Workers are naturally going to minimize the work they must do to maximize their pay
Often true, perhaps usually, but not always. I've had several jobs that I've liked enough that I continued working many extra unpaid hours. I've had tasks within menial jobs that were fun to do as fast as I possibly could. A company that earns a high morale can get a lot of this.
Lets get rid of unions and their ties to organized crime.
If losing a union means a 500% pay cut (impossible, that means paying $4 when previously receiving $1. You perhaps mean receiving $0.2 when previously receiving $1 -- an 80% pay cut) then the old pay was FAR above Free maket rates.
Unions exist to distort the market, enrich the union bosses, violate property rights, and extort by means of threats of violence and murder.
A highway full of automated cars could run with very short car-to-car distances and good safety. Highway capacity could easily triple. And millions of people could commute to work doing something useful/pleasurable rather than cultivating fury and frustration. This could be a very substantial improvement in happiness and civility.
As long as an employer can make a net profit on an employee, that's fine. He has no obligation to pay whatever the employee wants. There must be hundreds of people who can imitate the character voices and who would be willing to work for a fraction of what the present people do. It is the employer's responsibility to make as much money as he honestly can.
Does it take a new trial for a judge to say "You're in contempt of court" for not following the orders resulting from a trial? Can't that result in a small amount of jail time immediately?
All but a few of these people really are ideologically driven
Many, perhaps most, of the major politicians (particularly those who want government to be larger) are driven by power lust and their ideology derives from power lust. It's cause and effect in a positive feedback loop.
But they do violate it by detaining NON-thieves. And they do violate it by insisting on searching MY posessions and MY person. And FALSE arrest is illegal and can be penalized with jail time.
I don't have any children, and I'm old enough that I'm not likely to, ever. Since I've borrowed the earth from my (nonexistent) children, I've created it from nothing! I am God!
Maybe a solar sail could be useful. A 100 square meter solar sail could generate about 0.001 Newton of force (0.000225 pound). A few micromotors are needed to manipulate the sail (furl and unfurl, tilt to get the correct thrust vector and reduce the drag vector). Below some altitude, a solar sail can't overcome the drag, but above that the satellite will be slowly sent wherever we want it --- a LaGrange point, the moon, the asteroid belt, the sun, Jupiter.
I'm not talking about a lot of mass here. This is a large, thin painter's dropcloth with some soda straws for stiffeners.
The option of blowing it up would be OK if the resulting particles were single atoms. Doesn't seem like a practical solution, however.
Nuclear waste handling is a political problem, not a practical one. The knowledge of how to handle the waste well is already available. Conventional power, particularly coal, uses the atmosphere as its primary dumping ground after removing some of the waste with scrubbers. Coal puts more radioactivity into the atmosphere per unit of power generated than the total waste from nuclear power.
When I was a kid (circa 1965) my science teacher said there were 3 forms of carbon: diamond, graphite, and amorphous. Seems like amorphous has gone out of fashion or is too formless to be considered a form. Think soot.
This is the first time I've heard of the "argument with his wife" claim. Digital Research seems to have been a very lax organization; it took them years to update CP/M-80 and there never was a variety optimized for the Z80.
Zilog bears a large part of the blame for the success of the 8086 family. In 1983 the Z80 was the king of the hill for hobbyist computers, but it was years before they provided any improvement other than pitiful speed upgrades. They never produced a Z80 machine-code compatible 16 or 32 bit machine. If they had, you'd be reading "Zilog inside" today.
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Often true, perhaps usually, but not always. I've had several jobs that I've liked enough that I continued working many extra unpaid hours. I've had tasks within menial jobs that were fun to do as fast as I possibly could. A company that earns a high morale can get a lot of this.
Perhaps you mean except the literate?
If losing a union means a 500% pay cut (impossible, that means paying $4 when previously receiving $1. You perhaps mean receiving $0.2 when previously receiving $1 -- an 80% pay cut) then the old pay was FAR above Free maket rates.
Unions exist to distort the market, enrich the union bosses, violate property rights, and extort by means of threats of violence and murder.
If there's someone you trust, get him to sign as a witness.
A highway full of automated cars could run with very short car-to-car distances and good safety. Highway capacity could easily triple. And millions of people could commute to work doing something useful/pleasurable rather than cultivating fury and frustration. This could be a very substantial improvement in happiness and civility.
As long as an employer can make a net profit on an employee, that's fine. He has no obligation to pay whatever the employee wants. There must be hundreds of people who can imitate the character voices and who would be willing to work for a fraction of what the present people do. It is the employer's responsibility to make as much money as he honestly can.
Some caliber. The animation rivals Yogi the Bear.
When I heard of this settlement on CNBC today, the commentator explicitly stated that Sun and Microsoft would be working together against Linux .
Does it take a new trial for a judge to say "You're in contempt of court" for not following the orders resulting from a trial? Can't that result in a small amount of jail time immediately?
Many, perhaps most, of the major politicians (particularly those who want government to be larger) are driven by power lust and their ideology derives from power lust. It's cause and effect in a positive feedback loop.
Unfortunately, in Massachusetts you have the shame of being represented in the Senate by Ted Kennedy.
Does the phrase "non sequitur" mean anything to you?
None of them yet seem bright enough to use clear bags.
I hope you get keyed.
Reasonable suspicion. Presumption of innocence.
Early RISC (for example early SPARC) didn't even have integer multiply!
VLIW seems to have some life in high-throughput DSP. Texas Instruments makes some 8-instructions-at-once DSPs.
I don't have any children, and I'm old enough that I'm not likely to, ever. Since I've borrowed the earth from my (nonexistent) children, I've created it from nothing! I am God!
I'm not talking about a lot of mass here. This is a large, thin painter's dropcloth with some soda straws for stiffeners.
The option of blowing it up would be OK if the resulting particles were single atoms. Doesn't seem like a practical solution, however.
Nuclear waste handling is a political problem, not a practical one. The knowledge of how to handle the waste well is already available. Conventional power, particularly coal, uses the atmosphere as its primary dumping ground after removing some of the waste with scrubbers. Coal puts more radioactivity into the atmosphere per unit of power generated than the total waste from nuclear power.
When I was a kid (circa 1965) my science teacher said there were 3 forms of carbon: diamond, graphite, and amorphous. Seems like amorphous has gone out of fashion or is too formless to be considered a form. Think soot.
They knew the risk and accepted it.
One way is to find step-wise payback points, which should not be too hard. Mars probably can be a useful place to be before it is fully terraformed.
I don't know if this is reasonable, but a solar sail might be an acceptable source of thrust to alter the orbit.
Zilog bears a large part of the blame for the success of the 8086 family. In 1983 the Z80 was the king of the hill for hobbyist computers, but it was years before they provided any improvement other than pitiful speed upgrades. They never produced a Z80 machine-code compatible 16 or 32 bit machine. If they had, you'd be reading "Zilog inside" today.
Codes don't stop Californians from building in temporarily dry riverbeds or on top of sheer cliffs of mud.