Trucks? Electric rail would be more effective. And except for Australia and other island nations, there is no need for "tubes". One rail crossing around egypt and a crazy long bridge crossing the bering strait and your done.
Hell, i recall reading recently of a rail line being built that will cross northern Afghanistan on its way to China.
Consider this then, about the only thing Norwegian about one of the biggest "Norwegian" shipping companies is the guy that owns said company. Everything else is either asian or something similar.
No need to be bought, the production of the rockets are likely to have become a corner stone of the regional economy. As such, anyone wanting to be (re)elected would need to make sure it keeps on going.
Also, it is likely that the area where the factory is located for these boosters have basically hinged all their other activities on the factory running forever. This is something that happens everywhere in the world tho, sadly. I live close to a wharf that have been operating for generations. If it was to close down, it would result in the region loosing a whole lot of income and take on a whole lot of expenses related to the unemployed.
The only way these things can keep on ticking is if they provide perishable commodities to the local community. If they provide non-perishables to internal or external customers, sooner or later they have to change or shut down as their current market is saturated (or change preferences&requirements).
Anyone wanting to be (re)elected under such conditions will make it their primary objective to maintain said production (and by extension, market).
Air travel is mostly automated, with the pilot spending most of the time setting and adjusting the autopilot based on orders from area controllers on the ground (or even just confirming the corrections delivered via data link when crossing something like the pacific).
It could be that what is missing is for software that can reason. So that when it is told to grab something from a shelf, it can work out how to do so using internal simulations and observational data.
As for your employment/tax worry, i agree. Except that right now, China have moved that somewhat backwards as there is a long line of workers willing to work for pennies rather then live the life of subsistence farming. But even there the high water mark is rising, and China is sending out "feelers" to the last source of cheap human labor, Africa.
Thing is, the robotic labor issue may well propel the world into a post-scarcity scenario. That is, if we at the same time adopt local "just in time" production rather then the legacy centralized bulk production we have right now. So that when someone wants a new shirt, a 3d scan is fed into a self contained mini-factory that will cut and construct the shirt from a roll of cloth.
This rather then attempting what sunk soviet russia, and what the multinationals are attempting to a lesser degree, predicting or directing the wants and needs of the population at large and producing to cover those. The multinationals need to have a certain level of predictability for their mass production, and so they employ marketing to direct the wants of the public. Russia attempted to predict the needs via massive data collections and computer models, tho i suspect predicting the weather had better success rate.
It is kinda funny how similar the soviet communist system and the corporate capitalist system is at that level, as both need a level of predictability to function.
And i think the problem there was the cpu involved. Intel at the time didn't have anything that could work for hours without a kilo or more or battery bolted on. ARM can, but everyone claimed they needed x86 to run windows and all those "productivity" apps.
i wonder if not there was several things playing in the ipads favor.
1. the choice of CPU, allowing it to run longer on less battery so you get less weight to handle.
2. a adapted office pack. Once i learned that Apple had a adapted office pack for the ipad, complete with presentation editing, i knew they had something that could get a foothold. Microsoft failed here, as the ms office for tablet back in the day where stonewalled by the exec that ran the office department at the time. End result was that all input had to happen via a popup rather then properly integrated into the ms office ui.
3. a screen that could handle 11 points of input, and a carry case that could fold into a low angle stand. This allowed the user to fold the case around wherever, whenever, and start hammering out a new email, document or anything else in the lap. The angle was around what you find on a physical keyboard, and basically kills the typical "gorilla arm" argument.
Sadly Samsung and the rest have focused on the consumer market. I suspect only RIM have a credible chance at seeing the potential (unless google goes aha and really goes nuts with android 3), but they seem to focused on making their playbook at partner device to the blackberry phones rather then a product with its own "legs".
Right now there is a majority of apps that are only available from android market (at least if you limit yourself to legal sources).
Still, there are a couple of independent app stores in operation. But for some idiotic reason the various device brands insists on creating their own stores rather then back one of the independent ones.
Seems to me that the "once pr day" is as much a case of giving a "advantage" a anything else. So far i have not seen any game using a points buy system where there is loot that can only be gained for points. It will be quicker to get it by spending points yes, but in the end it becomes a trade-off between spending points and spending time. Basically rather then attempt to fight gold farming, its become part of the game.
There is also options open to points that are not to subscription. In a way, points makes official "gold trading", in that one can pay for items that will make it unlikely that some time consuming to gather and make item will break. Note, weapons and armor is not sold that can not be found as loot during ordinary play. All that is sold is stuff that remove time taken for grinding, or that make your character visually special (but give no in-game benefit compared to what one can get playing for free).
Indeed. And it reminds me of how when Einstein first presented his theory of relativity, he had a constant (somewhat like that X) in there to maintain a steady state universe. But soon after new observations favored a expanding universe. So the constant was removed and the theory have been found to be highly accurate since then. So sometimes a X is not added, but removed, because it was put there based on either unreliable data or assumptions by the scientist(s) working on it. Such assumptions show up in various places like psychology, egyptology, economics, and mostly thanks to how the field was bootstrapped.
Well i recall reading how Microsoft in Europe would write sales to their division in Ireland independent of the actual nation the sale happened. This to get the most favorable taxes.
Corporations don't care about liberal or conservative, all they care about is the flow of capital into their shareholder accounts.
It will not surprise me that one see corporate divisions or subsidiaries have a liberal or conservative angle depending on what market they are aiming for.
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if that is your worry, better not post anything online at all.
Trucks? Electric rail would be more effective. And except for Australia and other island nations, there is no need for "tubes". One rail crossing around egypt and a crazy long bridge crossing the bering strait and your done.
Hell, i recall reading recently of a rail line being built that will cross northern Afghanistan on its way to China.
Consider this then, about the only thing Norwegian about one of the biggest "Norwegian" shipping companies is the guy that owns said company. Everything else is either asian or something similar.
Would thorium be more cost effective then what is currently being used?
And i wonder how much of the pollution has to do with these ships running on what is basically the next step up from crude...
No need to be bought, the production of the rockets are likely to have become a corner stone of the regional economy. As such, anyone wanting to be (re)elected would need to make sure it keeps on going.
Also, it is likely that the area where the factory is located for these boosters have basically hinged all their other activities on the factory running forever. This is something that happens everywhere in the world tho, sadly. I live close to a wharf that have been operating for generations. If it was to close down, it would result in the region loosing a whole lot of income and take on a whole lot of expenses related to the unemployed.
The only way these things can keep on ticking is if they provide perishable commodities to the local community. If they provide non-perishables to internal or external customers, sooner or later they have to change or shut down as their current market is saturated (or change preferences&requirements).
Anyone wanting to be (re)elected under such conditions will make it their primary objective to maintain said production (and by extension, market).
Air travel is mostly automated, with the pilot spending most of the time setting and adjusting the autopilot based on orders from area controllers on the ground (or even just confirming the corrections delivered via data link when crossing something like the pacific).
It could be that what is missing is for software that can reason. So that when it is told to grab something from a shelf, it can work out how to do so using internal simulations and observational data.
As for your employment/tax worry, i agree. Except that right now, China have moved that somewhat backwards as there is a long line of workers willing to work for pennies rather then live the life of subsistence farming. But even there the high water mark is rising, and China is sending out "feelers" to the last source of cheap human labor, Africa.
Thing is, the robotic labor issue may well propel the world into a post-scarcity scenario. That is, if we at the same time adopt local "just in time" production rather then the legacy centralized bulk production we have right now. So that when someone wants a new shirt, a 3d scan is fed into a self contained mini-factory that will cut and construct the shirt from a roll of cloth.
This rather then attempting what sunk soviet russia, and what the multinationals are attempting to a lesser degree, predicting or directing the wants and needs of the population at large and producing to cover those. The multinationals need to have a certain level of predictability for their mass production, and so they employ marketing to direct the wants of the public. Russia attempted to predict the needs via massive data collections and computer models, tho i suspect predicting the weather had better success rate.
It is kinda funny how similar the soviet communist system and the corporate capitalist system is at that level, as both need a level of predictability to function.
I would say that a economy that is reliant on transporting people around as air cargo need to be reevaluated.
And i think the problem there was the cpu involved. Intel at the time didn't have anything that could work for hours without a kilo or more or battery bolted on. ARM can, but everyone claimed they needed x86 to run windows and all those "productivity" apps.
i wonder if not there was several things playing in the ipads favor.
1. the choice of CPU, allowing it to run longer on less battery so you get less weight to handle.
2. a adapted office pack. Once i learned that Apple had a adapted office pack for the ipad, complete with presentation editing, i knew they had something that could get a foothold. Microsoft failed here, as the ms office for tablet back in the day where stonewalled by the exec that ran the office department at the time. End result was that all input had to happen via a popup rather then properly integrated into the ms office ui.
3. a screen that could handle 11 points of input, and a carry case that could fold into a low angle stand. This allowed the user to fold the case around wherever, whenever, and start hammering out a new email, document or anything else in the lap. The angle was around what you find on a physical keyboard, and basically kills the typical "gorilla arm" argument.
Sadly Samsung and the rest have focused on the consumer market. I suspect only RIM have a credible chance at seeing the potential (unless google goes aha and really goes nuts with android 3), but they seem to focused on making their playbook at partner device to the blackberry phones rather then a product with its own "legs".
well i'll be, so there is are some economists that are more then spouting memorized lines.
Right now there is a majority of apps that are only available from android market (at least if you limit yourself to legal sources).
Still, there are a couple of independent app stores in operation. But for some idiotic reason the various device brands insists on creating their own stores rather then back one of the independent ones.
Time to teach economists more calculus?
if set up right, daemons and such would be in a different process group.
this basically sums up where the hlobal economy is headed, and i can't see a way for capitalism to dig its way out...
Same resolution on a larger surface would make the individual pixels larger.
net neutrality?
Seems to me that the "once pr day" is as much a case of giving a "advantage" a anything else. So far i have not seen any game using a points buy system where there is loot that can only be gained for points. It will be quicker to get it by spending points yes, but in the end it becomes a trade-off between spending points and spending time. Basically rather then attempt to fight gold farming, its become part of the game.
There is also options open to points that are not to subscription. In a way, points makes official "gold trading", in that one can pay for items that will make it unlikely that some time consuming to gather and make item will break. Note, weapons and armor is not sold that can not be found as loot during ordinary play. All that is sold is stuff that remove time taken for grinding, or that make your character visually special (but give no in-game benefit compared to what one can get playing for free).
Occam's razor?
I guess we can say that when it comes to the universe, perfection is highly overrated.
Indeed. And it reminds me of how when Einstein first presented his theory of relativity, he had a constant (somewhat like that X) in there to maintain a steady state universe. But soon after new observations favored a expanding universe. So the constant was removed and the theory have been found to be highly accurate since then. So sometimes a X is not added, but removed, because it was put there based on either unreliable data or assumptions by the scientist(s) working on it. Such assumptions show up in various places like psychology, egyptology, economics, and mostly thanks to how the field was bootstrapped.
ding ding ding, have a courtesy copy of Das Kapital.
Well i recall reading how Microsoft in Europe would write sales to their division in Ireland independent of the actual nation the sale happened. This to get the most favorable taxes.
Corporations don't care about liberal or conservative, all they care about is the flow of capital into their shareholder accounts.
It will not surprise me that one see corporate divisions or subsidiaries have a liberal or conservative angle depending on what market they are aiming for.