The reason Hasselblads (and pro level Leicas, Nikons, and Canons) are expensive is because the shutter and film advance were designed to work reliably for tens of thousands of pictures, and they could be refurbished when necessary. High-end amateur cameras are capable of taking just as high quality pictures. The lenses are every bit as good as pro lenses, but the camera will wear out if used constantly and they were intended to be replaced when worn out. Digital is an entirely different system; adding a digital back to a film camera just doesn't make sense to me.
It's good to see the Department of Labor putting some teeth into labor law again. During the Bush years, too many regulatory agencies were out to lunch.
Really? Is that what the blogosphere told you? Here are the actual numbers, from a GAO presentation to Congress. As you can see on page 8, the number of Fair Labor Standards Act enforcement actions dropped precipitously from 33,000 in 2001 to 35,000 in 2003. Oh wait, that's an increase. The number did decline slowly over the next four years to 29,500 in 2007. But "out to lunch"? Hardly.
There's usually nothing that requires a company to keep the job requirements the same year after year. If the job changes or goes away, the redundant employee no longer has a job. It's in your interest to keep current as the job's responsibilities change (unless of course you work someplace where a union has made it almost impossible for employers to shed nonproductive employees, such as a tenured teaching position or civil service).
On the other hand, if you no longer desire to work for that employer there's nothing to stop you from resigning. They can't force you to continue working there just because they paid for a Cisco Cert.
You're selling something (your skill and time). An employer has the option of buying it or not, you have the option of selling to that employer or not. I don't understand why people have a problem with this type of arrangement.
Yes, playing difficult music requires a lot of concentration. Now have the musician talk on the phone and solve a crossword puzzle while they're playing and see how well they do.
But certainly you did save %99.7 of the energy required to run that report.
Probably not. If you checked the server's power consumption over 24 hours you I doubt you would see much difference whether the report ran in 8 hours, 90 seconds, or wasn't run at all. One could argue that the energy to run that report was zero, because it didn't add anything.
Exactly. I once fixed a report that was running for 8 hours, cut it down to 90 seconds. But no one in their right mind would suggest that saved 99.7% of any energy, because the server was still running when the report was done. Now the other report that crashed the server after I fixed it is a different story...
Private industry will continue to be in, not get into, space related projects when there's money to be made. Communication satellites are a good example, billions of dollars in private investment are being spent on building and launching them. Of course that industry wouldn't have ever been possible if the USA and other governments hadn't developed the technology first.
But exploration and development of new technology are risky with too little chance of ever recovering the investment for private industry. The Obama plan is nothing more than an excuse to shift federal dollars to companies that are friendly to Hope and Change.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a better example of the real reason - it's the bad guy who gets shot.
Lee Marvin (bad guy of course) baits James Stewart (good guy of course) into a gunfight. As Stewart draws his gun, knowing Marvin would win the gunfight, John Wayne (hero of course) shoots Marvin from across the street
Among the dozens of charges the GMC deemed proven against Wakefield are that he provided a research proposal to a lawyer seeking to sue vaccine manufacturers for causing autism.
No, under Obama administration's plan NASA will manage some outsourced projects with the end goal of privatizing space technology. They will not have or develop expertise in house.
This is different from how the administration is throwing money at NIH. They will be funding projects (or, more likely given their history, consuming huge amounts of money while having not a whole lot to show for it). But it's a big first step toward the end goal of crushing private pharmaceutical companies so the government can take over drug development and manufacturing.
So needless to say, neither of these things will ever happen.
You can't compare the two. Government run healthcare is almost unanimously opposed by conservatives. Nuclear energy is generally supported by conservatives and has a fair level of support among liberals. It's much more likely that nuclear energy will happen because there's plenty of room for negotiation and agreement among supporters at both ends of the spectrum.
Back in the "old days" employees organized golf, bowling, softball, or whatever leagues. Even something like a fantasy football league that only meets a few times a year will help people get to know each other.
Not sure what point you were trying to make. Tens of millions of legal immigrants live in the US; in 2008 alone over a million became naturalized citizens.
The whole "but our ancestors worked and fought for it" argument is kinda pointless.
On the other hand, the whole "we are working hard and fighting for it" is relevant. It's completely fair and moral for a country's citizens to have their own culture, government, and economy.
The direction seems pretty clear: If you want an Oracle database, you buy the entire stack in one place - proprietary hardware, compilers, operating system, DBMS. That's the product they will sell.
The rest of Sun will likely disappear within a couple of years
Get rid of bad doctors? Yes. Expect the rest of them to be 100% perfect across millions or billions of procedures a year? Unrealistic.
First and foremost a patient has to be responsible for their own care. If you think something might be wrong, speak up! If you don't trust your doctor, find someone else! If you think you'll get better care in another country, don't hit yourself with the door on the way out!
If you miss the ground you are probably in orbit. Although we say it's weightless when astronauts are in space, actually they're in constant free-fall. They're accelerating toward the Earth, but they're going so fast they keep missing.
Strictly speaking the record will be for highest parachute jump. Assuming he's alive when he jumps he should get the record, even if he lands in several pieces.
Aside from you grossly misstating what the article actually says, the citation you provide makes it clear why Fox viewers are "wrong". Essentially the authors state what (in their opinion) is the correct answer and if you don't agree with their very left wing view of the world then you are wrong.
An in-depth analysis of a series of polls conducted June through September found 48% incorrectly believed that evidence of links between Iraq and al Qaeda have been found, 22% that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and 25% that world public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq. Overall 60% had at least one of these three misperceptions.
There have been plenty of reports that Saddam and Bin Laden had been in contact. Although the contact is now assumed to be minimal, it's a far cry from "Saddam was the brains behind 9/11". And I question whether someone who believes there was no contact is "right".
Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction. He used them to kill thousands of people. None were found after the invasion, but whether a response is right or wrong depends a lot on how the question was phrased. Believing "weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq" is different than Saddam "had loads of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 that we recovered"
Finally, world opinion was mixed to the invasion. Thirty six countries were involved in the invasion so it's hard to claim that "world public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq" is completely wrong. More countries opposed the invasion that supported it, but opinion was at least mixed. Unless of course you get your news from NPR.
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The reason Hasselblads (and pro level Leicas, Nikons, and Canons) are expensive is because the shutter and film advance were designed to work reliably for tens of thousands of pictures, and they could be refurbished when necessary. High-end amateur cameras are capable of taking just as high quality pictures. The lenses are every bit as good as pro lenses, but the camera will wear out if used constantly and they were intended to be replaced when worn out. Digital is an entirely different system; adding a digital back to a film camera just doesn't make sense to me.
It's good to see the Department of Labor putting some teeth into labor law again. During the Bush years, too many regulatory agencies were out to lunch.
Really? Is that what the blogosphere told you? Here are the actual numbers, from a GAO presentation to Congress. As you can see on page 8, the number of Fair Labor Standards Act enforcement actions dropped precipitously from 33,000 in 2001 to 35,000 in 2003. Oh wait, that's an increase. The number did decline slowly over the next four years to 29,500 in 2007. But "out to lunch"? Hardly.
There's usually nothing that requires a company to keep the job requirements the same year after year. If the job changes or goes away, the redundant employee no longer has a job. It's in your interest to keep current as the job's responsibilities change (unless of course you work someplace where a union has made it almost impossible for employers to shed nonproductive employees, such as a tenured teaching position or civil service).
On the other hand, if you no longer desire to work for that employer there's nothing to stop you from resigning. They can't force you to continue working there just because they paid for a Cisco Cert.
You're selling something (your skill and time). An employer has the option of buying it or not, you have the option of selling to that employer or not. I don't understand why people have a problem with this type of arrangement.
Yes, playing difficult music requires a lot of concentration. Now have the musician talk on the phone and solve a crossword puzzle while they're playing and see how well they do.
But certainly you did save %99.7 of the energy required to run that report.
Probably not. If you checked the server's power consumption over 24 hours you I doubt you would see much difference whether the report ran in 8 hours, 90 seconds, or wasn't run at all. One could argue that the energy to run that report was zero, because it didn't add anything.
Exactly. I once fixed a report that was running for 8 hours, cut it down to 90 seconds. But no one in their right mind would suggest that saved 99.7% of any energy, because the server was still running when the report was done. Now the other report that crashed the server after I fixed it is a different story...
... it probably isn't. This guy is a snake oil salesman.
Private industry will continue to be in, not get into, space related projects when there's money to be made. Communication satellites are a good example, billions of dollars in private investment are being spent on building and launching them. Of course that industry wouldn't have ever been possible if the USA and other governments hadn't developed the technology first.
But exploration and development of new technology are risky with too little chance of ever recovering the investment for private industry. The Obama plan is nothing more than an excuse to shift federal dollars to companies that are friendly to Hope and Change.
This is not about not killing any pork. It's about redirecting the pork to districts friendly to the party that controls Congress this session.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a better example of the real reason - it's the bad guy who gets shot. Lee Marvin (bad guy of course) baits James Stewart (good guy of course) into a gunfight. As Stewart draws his gun, knowing Marvin would win the gunfight, John Wayne (hero of course) shoots Marvin from across the street
Blue Origin: A normally secretive team established by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos...
How much does NASA have to send into orbit before they get free shipping?
The debate over the autism link is being stirred by personal injury lawyers, it has nothing to do with science:
Among the dozens of charges the GMC deemed proven against Wakefield are that he provided a research proposal to a lawyer seeking to sue vaccine manufacturers for causing autism.
NASA can concentrate on their roots
No, under Obama administration's plan NASA will manage some outsourced projects with the end goal of privatizing space technology. They will not have or develop expertise in house.
This is different from how the administration is throwing money at NIH. They will be funding projects (or, more likely given their history, consuming huge amounts of money while having not a whole lot to show for it). But it's a big first step toward the end goal of crushing private pharmaceutical companies so the government can take over drug development and manufacturing.
So needless to say, neither of these things will ever happen.
You can't compare the two. Government run healthcare is almost unanimously opposed by conservatives. Nuclear energy is generally supported by conservatives and has a fair level of support among liberals. It's much more likely that nuclear energy will happen because there's plenty of room for negotiation and agreement among supporters at both ends of the spectrum.
Back in the "old days" employees organized golf, bowling, softball, or whatever leagues. Even something like a fantasy football league that only meets a few times a year will help people get to know each other.
Not sure what point you were trying to make. Tens of millions of legal immigrants live in the US; in 2008 alone over a million became naturalized citizens.
The whole "but our ancestors worked and fought for it" argument is kinda pointless.
On the other hand, the whole "we are working hard and fighting for it" is relevant. It's completely fair and moral for a country's citizens to have their own culture, government, and economy.
Now when you're armed you need to wear a watch on your arm to arm your arm.
The direction seems pretty clear: If you want an Oracle database, you buy the entire stack in one place - proprietary hardware, compilers, operating system, DBMS. That's the product they will sell.
The rest of Sun will likely disappear within a couple of years
Get rid of bad doctors? Yes. Expect the rest of them to be 100% perfect across millions or billions of procedures a year? Unrealistic.
First and foremost a patient has to be responsible for their own care. If you think something might be wrong, speak up! If you don't trust your doctor, find someone else! If you think you'll get better care in another country, don't hit yourself with the door on the way out!
I checked several data sets. All appear to be already available. For example:
Interactive Access To National Income and Product Accounts Tables
Dataset Summary
Agency: Department of Commerce
Sub-Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis
Category: Income, Expenditures, Poverty, and Wealth
Date Released: Continuously released since 1934
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If you miss the ground you are probably in orbit. Although we say it's weightless when astronauts are in space, actually they're in constant free-fall. They're accelerating toward the Earth, but they're going so fast they keep missing.
Obligatory Franz Reichelt attempting to fly off the Eiffel Tower reference.
Graphic Video Warning: He does not miss the ground.
Strictly speaking the record will be for highest parachute jump. Assuming he's alive when he jumps he should get the record, even if he lands in several pieces.
Aside from you grossly misstating what the article actually says, the citation you provide makes it clear why Fox viewers are "wrong". Essentially the authors state what (in their opinion) is the correct answer and if you don't agree with their very left wing view of the world then you are wrong.
An in-depth analysis of a series of polls conducted June through September found 48% incorrectly believed that evidence of links between Iraq and al Qaeda have been found, 22% that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and 25% that world public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq. Overall 60% had at least one of these three misperceptions.
There have been plenty of reports that Saddam and Bin Laden had been in contact. Although the contact is now assumed to be minimal, it's a far cry from "Saddam was the brains behind 9/11". And I question whether someone who believes there was no contact is "right".
Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction. He used them to kill thousands of people. None were found after the invasion, but whether a response is right or wrong depends a lot on how the question was phrased. Believing "weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq" is different than Saddam "had loads of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 that we recovered"
Finally, world opinion was mixed to the invasion. Thirty six countries were involved in the invasion so it's hard to claim that "world public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq" is completely wrong. More countries opposed the invasion that supported it, but opinion was at least mixed. Unless of course you get your news from NPR.