It's called debt slavery. That is exactly the tactic the RIAA and other groups are using. Sure kid you'll be free and clear as soon as you pay off your debt (at 19.5% interest).
When you patent a drug you patent the actual active chemical. The patent clock starts running the day you submit the patent on the drug substance. You then have 20 years to make your money. By the time you have completed all the studies to convince the FDA that the stuff is safe and effective you are generally down to 12 to 14 years to recover your costs (usually in the 1 to 2 Biliion dallar range).
Typically you will also patent any formulation and process that you use to make the finished product, but once the patent runs out on the active ingredient you can be sure that someone will figure out an alternative formulation.
The upshot of all this is that with a drug the patent is on the 500 mg of cipro in that little tablet. Definativly, this has mass.
So basicly what you are saying is that IP piracy is good for nations with weak economies.
The Founding Fathers of the US (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, etc.) agreed with this analysis. That's why the US now has a strong economy.
The GPL is a response to Intellectual Property laws. Essentially it's turning the IP laws on their heads. Countries without IP laws don't NEED the GPL.
Actually, IT is a buisiness tool like anything else. If you are running a small buisiness with a limited inventory, you might be able to get by with a cigar box to put the cash into. Before I get flamed to death, I know of two small buisinesses that were run like that in the last two years.
The point is, all componenents of a buisiness should be carefully and continuously evaluated in terms of value to the buisiness before they are implemented. Bad solutions are usually the result of politicking, and poor evaluations.
Cushy jobs are bad for buisiness. So is overpriced software.
Oh goody! We can make things that are abundant artificially scarce an waste money on them. That will lead to a sane allocation of resources.
Maybe we should develop the internet economy based on intrinsic value, not gimmickry. Scarce things should be expensive, common things should be cheap. If you make common things expensive, you just waste scarce resources, like time.
Estimates for tidal lock with the moon (not the sun) are in the multiple tens of billions of years range. Estimates for the radius of the sun to exceed that of the Earths orbit (vaporization makes me sooo angry!!!) are in the five billion year range.
The earth will never experience tidal lock with the moon or the sun.
Sadly, yes.
I have actually been told by a fellow chemist not to use mmoles in calculations because people don't understand them.
BTW a chemist SHOULD understand the fine points of quantum mechanics. It's called Physical Chemistry, and is required for graduation.
I am unsure of your level of mechanical skill but here are a couple of things I might try to make a plastic sphere. If you decide to cast it,you might try using an oven or,better yet, a water/steam jacketed vessel to control the temprature. Just be sure to have it well ventilated and a fire extinguisher handy, plastic will burn. It might be easier to take a chunk of plastic and turn it down on a lathe. You can get a good optical finish by using automotive grade sandpapers up to ~20,000 grit. This assumes you have a lathe and know how to use it. You can get a chunk of plastic from a supply house for big $$$.
Some details are missing. Was it regular crude oil (a complex mixture that includes some surfactants), if not were there any hydrophillic groups in the molecule (most surfactants include one hydrophobic group and one hydrophillic group), was the water distilled, deionized, salt, or tap?
How much water was used and how much oil?
At what temprature was this experiment done?
You know, all the stuff needed to repeat the experiment.
I have an old console TV. When that breaks down I'll probably buy HDTV, but, I don't expect it to break down for another 10 years. By then HDTVs should be selling for a reasonable price.
Uhm, sorry, but I stuffed the foootball player into my locker when he tried that. My family had a resturaunt that I worked at after school, on weekends, and vacation. The lack of sleep made me irritable. Sorry.
wait a minute... i have to take responsibility because the football team stuffed me into a locker? that sort of "blaming the victim" mentatlity has lead to some serious backlash [disastercenter.com] in the past.
Nothing is "safe". You can be killed in various way by the following:
Chemistry involving dyes(ANALINE-carcinogen, check the MSDS), optics, visual effects(Ok this can be safe if you use a low power light source), material science and metallurgy (electroplating, for example)(NO WAY! CYANIDE solutions are quite deadly! And the strong acids used for pickling in combination with the cyanide...
NaCN(solid) + H+->Na+ + HCN(gas)
side effect include immediate death) is no more difficult and much safer. Making stuff like this can't indulge your inner pyromanic like a bomb can. I'm not trying to criticize teenage boys for wanting to cause some damage - I certainly did - but it worries me.
Lets face it, natural science involves the ability to work safely with deadly things.
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It's called debt slavery. That is exactly the tactic the RIAA and other groups are using. Sure kid you'll be free and clear as soon as you pay off your debt (at 19.5% interest).
When you patent a drug you patent the actual active chemical. The patent clock starts running the day you submit the patent on the drug substance. You then have 20 years to make your money. By the time you have completed all the studies to convince the FDA that the stuff is safe and effective you are generally down to 12 to 14 years to recover your costs (usually in the 1 to 2 Biliion dallar range). Typically you will also patent any formulation and process that you use to make the finished product, but once the patent runs out on the active ingredient you can be sure that someone will figure out an alternative formulation. The upshot of all this is that with a drug the patent is on the 500 mg of cipro in that little tablet. Definativly, this has mass.
Ahh the advantages of a food service buisiness. BUM stew anyone...
So basicly what you are saying is that IP piracy is good for nations with weak economies. The Founding Fathers of the US (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, etc.) agreed with this analysis. That's why the US now has a strong economy.
The GPL is a response to Intellectual Property laws. Essentially it's turning the IP laws on their heads. Countries without IP laws don't NEED the GPL.
Actually, IT is a buisiness tool like anything else. If you are running a small buisiness with a limited inventory, you might be able to get by with a cigar box to put the cash into. Before I get flamed to death, I know of two small buisinesses that were run like that in the last two years.
The point is, all componenents of a buisiness should be carefully and continuously evaluated in terms of value to the buisiness before they are implemented. Bad solutions are usually the result of politicking, and poor evaluations.
Cushy jobs are bad for buisiness. So is overpriced software.
Don't speak of what you don't understand. More Christians have been martyred in the 20th century than in the first 400 years.
I agree. The only thing it does do is force the support of many different formats that do the smae thing, many of them sub-optimaly.
Oh goody! We can make things that are abundant artificially scarce an waste money on them. That will lead to a sane allocation of resources.
Maybe we should develop the internet economy based on intrinsic value, not gimmickry. Scarce things should be expensive, common things should be cheap. If you make common things expensive, you just waste scarce resources, like time.
No, but you can with Linux. Or you can download it for free (as in beer).
From the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 68th Edition, 1987-1988.
s un/compos ition.html
Mass of the Earth=5.9742E24 Kg (pg F-125)
Mass of the Sun =1.9831357E30 Kg (pg F-133)
(Google Search)
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Compostion of the Sun Number% - Mass%
Hydrogen 92.0% - 73.4%
Helium 7.8% - 25.0%
Everything Else 0.2% - 1.6%
From the above there is (using the mass% in calculations):
3.1730171E28 Kg of Everything Else in the Sun, which is 5311 times the mass of the Earth.
So roughly speaking the Sun has 5300 times as much U235 as the Earth.
Estimates for tidal lock with the moon (not the sun) are in the multiple tens of billions of years range. Estimates for the radius of the sun to exceed that of the Earths orbit (vaporization makes me sooo angry!!!) are in the five billion year range. The earth will never experience tidal lock with the moon or the sun.
Sadly, yes. I have actually been told by a fellow chemist not to use mmoles in calculations because people don't understand them. BTW a chemist SHOULD understand the fine points of quantum mechanics. It's called Physical Chemistry, and is required for graduation.
I'm not sure this would work without some sort of stabilization system. The light pressure on the aluminized mylar would tend to blow it out of orbit.
I am unsure of your level of mechanical skill but here are a couple of things I might try to make a plastic sphere.
If you decide to cast it,you might try using an oven or,better yet, a water/steam jacketed vessel to control the temprature. Just be sure to have it well ventilated and a fire extinguisher handy, plastic will burn.
It might be easier to take a chunk of plastic and turn it down on a lathe. You can get a good optical finish by using automotive grade sandpapers up to ~20,000 grit. This assumes you have a lathe and know how to use it. You can get a chunk of plastic from a supply house for big $$$.
What's your band. I'll buy your music (unless it's Rap or Disco).
So basicly what you are saying is that Software Engineering is a mass production process, and sotware craftsmanship is an artistic process.
Red Hat 7.1 with Star Office 6.0 is pretty good.
Some details are missing. Was it regular crude oil (a complex mixture that includes some surfactants), if not were there any hydrophillic groups in the molecule (most surfactants include one hydrophobic group and one hydrophillic group), was the water distilled, deionized, salt, or tap?
How much water was used and how much oil?
At what temprature was this experiment done?
You know, all the stuff needed to repeat the experiment.
I have an old console TV. When that breaks down I'll probably buy HDTV, but, I don't expect it to break down for another 10 years. By then HDTVs should be selling for a reasonable price.
Uhm, sorry, but I stuffed the foootball player into my locker when he tried that. My family had a resturaunt that I worked at after school, on weekends, and vacation. The lack of sleep made me irritable. Sorry.
wait a minute... i have to take responsibility because the football team stuffed me into a locker? that sort of "blaming the victim" mentatlity has lead to some serious backlash [disastercenter.com] in the past.
Well, the power of linux is in its command line, I believe there should all the work go. I feel linux is going in a totally wrong direction.
Well, the power of linux is in its command line, I believe there should all the work go. I feel linux is going in a totally wrong direction.
Basicly this is a shakedown. Consult with a lawyer. You may have some recourse under the RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law.
Nothing is "safe". You can be killed in various way by the following: Chemistry involving dyes(ANALINE-carcinogen, check the MSDS), optics, visual effects(Ok this can be safe if you use a low power light source), material science and metallurgy (electroplating, for example)(NO WAY! CYANIDE solutions are quite deadly! And the strong acids used for pickling in combination with the cyanide... NaCN(solid) + H+->Na+ + HCN(gas) side effect include immediate death) is no more difficult and much safer. Making stuff like this can't indulge your inner pyromanic like a bomb can. I'm not trying to criticize teenage boys for wanting to cause some damage - I certainly did - but it worries me. Lets face it, natural science involves the ability to work safely with deadly things.