Getting rich in elective office requires that your office have enough power to sway laws in economically effective ways. That limits them to President, US Senators, US Representatives, many governors, some state senators and state representatives (or equivalent offices) and mayors of cities in proportion to their size. By influencing laws and the enforcement of regulations they either gain through scams like Gore's carbon credits or bribery. They are also open to bribes in making appointments.
Bribes can take the direct form of money, sex, property, or other gifts, or the indirect form of promises of do-nothing jobs after they leave office, or offering do-nothing jobs to family members (like Chelsea Clinton at NBC or Michelle Obama at a hospital in Illinois).
In matters of exchange, justice is paying for what you get and getting what you pay for. Al Gore has beyond any possible doubt not provided any technical, organizational, business, or marketing expertise of any value to Apple. If legitimate guidance is what Gore is being paid for as a board member, it's not just.
So what is Gore's value as an Apple board member? Gore is politically connected, and his presence on the Apple board is a threat to Apple's competitors, an implicit promise that competitors of Apple can expect trouble from the government.
It's hard to tell from the photos, but it looks like there are two well-wrapped and addressed boxes held together with strong tape. These 2 boxes are inside a third box and the surplus empty space filled with crumpled paper - adequate, but not good if it's at the bottom of a pile of heavy boxes. The flaw was wrapping the outer box in brown wrapping paper with an address label stuck on. It doesn't take much to tear off the wrapping paper, and that's how he got the first letter from the USPS with the label on a torn piece of wrapping paper.
It looks like there's an address label on the third box, and that should have been enough to get the package delivered. Perhaps it wasn't because the postage was on the wrapping paper label and not the third box label.
Making paper the outer layer of your shipment is not the smart thing to do.
It's not quite that simple. Outside the US, governments pressure medicine suppliers to lower prices by threatening not to honor patents, so either the suppliers lower prices or competitors enter the field. In the US, the patents are honored, and the suppliers lobby or bribe legislators and bribe the FDA to keep generics unapproved.
A knowledgeable consumer who can afford to go to a place with low medicine prices can profit thereby. Getting low medicine prices generally in the US will require large and sustained political pressure.
Heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are in many cases the result of eating too much food and junk food. Chronic lower respiratory diseases are mostly from smoking. These are the root causes, not the lack of a theft-funded government heath program.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
It's an ugly and vicious idea; it's an attempt to enslave the competent to provide for those willing to fake disability. It's an inverted morality, where pus-filled sores become a mortgage on the lives of decent people.
Good musculature makes an immense difference in everyday life. The spring in your step and the ability to jump out of the way of that self-driving car. The ability to get that 70 pound bag of concrete off the skid and onto your cart, next time you're at Home Depot. Being able to hike up a small mountain and not feel sore the next day. Being able to fend off that jerk who won't stop pestering you.
Intel rest on their laurels as a matter of strategy.
If that's what Intel is doing, it's a stupid strategy. If Intel could produce a processor running at 8 GHz but otherwise identical to an I7-7700K, they could charge $3000 apiece for them and sell as many as they could make. Intel doesn't because it can't; physics and present technology don't allow it.
Reinforcing your point on the value of blue light for the several hours around midday: blue light is refracted more strongly than the longer wavelength portion of the spectrum, so your eye muscles don't work as hard to distort the eye to focus on nearby items if the blue portion of the spectrum is strong enough. Over time, inadequate blue in lighting encourages myopia.
There wouldn't be a song with the refrain "What do you do with a drunken sailor" if the qualifications for armed force membership were the same as for responsible drinking.
Artificial gravity is the force in a spacecraft caused by acceleration, either linear or centripetal, to replace mass-caused force. "Artificial gravity" is a good term to use because it identifies not only the cause but the use.
The force exerted by air on a 14 foot by 14 foot square is 200 tons. That's going to substantially exceed the force required to hold together a space vehicle due to spinning it. Additionally, there's no need to spin up to 1 g; most of the disadvantages of freefall can be removed by a small fraction of a gravity,
The ISS maintains a 14.7 psi atmosphere (surprised me). That requires some structural strength; the additional strength needed to endure the forces caused by rotation are small in comparison.
A tax write-off, when considered with the loss that allows the write-off, does not generate more money for the company than doing nothing. It's not in the company's best interest to act to create tax write-offs.
If a company's ad doesn't work, somebody's been fooled: the ad agency by the network, the company by the ad agency, or someone within the company that has a hidden motive for placing the ad.
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Al Gore will be 76 in 8 years. That's pushing it, even compared to Reagan and Trump at age 70 upon taking office.
If you're married, that's two incomes for slightly increased expenses if you can refrain from knocking up your wife for a few years.
Getting rich in elective office requires that your office have enough power to sway laws in economically effective ways. That limits them to President, US Senators, US Representatives, many governors, some state senators and state representatives (or equivalent offices) and mayors of cities in proportion to their size. By influencing laws and the enforcement of regulations they either gain through scams like Gore's carbon credits or bribery. They are also open to bribes in making appointments.
Bribes can take the direct form of money, sex, property, or other gifts, or the indirect form of promises of do-nothing jobs after they leave office, or offering do-nothing jobs to family members (like Chelsea Clinton at NBC or Michelle Obama at a hospital in Illinois).
In matters of exchange, justice is paying for what you get and getting what you pay for. Al Gore has beyond any possible doubt not provided any technical, organizational, business, or marketing expertise of any value to Apple. If legitimate guidance is what Gore is being paid for as a board member, it's not just.
So what is Gore's value as an Apple board member? Gore is politically connected, and his presence on the Apple board is a threat to Apple's competitors, an implicit promise that competitors of Apple can expect trouble from the government.
"Renumeration Boards" ... chuckle.
I'm certainly not going to pay for this alleged global warming. Every Fahrenheit degree warmer saves me about $30 per year in heating bills.
It's hard to tell from the photos, but it looks like there are two well-wrapped and addressed boxes held together with strong tape. These 2 boxes are inside a third box and the surplus empty space filled with crumpled paper - adequate, but not good if it's at the bottom of a pile of heavy boxes. The flaw was wrapping the outer box in brown wrapping paper with an address label stuck on. It doesn't take much to tear off the wrapping paper, and that's how he got the first letter from the USPS with the label on a torn piece of wrapping paper.
It looks like there's an address label on the third box, and that should have been enough to get the package delivered. Perhaps it wasn't because the postage was on the wrapping paper label and not the third box label.
Making paper the outer layer of your shipment is not the smart thing to do.
http://www.marchofdimes.org/complications/stillbirth.aspx Stillbirths are 1 in 160. That's enough to change life expectancy by half a year.
It's not quite that simple. Outside the US, governments pressure medicine suppliers to lower prices by threatening not to honor patents, so either the suppliers lower prices or competitors enter the field. In the US, the patents are honored, and the suppliers lobby or bribe legislators and bribe the FDA to keep generics unapproved.
A knowledgeable consumer who can afford to go to a place with low medicine prices can profit thereby. Getting low medicine prices generally in the US will require large and sustained political pressure.
This is like a "confidence level", commonly used in statistics.
Heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are in many cases the result of eating too much food and junk food. Chronic lower respiratory diseases are mostly from smoking. These are the root causes, not the lack of a theft-funded government heath program.
No, it's more like Hadrian's Wall or the Great Wall of China. The purpose it to keep out the barbarians.
It's an ugly and vicious idea; it's an attempt to enslave the competent to provide for those willing to fake disability. It's an inverted morality, where pus-filled sores become a mortgage on the lives of decent people.
You've identified the target market for my ketchup centrifuge.
Occasionally, aerosol cans of toothpaste have come on the market. Don't confuse it with shaving creme.
Get a charge in a room with a central metal pole.
Bring on the dancer.
Sean Connery hasn't looked good without makeup and replacement for missing teeth in over a decade.
Good musculature makes an immense difference in everyday life. The spring in your step and the ability to jump out of the way of that self-driving car. The ability to get that 70 pound bag of concrete off the skid and onto your cart, next time you're at Home Depot. Being able to hike up a small mountain and not feel sore the next day. Being able to fend off that jerk who won't stop pestering you.
Strength is a part of health.
D cups are about 2 pounds each. A pot belly is usually more than 20 pounds.
If that's what Intel is doing, it's a stupid strategy. If Intel could produce a processor running at 8 GHz but otherwise identical to an I7-7700K, they could charge $3000 apiece for them and sell as many as they could make. Intel doesn't because it can't; physics and present technology don't allow it.
Reinforcing your point on the value of blue light for the several hours around midday: blue light is refracted more strongly than the longer wavelength portion of the spectrum, so your eye muscles don't work as hard to distort the eye to focus on nearby items if the blue portion of the spectrum is strong enough. Over time, inadequate blue in lighting encourages myopia.
There wouldn't be a song with the refrain "What do you do with a drunken sailor" if the qualifications for armed force membership were the same as for responsible drinking.
Artificial gravity is the force in a spacecraft caused by acceleration, either linear or centripetal, to replace mass-caused force. "Artificial gravity" is a good term to use because it identifies not only the cause but the use.
The force exerted by air on a 14 foot by 14 foot square is 200 tons. That's going to substantially exceed the force required to hold together a space vehicle due to spinning it. Additionally, there's no need to spin up to 1 g; most of the disadvantages of freefall can be removed by a small fraction of a gravity,
The ISS maintains a 14.7 psi atmosphere (surprised me). That requires some structural strength; the additional strength needed to endure the forces caused by rotation are small in comparison.
A tax write-off, when considered with the loss that allows the write-off, does not generate more money for the company than doing nothing. It's not in the company's best interest to act to create tax write-offs.
If a company's ad doesn't work, somebody's been fooled: the ad agency by the network, the company by the ad agency, or someone within the company that has a hidden motive for placing the ad.