Yeah myaybe it's a bad battle to pick, but I won't accept a false premise and argue about something like this on the details. It would be like arguing against a proposal to knife someone by saying it would be better to shoot them.
What the fuck happened to the concept of limited government? 50+ comments on here, and not one asking what business is it of government to make people's decisions for them? I understand that/. tilts way to the left, but a total lack of outrage or even acknowledgment of the underlying problem here is just depressing.
Where do you see that? I only saw on their website that there are using a wavelength "higher than 1400 nm". I'm guessing that means somewhere between 1550 and 1400, which I do not believe the eye (other than the retina!) is opaque to that wavelength. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Imagine a wireless power distribution network similar to cell networks. Almost everywhere you go, all of your devices can be powered. No recharging, almost no need for batteries. Imagine if you could run your car on wireless power. No need for gasoline, and no need for expensive and heavy batteries. Imagine running a plane on wireless power.
Of course none of the above is remotely feasible in the near future (maybe ever), but now maybe you understand why people are so eager to find a true wireless electricity system.
Well I did get that call (and that announcement was not twittered). But I certainly wasn't going to get a call every 30 minutes or an hour saying "still no baby but she's doing fine", which I could follow via twitter.
The first and only time I used Twitter was to get updates from my brother in the days (and hours) leading up to the birth of his first child. It was great, since he could just send one message and everyone in our family who wanted to follow it could.
Sorry, I was being lax. The loss is closer to the difference in labor costs between the big 3 and manufacturers like Toyota, not the total cost. When the actual cost of an hour of labor is almost 2.5 times the wage the laborer is getting, there's a problem. A problem which is now my problem, since I'm now supposed to pay for untenable union contracts.
Just want to point out, the capitalism is not the problem, as you initially hinted at. This mutated economic system that we're pretending is capitalism the problem, as you said later in the post.
Yep that's about the loss per car the big 3 have been having for the past couple years. I agree with you that the cost of the labor is what is sinking them.
OK since I'm a nerd I did some off-the-cuff, very approximate calculations. Say the total water consumption by living creatures is equivalent to 100 billion humans, who each consume a gallon a day, and have been doing so for a billion years. That gives (100 billion humans)*(1 billion years)*(1 gallon/human/day)*(365 days/year) = 3.65*10^16 gallons consumed. Compare this to the 3.26*10^17 gallons of water on the Earth.
Given how wildly inaccurate I'm sure my assumptions are, I guess this doesn't really prove anything (other than that I'm a nerd). I was hoping there'd be like four order's of magnitude difference one way or the other.
So which is cheaper for the universities, pay lawyers to get a judge to decide the notices as not valid, or just pay the extra employee(s) to police the campus in place of the RIAA? I'm guessing the latter.
Of course the third (and most expensive) option is to pay off the legislators, as I'm sure the RIAA did.
As the other poster mentioned, they would repel each other, but that's not really the end of the answer. If they could be brought close enough together (which they certainly could), they still wouldn't annihilate, because of conservation laws. For one, charge would not be conserved (two positive charges would disappear). Lepton number conservation (think number of electrons conserved) and baryon number conservation (think number of protons conserved) would also be violated. It's for these same sort of conservation laws that negative electrons don't annihilate with positive protons all the time.
You really don't see the difference between a draft in a time of national emergency, where our very existence may be in jeopardy, versus forcing people into civil service just because?
I don't think the police would care one way or the other. And I don't think you insurance would care either, other than a likely (small) discount for having a third-party monitoring system.
What are the odds the average burglar will (a) realize you have a hackable home security system, and (b) actually hack it. The point isn't to make your home 100% impregnable, just make it harder/less likely to get hit. If you can stop 19/20 robberies, that's pretty good.
The mass of the moon is ~7*10^22 kg (70 billion trillion kg). The mass of the Saturn V rocket is about 3 million kg. If we sent up a Saturn V rocket for every man, woman, and child on the planet, we wouldn't even be close to an appreciable fraction of a percent of the moon's mass. And even if we were, it is a stable system so there wouldn't be any significant effect.
Seems to me that article can be summed up by saying that the federal government was pretty fiscally conservative in Clinton's terms. The thing is, the federal government was fiscally conservative because of Newt Gingrich, the Republican Congress, and the Contract with America. Clinton himself was far from a fiscal conservative.
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Yeah myaybe it's a bad battle to pick, but I won't accept a false premise and argue about something like this on the details. It would be like arguing against a proposal to knife someone by saying it would be better to shoot them.
What the fuck happened to the concept of limited government? 50+ comments on here, and not one asking what business is it of government to make people's decisions for them? I understand that /. tilts way to the left, but a total lack of outrage or even acknowledgment of the underlying problem here is just depressing.
They'll start putting a lot more energy into demanding money/health care/jobs from the government.
Fixed that for you.
Where do you see that? I only saw on their website that there are using a wavelength "higher than 1400 nm". I'm guessing that means somewhere between 1550 and 1400, which I do not believe the eye (other than the retina!) is opaque to that wavelength. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Imagine a wireless power distribution network similar to cell networks. Almost everywhere you go, all of your devices can be powered. No recharging, almost no need for batteries. Imagine if you could run your car on wireless power. No need for gasoline, and no need for expensive and heavy batteries. Imagine running a plane on wireless power.
Of course none of the above is remotely feasible in the near future (maybe ever), but now maybe you understand why people are so eager to find a true wireless electricity system.
Well I did get that call (and that announcement was not twittered). But I certainly wasn't going to get a call every 30 minutes or an hour saying "still no baby but she's doing fine", which I could follow via twitter.
The first and only time I used Twitter was to get updates from my brother in the days (and hours) leading up to the birth of his first child. It was great, since he could just send one message and everyone in our family who wanted to follow it could.
Actually experimental evidence of an atomic theory could have been observed millennia ago
Sorry, I was being lax. The loss is closer to the difference in labor costs between the big 3 and manufacturers like Toyota, not the total cost. When the actual cost of an hour of labor is almost 2.5 times the wage the laborer is getting, there's a problem. A problem which is now my problem, since I'm now supposed to pay for untenable union contracts.
Just want to point out, the capitalism is not the problem, as you initially hinted at. This mutated economic system that we're pretending is capitalism the problem, as you said later in the post.
Yep that's about the loss per car the big 3 have been having for the past couple years. I agree with you that the cost of the labor is what is sinking them.
Shor's algorithm (explicitly mentioned in the summary) is an old quantum algorithm to factor primes.
OK since I'm a nerd I did some off-the-cuff, very approximate calculations. Say the total water consumption by living creatures is equivalent to 100 billion humans, who each consume a gallon a day, and have been doing so for a billion years. That gives (100 billion humans)*(1 billion years)*(1 gallon/human/day)*(365 days/year) = 3.65*10^16 gallons consumed. Compare this to the 3.26*10^17 gallons of water on the Earth.
Given how wildly inaccurate I'm sure my assumptions are, I guess this doesn't really prove anything (other than that I'm a nerd). I was hoping there'd be like four order's of magnitude difference one way or the other.
it's not my right to decide what you do w/ gods creations
When does it become your right to decide that? Or do you think it's OK if someone gets bored with their 6 year old kid and kills him?
$1 billion/300 million = $3.
Yay.
So which is cheaper for the universities, pay lawyers to get a judge to decide the notices as not valid, or just pay the extra employee(s) to police the campus in place of the RIAA? I'm guessing the latter.
Of course the third (and most expensive) option is to pay off the legislators, as I'm sure the RIAA did.
As the other poster mentioned, they would repel each other, but that's not really the end of the answer. If they could be brought close enough together (which they certainly could), they still wouldn't annihilate, because of conservation laws. For one, charge would not be conserved (two positive charges would disappear). Lepton number conservation (think number of electrons conserved) and baryon number conservation (think number of protons conserved) would also be violated. It's for these same sort of conservation laws that negative electrons don't annihilate with positive protons all the time.
You really don't see the difference between a draft in a time of national emergency, where our very existence may be in jeopardy, versus forcing people into civil service just because?
I don't think the police would care one way or the other. And I don't think you insurance would care either, other than a likely (small) discount for having a third-party monitoring system.
What are the odds the average burglar will (a) realize you have a hackable home security system, and (b) actually hack it. The point isn't to make your home 100% impregnable, just make it harder/less likely to get hit. If you can stop 19/20 robberies, that's pretty good.
So is silicon, at for infrared wavelengths.
You don't want to burden your own family with your medical costs, but you're willing to burden every other taxpayer in the country?
A lot.
The mass of the moon is ~7*10^22 kg (70 billion trillion kg). The mass of the Saturn V rocket is about 3 million kg. If we sent up a Saturn V rocket for every man, woman, and child on the planet, we wouldn't even be close to an appreciable fraction of a percent of the moon's mass. And even if we were, it is a stable system so there wouldn't be any significant effect.
Chinese media writing the news before it happens can be compared with US media writing the news before it happens.
No it can't, because the state doesn't own the media in the US.
Seems to me that article can be summed up by saying that the federal government was pretty fiscally conservative in Clinton's terms. The thing is, the federal government was fiscally conservative because of Newt Gingrich, the Republican Congress, and the Contract with America. Clinton himself was far from a fiscal conservative.