't qualify.
Sentient means responding to stimulus. This happens long before birth.
First, your sentence makes no sense. Is the word "either" superfluous? Second, many moral issues must be legal issues. Murder is both immoral and illegal. So are rape and larceny, and properly so.
That said, there is value from the "defense" standpoint - defense against comets colliding with earth. This experiment may give some indication of how much of a shattering effect throwing things at a comet will have.
Whatever nation you were educated in failed at teaching spelling. Six errors.
The mechanical vulnerability of cheap tape systems is just too much of a disadvantage compared to other modern options.
If you sell your services at too low a price, the company will have no incentive to make you an employee.
"The public" as a whole does not benefit from this product - individuals do. Likewise, the public as a whole does not manufacture it, sell it, buy it, repair it, or improve it.
I don't know what the policies of the University of Wisconsin are, but it's likely they'll be getting some royalty payments out of this since they have a patent.
Yes, there is a problem with the state taking money to run schools (except military academies), but objecting to commercial research is unrealistic.
I've had people threaten to make a donation in my name to organizations that I oppose.
Much of civilization and technology would not exist without "interest based financial transactions." Without those transactions, people with money would have no incentive to loan money to people with ideas. So: commercial borrowers like them. So do people with money in savings accounts.
There is some relation between the price of gold and its cost of production. Large increases in the price of gold result in less productive mines being (re)opened, more miners being used in active mines, etc..
Delorean produced a mediocre sports car. (Read reviews in Car & Driver, Road & Track, etc. for details.) He overestimated market demand be a substantial margin (despite being advised that he was wrong) because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to bilk the Irish government for funding.
Nice, but expensive. The stated price is $200-$500 per kW. That's $150-$375 per horsepower, or $15,000 to $37,500 for a 100 horsepower battery.
The value of a dollar bill is ultimately based upon the production of the US economy and the belief that the government won't print too many of them.
Having a life watt-hour meter on the battery does not solve the problem of losing my new, high-value battery when I swap it out for a weak one that is worth less and might not have the capacity to get me home.
FWIW, lumens also take into account the spectral response of the human eye. A light generating 683 lumens per watt would be unpleasant for general use, because all of its output would be yellow-green. The ratio lumens/watt is referred to as efficacy (think effectiveness), not efficiency.
Where I live, electricity is 12 cents/kWh. A 100 W drain is $105 a year. Where I sit, I use the equivalent of a 100 W incandescent 12 hours a day. That's $52 a year with incandescent, $13 a year with fluorescent, $6.50 a year with LEDs. The time value of money can't catch up with savings like this.
40 hour workweeks are the product of market forces and the success of the industrial revolution. The effect of unions is to introduce violence and threats of violence into the workplace.
In 35 years I've worked for 8 companies and none of them was abusive in this fashion.
Organized public campaigns to stop purchase of the company's products can also be effective, sometimes. Publicity like this is the first step in such a campaign. Letters to companies that sell EA products, notifying them that you won't buy there as long as they carry EA, provide a lot of leverage.
If you read the original slashdot story, you would know that EA commits verbal fraud on new employees. They break the law, but they do so in a manner that makes it difficult to catch them.
The convenience of such units as days and years, and their application to human life, is what makes them not arbitrary . A time unit of, for example, 69.377 days would be arbitrary, inconvenient, and unused.