Sorry but this just isn't so on the Depressions having started because of "Trade Wars." The famous "Smoot-Hawley" Tariff which was supposed by those who argue this trash to have caused the Depression of the 1930's starting per Wall Street Oct 29, 1929 has a problem.
"For a complete myth, it is astounding how much this one gets repeated. Sharp observers have probably already noticed there is a problem with dates. The stock market crashed in October, 1929, but Hoover did not sign the tariff into law until June 17, 1930. So more sophisticated conservatives have refined the story: the tariff turned an otherwise ordinary recession into a full-blown depression. But even this is a gross exaggeration, and top economists reject it out of hand. Peter Temin, an economic historian at MIT, told The Wall Street Journal on February 22, 1996 that this historical revisionism is "wrong," according to the consensus of the nation's most respected economists. Paul Krugman, one of the world's top international trade economists, and one who is expected to win a Nobel Prize for his revolutionary theories in favor of free trade, calls the Smoot-Hawley theory "incredible."
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You have to believe in TIME TRAVEL to believe in that crap!
What is more the argument is entirely ignorant of the facts! We are in a "Trade War." One Government is placing a tariff on the goods and services of America causing them to have to be marked up about 150% while all other parties pay no such taxes. This Government is the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and it is doing so encouraged by fools who claim that trade deals such as NAFTA and GATT which set up this condition are good for trade. Frankly they are wiping American Trade from the whole world! In addition they are driving the entire world into a depression and have set up much of the cause conditions that have us in the "War on Terror" as these desperate people around the world are finding US Trade Policies are collapsing their economies while causing them to have to pay US Costs of Living. I know! I saw this in 1996 in the Philippines and came back knowing a war was coming from what I saw there.
Regards to the speculation on democracy failing I noted some time back that as people got more and more ignorant of reality they might just legislate farming out of business because it was dirty. Shockingly they have done worse and your arguments are what did it! They have quite literally legislated making a profit in the USA to be ILLEGAL! Right now if you earn for your employer more than 2.5 Times the cost of freight to import your product or service he makes a profit by Exporting your JOB because of thes ignorant trade deals. That has made it illegal for an American to actually earn money for his employer
Regards the Political Fallout on Steel Tariffs and the EU, these IGNORANT Deals violated the most basic provision of the US Constitution which was that all States must give Full faith and Credit to the Rulings of other States. The GATT through the WTO was given the right to overrule State and Federal Laws. The WTO power arises from this. It violates the very basis of free trade in that no person wanting free trade can expect that he sets the rules for all sides of that trade. That local laws are to be respected. The fact of local laws being respected does not mean that they should not apply to all parties trading locally as with the GATT this principal does not exist.
The reality is I am for FREE TRADE! I love my Free Trade with other US States. If you back Free trade tell those who want it to JOIN THE UNION!
A friend of mine observed in a pithy moment that the USA was in Startrek terms "The Borg." ~"Prepair to be assimilated Resistance is futile." (He and I are US Citizens) This was in response to the observation that the US Government was doing to us things it would not allow to be done to the people from other nations. He noted that they no longer care about us, We have been assimilated!
I have noted to some of my non US friends that I am very concerned with what is occuring here and frankly it should begin to scare them as well. It is as Thomas Jefferson noted, that if Americans ever lost their dedication to personal liberty and their caring for their fellow man, they would build a new Roman Empire --- Worse than the first.
I have seen officials of the US Government well before 9/11 and even before the Bush Admin(43) stating that "We are the new Roman Empire" something I hate with a passion. I have no desire of Empire and I see it as Anti-American as it can be.
I am sure that people advertizing anywhere need to be most careful about the presentation techniques. I do believe that the real issue here is access to this information. It is probable that we need some legislation that regulates the way that this information is made available so that anyone can obtain the strategy data for Search Engine Listings and buy accordingly. This is not intended to regulate how but to regulate that it be told how to do this. Otherwise the selling of space on a search engine is always a crapshot and may actually constitute fraud by the search engine if they advertize a service and deliver otherwise.
This problem of listing serices playing games is pretty old and always seems to be a problem. I think we come to accept it when kids in school get set down by the Alphabet of their last names and called first by A etc.
If we don't find a better way to handle this shortly, there are going to be real problems for those who get listed last by names etc. They may even have a case in that why should a listor get the last listing if the index factors are last by some factor the listor cannot control.
The best solution is probably to emit sperious RFID data in response to the scan. It would be pretty simple to record a chorus of such data and then emit it randomly as a jamming signal. You could for example record the RFID from someone else and then emit his signatures. Funny though this might actually be a means to evade the law and their system of data collection.
Imagine someone being arrested because we tracked his RFID tagged Keys and ID Cards around as crimes were comitted and we have video of what appears to be him doing the deeds but actually it was all spoofing and someone else did the dirty deeds.
Actually you point out a curious fact and you didn't even know it. The enforcement mechanisms were present. The enforcers were busy chasing other objectives.
The point is that such data is NEVER used for the stated purposes. It always gets used for other things. The stated purpose gets ignored indefinitely. I remember the USA on 2000 (New Years Eve) was worried to death about Al Qaeda terrorists. It demanded a 5 Billion supplemental to track them down and deal with them.
On 9/11/2001 according to official testimony only 42 persons in FBI and CIA were even tracking the Al Qaeda types. $5 Billion leaves a slightly larger footprint than that. Bluntly they went on to something else with the money.
Suspicion of the Government by the Citizens should be Axiomatic. It isn't Paranoia it is rational. Insane behavior would be to trust them. This isn't hostile it is just the nature of the beast.
The DARPA work isn't hardly as advanced as might be thought. It is none-the-less a system which is engineered to do anything but deal with the terrorists. This is an excuse to avoid HUMINT and avoid listening to actual problems.
The instances we see on TV of Children being recovered etc via Video Cameras etc are not Government Cameras. They are private Cameras. They were only used after a problem was discovered which is the only way such data should be used. The intrinsic problem with the Government maintaining this data is that it will be searched for "problems" rather than simply supporting the handling of a Known Problem. This goes to the heart of the US Constitution which says "No warrant shall issue without Probable Cause." To look mechanically and automatically for all "violations" finds accidents it does not find injuries. Such have no "Probable Cause" in them.
The EU guys will not understand this as they have always lived in a society where you had to get permission to do anything. You had no real rights only permits. The founders of the USA so opposed such a concept that they ran it out of our land on a rail. The return of it is the return to what brought on the Dark Ages. (Something the EU guys might know a about)
The actual failures in the 9/11 incidents involve the 20 or so times that the US Citizens confronted these guys and said here is a problem only to have the US Government Types ignore them. This is like the guy at the Crop Dusting Service calling the FBI about Arabic guys who wanted to know what was obviously terrorist uses for such aircraft. He reported it. They guys should by law have been busted and deported as "Undesirable Aliens." But then we had "Probable Cause" on them by this time and naturally the FBI doesn't pay attention to that. It isn't a Sting! It isn't High Tech. It isn't sexy. It is just doing your job! (Hint to the the FBI)
DARPA is full of some really bright nice people but there are some of them who view technology as a substitute for actually dealing with PEOPLE. This is the problem. But then its a lot more fun to shoot people by remote control or catch them by computer than to admit somebody aught to pay attention and be expected to do their job. DARPA is generally a pretty good team.
All we will get out of their infinite data system after the next attack is a really good record of what happened. Remember we have video of the 9/11 guys buying the box cutters. We have video of them getting on the plane. We have nearly a perfect record already. We even had a record of their trade and movements before hand. So when they bury you in your grave after the terrorist attack we will have billions of bits of data telling exactly how you died.... Nothing will have been done about the systematic disrespect of Citizens or Citizenship which had either been respected the attack would never have happened.
The better system you talk about would consist of a respect of Citizenship and a demand for it. If we had done so at least 20 times prior to 9/11 the guys would have been out of here. Thinking that it is anythi
This is really pretty simple to understand if you have a memory. Bluntly the Internet was nearly impossible for China to control. They feared its open communication and told companies like M$ that if they didn't make devices to do this horrid spying they would keep the Internet out of the country. So M$ did it. This wasn't a case of just doing softare that got misappropriated. This was design to purpose software for no other use.
This Report of Western Techies going to India is a LIE. It is ILLEGAL to take a job this way in India. Sorry but India will not tolerate it. This gives the Lie to "GLOBAL MARKETS" and to the whole "Free Trade" thing.
The Reality is that we accept more amd more "evidence" in courts of law that is actually a fiction and less and less of fact. It unfortunately is a FACT that the only evidence we have left anymore is the testimony of a person. Any Charts or "Evidence" is layered in so many layers of "Opinion" and subject to so many layers of fabrication that any juror who accepts the other stuff is taking quite a risk well above that inherent to testimony.
Genetic data for example only proves that the genes are present and suggests that the person was present. It is subject at so many layers to be faked or errored that accepting it as fact for conviction is unreasonable.
Any person who accepts for conviction of another "Picture" or "Video" evidence is too trusting.
AMEN! Now if any person in Utah Reelects this violator of their rights, they deserve the tyrant they get! Note this might just apply up the food chain a bit!
RFID will last about as long as the counterfitting of it does not get wide spread. I expect that as RFID Tags get going the spoofing of them will get going as well
Even if the RFID tag has authentication coding with all sorts of other tricks, it can and rapidly will be counterfitted. The counterfitting will include such things as people attaching counterfit tags to reduce the price of items as well as spoofing quantities
RFID will be subject to all sorts of other problems such as false charging of accounts etc. "Well the System doesn't lie! You checked that out here last week and we charged your card..." The limits of spoofing or misrepresentations of RFID are probably quite endless. Any Security system can and will rapidly fail. Suppose you use 1024 Bit encryption Elipical Curve Security on the RF Transmission you still suffer from Intercepts and from shielding and false tagging issues.
In a warehouse situation where the operators have good oversight and where there is little incentive to steal, this works well. Let it get out into the real world handling real money and around real thieves and it will become a mechanism for accelerated thieft.
Suppose you are a Wal-Mart and you get all the items in which have good RFID tags. You take inventory by a routine whole store querry code. You hear back from your items as always. But they walked out the door a day ago all checked right past your video covered checkers because they checked as different items because of counterfit tags etc. I know it is all perfectly safe like your e transfered cash at the bank...????!!! (NOT)
This will become the stuff of legendary levels of hijack and stealing. All of which will be hidden carefully by the companies because they will be terrified to admit that their system leaks just like bankers do right now!
The incidence of such thieft is pretty high in banking and rest assured that counterfit RFID Tags will probably be on the black market before they are actually installed in real working uses on a regular basis.
The process actually has many advantages for the Military and for civilians. But first people have to quit viewing hydrogen as a fuel and see it more like a battery that they charge up. It is not a Energy Source. It is an Energy Storage Media.
Working on such research myself for the USAF *yes military* I have learned a lot about what is going on. The process and demand for such changes is not exactly like what the media tend to report.
The reason we burn gasoline etc is to provide the Heat Catalyzed Hydrogen for conversion to Steam when reacted with Oxygen. While the carbon provides some energy it is really for running a Steam Engine. This cycle is limited thermally to about 38% efficient of the original energy in the steam. This is functionally further limited by other factors leaving current petrol engines about 25% to 28% efficient thermally.
The process for Cracking Hydrogen from fuel uses about 25% of the gross energy entering the process. Then the process of running a fuel cell drive eats another 15% (more or less) This leaves a potential thermal efficiency of a drive train at something close to 60%! This is more than double the current efficiency. Curiously this is not the military reason for doing this. It is but one fairly lessor factor. The military reasons for doing this have to do with issues of "Readiness" and "Dual Use."
If you have a tank that runs this way and you have no longer use for the tank if it runs on standard engines you have a very expensive item to leave just sitting around doing nothing. But if you drive the tank using Hydrogen and produce Electric energy to drive it, the tank can just plug in and become a "Generator" for many uses after battle is done. The savings to the military here by going to such systems is about a 4 to 1 ratio in machinery that they don't have to haul around. This coupled with increased milage etc makes the process very attractive
In Iraq this would have allowed us to just "Plug In" and have the electrical grid up and running. But this is hardly all. There are very big issues here on the weight of drive trains and also in issues such as stealth. Current engines would allow an enemy to hear the Soldiers coming for many miles.(often 20 or more miles) This system is very quiet.
This will spin off into civilian use. The technology is going to do many things. It will make cars which are profoundly less noisy. The technology also has pollution control issues. It is essentially a clean burn for the fuel.
There are other issues here that many people could hardly imagine. The storage of Hydrogen as a liquified gas, or compressed gas is essentially impossible for use in normal conditions. The losses of Hydrogen alone would kill the use. The natural solution is to store the Hydrogen as a Hydride. Much experimentation has been done with Hydrides. All solutions come back to the natural solution that Carbon Hydrides and essentially about 6 to 20 carbon Alcane chains (Gasoline Jet fuel etc) are just about the optimal solution.
What is going to develop will probably be that Gasoline or similar fuel will be made using either Coal for the Carbon or by Hydration of poor quality vegitable oils or vegitable mass like Hydrilla or Algea. This will provide the store for the Hydrogen that may in fact be made from the same process fairly directly. This can be SOLAR in energy source.
There are other features here that are most desirable. This provides a stable store which works with current technology. It is energy optimal. It is fairly clean and allows the addition of regenerative braking and other mechanisms.
This is more or less what is going on. Sorry for those who thought that gasoline was going away, it looks as though it is here to stay for a long time to come. Fuel Reformers (Crackers for Hydrogen) will just make you have a 50 Kg Primary Energy Converter insted of a 500 Kg one. You will no longer have brakes or a transmission. Your controls will be as simple as computer joysticks. The
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The issue of ownership is as some have pointed out a bit funny. Regards Antarctica, the USA and Australia have long standing territorial claims on the area that they have placed in abayance until some future date only to avoid a fight over the area that was not needed at this time.
The Scientific Treaties and open access to Antarctica resembles the GPL in many ways but does not negate the original claims. The pushing of such claims was just "Delayed" There is considerable interest in no longer delaying those claims.
The USA "Claimed the Moon" in the name of all mankind, but bluntly if "All mankind" gets to arguing over it, the USA will if it occupies it, own it. Such claims are proved up by occupation. The US need to place a base on the moon comes from the fact that if we do not Occupy the place, our claim could be nulled by some other nation making a real occupational claim. The risk of this is developing rapidly as both India and China have programs to this end.
The interest of the USA in space has always been military. This does not make it the feared occupation many suggest. The US Military maintains basing and much activity around the world which has nothing to do with any desire to own or govern the area. The US Military activities largely are to negate such actions and behavior by others. This was and is the case now.
There is a fair and reasonable fear by many people that if military assendancy coupled with the focus of the control and power in the hands of fewer and fewer persons will render it a danger to all mankind. So long as the American People retain Civilian control of the military and its retains is rather odd structure with massive checks and balances on power there is little danger of this. But a wary eye to it at all times is a requirement for this to be maintained. Anyone who luls himself to sleep knowing it was safe when he closed his eyes may awake to find it gone. The price of Liberty is an ETERNAL VIGIL!
For those reading from over seas, the US Armed Forces are not some Unified Structure as has been portrayed. The US Armed Forces are a massively counterbalanced widely divided structure. This is why they are neither defeated easily nor likely to be the source of a coup.
The division even to Army, Navy, Air Force and some others is hardly the beginning of the understanding of this structure. The existence of NASA is actually such a division though officially it is not military.
There are divisions within each branch and divisions by Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard. These are also greatly divided. The basic design is a natural one where the action of one is opposed against another to counter it. This is actually taken from the design of your body. This is even divided 50 ways by each of the States! (This is pretty complex stuff!) The division makes any officer who might think to use his power to extort or coup understand that he faces an endless array of forces who he has neither influence on nor systematic contact with who might oppose him. Understanding this structure is most important for those wishing for freedom in the world. Without this type of governmental control which extends to all operations of the US Government your efforts no matter how well intended are doomed to failure and destruction.
The legitimate fear and I have heard it from the Military Officers themselves is that US Armed Forces are getting so powerful and so small (Don't rejoice for a cheap effective military) that these mechanisms are beginning to fail. Also such a mechanism depends entirely on the character of the people of the nation. Much worry about this failing is starting to be voiced regards the USA Population Generally! It is impossible to build a structure which can exceed in its operation the morals of those who administer it. It is possible to build a structure which provides effective devices and channels to control and counterbalance evil forces. It only works if those in its ranks generally are good.
First we need to realize that the USA needs the space program for advance of technology and for many other reasons. It is a good idea.
Unfortunately with the crop of "Free Traders" running around the USA at the present time if a spin off occurs it will spin into China. There is no benefit to this! In fact it is counter productive. It sabotages the existing industries in the USA and empowers our enemies.
This is why the people in Iowa and other places don't see benefits from the space program.
What we have here is a problem that would be like a water system. The water pressure is chronically low so we definitely need to fix the system. It is a good idea even essential. The problem is that it matters little how many new pumps we buy or new wells we drill or treatment plants we build for the system if we don't hire a welder to fix the hole in the water tower!
If our Federal Policy remains a Trade War against the American people, it really doesn't matter how many spin-offs NASA has. The Country will continue to have troubles with its economy. In fact all of the mechanisms that might otherwise fix our mess only serve to make our situation worse until we fix the real problem. Then we can get back to investing in our future.
The trade situation under the "Free Trade" deals has made it so that American Workers are tariffed (Taxed for those who don't know the definitions) 150% on their wages while their foreign competition is not so taxed. Lucky employers who actually earn money from these over taxed laborers find that if their profit is 2.5 times or greater that of the freight to import their product or service, they must export the jobs to survive and avoid US Taxes.
Under this situation investment in NASA is insane. If you look at it properly, the NASA spending increases the taxes on American Workers and Buinesses. It increases the modernization and efficiency of their for foreign competition while depriving US Businesses of the means to do so themselves.
I am the son of one of the men who put men on the moon. I like space exploration and most eagerly want it back. But this is like launching a rocket with an on board fire or a Bomb set to go off on board. It will not work!
and (b) whether plaintiff has ever distributed code or other material or otherwise made it available to the public, as part of a Linux distribution or otherwise, and, if so, the circumstances under which it was distributed or otherwise made available, including but not limited to the product(s) in which it was distributed or made available, and the terms under which is was distributed or made available (such as under the GPL or any other license).
Since the Judge compelled this particular request I suspect that the whole issue is dead with SCO. The Judge clearly has noted that the plaintiff may have given away the rights here! Reading this tells me it is all over but the shouting!
Just to be most precise the Chernobyl design while being common in the Old Soviet Union, was not their design. It was in fact the design of the first plutonium production reactor that was used in Hanford Washington and at the Savannah River Plantation. The design was abandoned early though at the time of the Chernobyl accident the design had a couple of US Reactors still using it for research and production of Tritium. I believe they all are gone now. (Maybe one left?)
This design was abandoned due to safety problems early on.
For the Lefties present there is a point! The Chernobyl accident proved what was subsequently found in KGB Records and what the US Left has religiously denied all this time. E.Rosenberg and J. Rosenberg with Mr. Greenglass were USSR spies and they were guilty of stealing Nuclear Secrets. One of the things they stole was this design!
In one of historys great poetic qwerks of poetic justice the USSR was taken down in part because of its stolen booty.
Regards to nuclear dangers, which are real but usually over stated by the left. These are not their real issue. They don't have anything against Nuclear when it is in Anti-American Hands. Their issue is hate America first. The radiation that occurs naturally is profoundly higher in almost all cases than that of a Nuclear Plant emission. A Smoker due to a feature of Tobacco gets the NRC lifetime limit at two packs a day in just 6 months.
Do I trust everything nuclear? No! But I don't trust a lot of other things that are also risks.
You got it! They do this all the time to steal jewelry in 3rd world countries. How about the poor guy in the fish cutting place who missed with the knife? Do they keep paying him indefinitely? I think not. This is another solution that doesn't address the real problem.
Devices only amplify people. It is the morals of the person that are the whole issue. Sure it is more convenient to use a hand. But you can take impressions of hands and fake them just about as easily or more so than making fake keys. I don't care, retinal scans will be same.
Disquises will become effective tools for stealing etc. The problem here is that we are going somewhere without looking.
The whole of the Human Race faces a choice. It is that we will either become the tools for our Industrialist's machines or they will be our tools. Ignorance seems to be deciding in favor of human beings being the tools rather than the machines.
Once we go there the decision will be pretty much final!
Yea lets see. If I make a software program and it cost me $100,000,000 and I sell a Thousand copies I must recoup $100,000 a copy. But If I sell 100,000,000 copies I must recoup $1 a copy. Thus if I do a volume business Cost is hardly an issue
However if I raise the cost of my product 20% to cover the funky stuff with the government here, and my sales drop 20% that means I must recoup an additional >40% on the product. The economics here are pretty staggering if you think about it.
The Govenment had best get get over it. (Get a life) Photo copy technology is going to get a lot better. Even if you build into software a trap for the latest and greatest bills, next edition is wide open. Sorry Adobe but you should use your money for something else just like the suggestion says
Well now we know how to get the teflon to remain stuck to the pan!
Seriously though we have a solution here to another set of problems that might be curiously the reverse of super or "muscle glue." The process by which teflon repells sticking is electrostatic. We now have a tool that will tell us how to manage the process more effectively. This has real potential for electronics as well as for many other things.
I will take a bet that the reduction in Type II diabetes will correspond to the reduction in intake of sugar (High Fructose Corn Sweetener) in Sodas. I will bet in the end the coffee itself will be found to have a slight deletorious effect but this will be offset as the person is not killing themselves with sugars.
High fructose Corn Sweetener is not from Corn! It is from a Genetically Altered Ecoli Bacteria and the high intake of Fructose has been shown to produce several severe health threats including increases in liver disease and kidney failure and DIABETES! It is a fair guess that this product is the problem and Coffee is just a neutral substitute that does little or no injury while avoiding the injury of the fructose in nutritionally unbalanced form. (This means without all the stuff that usually comes in fruit like actually being part of a food!) This sweetener would probably best be described as a drug.
This will never right itself until Americans wake up and realize that the "Trade War" is not with India but with their own Congress and President. The United States Congress in giving "Trade Promotion Authority" to the President and subsequent to that ratifiying the deals he brings home is doing this to us.
The same level Indian Post about the house/Elephant Polo etc... is quite right about the current reality. However; he has no idea what is causing this.
It is just this simple: The US Congress and President maintain policies that make American Workers have to markup their labor more than 150% in order to pay the taxes. In addition they maintain taxes on US Corporation Income that has a break point at 2.25:1 where if an employee earns more than 2.25 times the freight cost to import his product from overseas, there is a tax advantage to exporting the job. Consider that Software has no "Freight" charge on import.
With this situation should you be lucky enough to make your boss a ton of money, you just destroyed your prospects. If you just cost money, surely the world is full of untaxed people who can do your work cheaper. This has outlawed earning a living in the USA and all the ignorance to this fact to the contrary not withstanding, it is a fact and it will continue to accelerate the decline of the USA until fixed!
The internal effects of what Economists call the Multiplier Effect on the US Tax system make what I have said here worse by about one order of magnitude. This is unique to the US Tax Code Design. This is why the WTO etc has not a clue as to what is actually a Trade war or just a compensation for internal function. This is why Zero Tariff levels are INSANE for the US Tax system. They have debased the tax system and are threatening to debase the dollar. The economic facts on this speak for themselves. Check out the IRS Website for Social Security Tax Collections and see how this has begun to reverse the total income of the country. The Collections are in trouble for the first time in US History.
For all the Supporters of GWB (Prez USA) out there you might just wake up! He is accelerating this as his highest priority. Of course this is no "ringing endorsement" of the Dumbocrats out there either.
This is a Trade War Against Americans by the leadership of both parties.(I call them Republicrats) Make no mistake about it. It is also the most racist and bigoted one possible. If what those who justify this vile policy say were simply altered a bit you would see it in all of its glory.
Take the claim that Americans are to Lazy to work. ~~ "Blacks are too lazy to work." "Women are too Lazy to work." Making these claims as an employer would get you prosecuted in the USA but do it about everyone and it is suddenly honorable! How about those "Unqualified" or "Unskilled" or etc??? This is profoundly Anti-American in its basis.
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Good report on the facts. I do believe they have space suits on the station...
Regards to this problem, the loss of this much air should impart a significant rate to the space station. This would make it tend to make the station spin or move a bit. As a result the location of the leak should be pretty easy to determine.
An old friend of mine observed that the Asians were good XEROX machines. This may seem a bit crass (possibly bigoted) but his observation was that these people seldom innovate but they do copy and replicate well. Sony for example did not invent either the Video Recorder or the Camera. They did however repackage it well and sell a lot!
Sony is a bit of an innovator but for the most part this side of their business is based upon US or Westernized Personnel
This pattern of thinking difference is a profound one and is at base a product of the ethics and history of the peoples involved.
The development of large companies like China/Japan/Korea/India etc tend to do is a mirror of their anti-democratic historic traditions where one warlord rules all. In the same vein the US small business innovation is classic of our rather odd history. I would expect as these peoples become more and more acclimated to freedom this difference will disappear
All of this is of little effect though when one observes the not so silent partner of every American (US) businessman, the USA government. The issue of outsourcing etc is largely the product of a vigorous trade war being prosecuted by the United States Government against the Citizens of the USA. This trade war sees them loaded down with taxes and regulations to the point where they must mark up their products by over 150% in order to carry the load. At the same time the US Congress and President (NO EXCUSES HERE it is his policy! [GWB])have a policy of destroying these highly taxed Americans with untaxed imported goods/services.
The fact is that if a US Employee produces profits in excess of 2.5 times the freight cost to import his goods, all other factors being equal the business must export the job to survive this. If a US Employee lowers his wages to try to compete, he merely raises the profits and lowers the threshold at which his job must be exported. Please note the freight cost on IT imports is ZERO. At least manufactured goods had some safety zone. IT goods have none.
With the situation, where the more you do to improve your company the more you destroy your own job being legislated by the USA, this is bound to continue. This has legislatively removed the only advantage American Workers ever had in the market place which was their ability to innovate and cut cost. American Workers are by all real measures the cheapest labor on earth. It is their government which is too expensive! US Labor in many cases has gotten so cheap that it is actually irrelevent to the cost of many operations. This makes them most at danger under the current Trade War by Congress and the President.
The reference to Trade War is quite precise here. If France or China were to establish a set of tarriffs on US Goods we would understand that the effect was to render the USA out of their market and we would call it a "Trade War." This is precisely what the US Government has done to their own workers/businesses. It just is really strange for a nation to hate its own people enough to behave towards its own people as we would normally expect from a hostile foreign power. Make no mistake the policies are racist and bigoted against Americans.
If I were to say that there were no Qualified Women or that Women did not want to work I would be decried as a bigot. If I were to say that there were no Qualified Blacks or Blacks did not want to work or were "Lazy" immagine the outcry. Make exactly the same charge against all Americans taken as a whole and this somehow becomes decent. Remember that the matrix set says that such a charge is precisely that all women are unqualified or all blacks are unqualified.
The ability of Americans to employ their native innovation advantages is cut off by Congress. There are fair charges that some Americans are "Lazy" or "Unqualified" but this hardly applies to all and certainly does not apply to those so vigorously working to seek employ etc. There are "Lazy" and "Unqualified" Indians and Chinese. They
First Thanks for talking decently to the topic and explaining that the accurate measure is in fact accurate.
Regards to the why of this odd behavior I am sure that there is a most reasonable explanation. It is probably as simple as some Gravitational effect in the region. It als may be Induction associated with solar activity. Essentially that very high solar activity associated with CME's may actually induce currents in the earth that accelerate or decelerate the planet from time to time
In any case it is actually a matter worth looking into because it is in fine accurate measurement that we discover new things
It really isn't hard to figure this out. If one man is forced by his government(by taxation) to markup his labor 150% and another doing the same job does not have to do this, the choice between who to hire is absolutely clear!
Imagine two canned drinks of equal brand etc. You are the consumer. One machine selling charges $1.00 the next door machine charges $2.50 for the same drink. I am reasonably certain almost anyone would buy the cheaper one all other factors being equal.
This is the choice in Computer Programmers. The US programmers must mark their wages up 150% or more to pay the US taxes on their wages. We can go into why and all those other issues some other place. They have to do it! The issue here is that nothing else is going to happen but the decline of US Jobs until the USA fixes its tax system to account for the taxation differentials in the rest of the world.
Many people do not realize just how true this illustration is. The compounding of the US Income Tax actually makes this markup much higher than I have stated. (4 Layers takes it to 93% of Gross or a Markup of about 1200%) When it is reversed out even at the 150% rate most US Workers are cheaper than their foreign Competition. Yes the USA Labor is Cheaper, it is our TAXES that are so DAMNED expensive.
With the war situation and many other issues there is little prospect that the US Congress will lower taxes much any time soon. So Americans had better get ready to put up the "Going out of Business" sign on their government shortly unless they wake up and fix their tax system which was debased by NAFTA and GATT and the other "Free Trade" agreements.
I am sure some people will not cry at the prospect of fiscal ruin for the USA but I would suggest that it is nobody's interest and is not a good prospect. This points out the arrogance of those who dismiss the issue as unimportant or just a change in the economics of the world. This is in fact a trade war against American Citizens (and green card holders) by the United States Congress!
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Sorry but this just isn't so on the Depressions having started because of "Trade Wars." The famous "Smoot-Hawley" Tariff which was supposed by those who argue this trash to have caused the Depression of the 1930's starting per Wall Street Oct 29, 1929 has a problem.
"For a complete myth, it is astounding how much this one gets repeated. Sharp observers have probably already noticed there is a problem with dates. The stock market crashed in October, 1929, but Hoover did not sign the tariff into law until June 17, 1930. So more sophisticated conservatives have refined the story: the tariff turned an otherwise ordinary recession into a full-blown depression. But even this is a gross exaggeration, and top economists reject it out of hand. Peter Temin, an economic historian at MIT, told The Wall Street Journal on February 22, 1996 that this historical revisionism is "wrong," according to the consensus of the nation's most respected economists. Paul Krugman, one of the world's top international trade economists, and one who is expected to win a Nobel Prize for his revolutionary theories in favor of free trade, calls the Smoot-Hawley theory "incredible." "
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You have to believe in TIME TRAVEL to believe in that crap!
What is more the argument is entirely ignorant of the facts! We are in a "Trade War." One Government is placing a tariff on the goods and services of America causing them to have to be marked up about 150% while all other parties pay no such taxes. This Government is the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and it is doing so encouraged by fools who claim that trade deals such as NAFTA and GATT which set up this condition are good for trade. Frankly they are wiping American Trade from the whole world! In addition they are driving the entire world into a depression and have set up much of the cause conditions that have us in the "War on Terror" as these desperate people around the world are finding US Trade Policies are collapsing their economies while causing them to have to pay US Costs of Living. I know! I saw this in 1996 in the Philippines and came back knowing a war was coming from what I saw there.
Regards to the speculation on democracy failing I noted some time back that as people got more and more ignorant of reality they might just legislate farming out of business because it was dirty. Shockingly they have done worse and your arguments are what did it! They have quite literally legislated making a profit in the USA to be ILLEGAL! Right now if you earn for your employer more than 2.5 Times the cost of freight to import your product or service he makes a profit by Exporting your JOB because of thes ignorant trade deals. That has made it illegal for an American to actually earn money for his employer
Regards the Political Fallout on Steel Tariffs and the EU, these IGNORANT Deals violated the most basic provision of the US Constitution which was that all States must give Full faith and Credit to the Rulings of other States. The GATT through the WTO was given the right to overrule State and Federal Laws. The WTO power arises from this. It violates the very basis of free trade in that no person wanting free trade can expect that he sets the rules for all sides of that trade. That local laws are to be respected. The fact of local laws being respected does not mean that they should not apply to all parties trading locally as with the GATT this principal does not exist.
The reality is I am for FREE TRADE! I love my Free Trade with other US States. If you back Free trade tell those who want it to JOIN THE UNION!
A friend of mine observed in a pithy moment that the USA was in Startrek terms "The Borg." ~"Prepair to be assimilated Resistance is futile." (He and I are US Citizens) This was in response to the observation that the US Government was doing to us things it would not allow to be done to the people from other nations. He noted that they no longer care about us, We have been assimilated!
I have noted to some of my non US friends that I am very concerned with what is occuring here and frankly it should begin to scare them as well. It is as Thomas Jefferson noted, that if Americans ever lost their dedication to personal liberty and their caring for their fellow man, they would build a new Roman Empire --- Worse than the first.
I have seen officials of the US Government well before 9/11 and even before the Bush Admin(43) stating that "We are the new Roman Empire" something I hate with a passion. I have no desire of Empire and I see it as Anti-American as it can be.
I am sure that people advertizing anywhere need to be most careful about the presentation techniques. I do believe that the real issue here is access to this information. It is probable that we need some legislation that regulates the way that this information is made available so that anyone can obtain the strategy data for Search Engine Listings and buy accordingly. This is not intended to regulate how but to regulate that it be told how to do this. Otherwise the selling of space on a search engine is always a crapshot and may actually constitute fraud by the search engine if they advertize a service and deliver otherwise.
This problem of listing serices playing games is pretty old and always seems to be a problem. I think we come to accept it when kids in school get set down by the Alphabet of their last names and called first by A etc.
If we don't find a better way to handle this shortly, there are going to be real problems for those who get listed last by names etc. They may even have a case in that why should a listor get the last listing if the index factors are last by some factor the listor cannot control.
Thanks for telling about a strategy that works
The best solution is probably to emit sperious RFID data in response to the scan. It would be pretty simple to record a chorus of such data and then emit it randomly as a jamming signal. You could for example record the RFID from someone else and then emit his signatures. Funny though this might actually be a means to evade the law and their system of data collection.
Imagine someone being arrested because we tracked his RFID tagged Keys and ID Cards around as crimes were comitted and we have video of what appears to be him doing the deeds but actually it was all spoofing and someone else did the dirty deeds.
We all need to quit trusting technology a bit
Actually you point out a curious fact and you didn't even know it. The enforcement mechanisms were present. The enforcers were busy chasing other objectives.
The point is that such data is NEVER used for the stated purposes. It always gets used for other things. The stated purpose gets ignored indefinitely. I remember the USA on 2000 (New Years Eve) was worried to death about Al Qaeda terrorists. It demanded a 5 Billion supplemental to track them down and deal with them.
On 9/11/2001 according to official testimony only 42 persons in FBI and CIA were even tracking the Al Qaeda types. $5 Billion leaves a slightly larger footprint than that. Bluntly they went on to something else with the money.
Suspicion of the Government by the Citizens should be Axiomatic. It isn't Paranoia it is rational. Insane behavior would be to trust them. This isn't hostile it is just the nature of the beast.
The DARPA work isn't hardly as advanced as might be thought. It is none-the-less a system which is engineered to do anything but deal with the terrorists. This is an excuse to avoid HUMINT and avoid listening to actual problems.
The instances we see on TV of Children being recovered etc via Video Cameras etc are not Government Cameras. They are private Cameras. They were only used after a problem was discovered which is the only way such data should be used. The intrinsic problem with the Government maintaining this data is that it will be searched for "problems" rather than simply supporting the handling of a Known Problem. This goes to the heart of the US Constitution which says "No warrant shall issue without Probable Cause." To look mechanically and automatically for all "violations" finds accidents it does not find injuries. Such have no "Probable Cause" in them.
The EU guys will not understand this as they have always lived in a society where you had to get permission to do anything. You had no real rights only permits. The founders of the USA so opposed such a concept that they ran it out of our land on a rail. The return of it is the return to what brought on the Dark Ages. (Something the EU guys might know a about)
The actual failures in the 9/11 incidents involve the 20 or so times that the US Citizens confronted these guys and said here is a problem only to have the US Government Types ignore them. This is like the guy at the Crop Dusting Service calling the FBI about Arabic guys who wanted to know what was obviously terrorist uses for such aircraft. He reported it. They guys should by law have been busted and deported as "Undesirable Aliens." But then we had "Probable Cause" on them by this time and naturally the FBI doesn't pay attention to that. It isn't a Sting! It isn't High Tech. It isn't sexy. It is just doing your job! (Hint to the the FBI)
DARPA is full of some really bright nice people but there are some of them who view technology as a substitute for actually dealing with PEOPLE. This is the problem. But then its a lot more fun to shoot people by remote control or catch them by computer than to admit somebody aught to pay attention and be expected to do their job. DARPA is generally a pretty good team.
All we will get out of their infinite data system after the next attack is a really good record of what happened. Remember we have video of the 9/11 guys buying the box cutters. We have video of them getting on the plane. We have nearly a perfect record already. We even had a record of their trade and movements before hand. So when they bury you in your grave after the terrorist attack we will have billions of bits of data telling exactly how you died.... Nothing will have been done about the systematic disrespect of Citizens or Citizenship which had either been respected the attack would never have happened.
The better system you talk about would consist of a respect of Citizenship and a demand for it. If we had done so at least 20 times prior to 9/11 the guys would have been out of here. Thinking that it is anythi
This is really pretty simple to understand if you have a memory. Bluntly the Internet was nearly impossible for China to control. They feared its open communication and told companies like M$ that if they didn't make devices to do this horrid spying they would keep the Internet out of the country. So M$ did it. This wasn't a case of just doing softare that got misappropriated. This was design to purpose software for no other use.
This Report of Western Techies going to India is a LIE. It is ILLEGAL to take a job this way in India. Sorry but India will not tolerate it. This gives the Lie to "GLOBAL MARKETS" and to the whole "Free Trade" thing.
The Reality is that we accept more amd more "evidence" in courts of law that is actually a fiction and less and less of fact. It unfortunately is a FACT that the only evidence we have left anymore is the testimony of a person. Any Charts or "Evidence" is layered in so many layers of "Opinion" and subject to so many layers of fabrication that any juror who accepts the other stuff is taking quite a risk well above that inherent to testimony.
Genetic data for example only proves that the genes are present and suggests that the person was present. It is subject at so many layers to be faked or errored that accepting it as fact for conviction is unreasonable.
Any person who accepts for conviction of another "Picture" or "Video" evidence is too trusting.
AMEN! Now if any person in Utah Reelects this violator of their rights, they deserve the tyrant they get! Note this might just apply up the food chain a bit!
RFID will last about as long as the counterfitting of it does not get wide spread. I expect that as RFID Tags get going the spoofing of them will get going as well
Even if the RFID tag has authentication coding with all sorts of other tricks, it can and rapidly will be counterfitted. The counterfitting will include such things as people attaching counterfit tags to reduce the price of items as well as spoofing quantities
RFID will be subject to all sorts of other problems such as false charging of accounts etc. "Well the System doesn't lie! You checked that out here last week and we charged your card..." The limits of spoofing or misrepresentations of RFID are probably quite endless. Any Security system can and will rapidly fail. Suppose you use 1024 Bit encryption Elipical Curve Security on the RF Transmission you still suffer from Intercepts and from shielding and false tagging issues.
In a warehouse situation where the operators have good oversight and where there is little incentive to steal, this works well. Let it get out into the real world handling real money and around real thieves and it will become a mechanism for accelerated thieft.
Suppose you are a Wal-Mart and you get all the items in which have good RFID tags. You take inventory by a routine whole store querry code. You hear back from your items as always. But they walked out the door a day ago all checked right past your video covered checkers because they checked as different items because of counterfit tags etc. I know it is all perfectly safe like your e transfered cash at the bank...????!!! (NOT)
This will become the stuff of legendary levels of hijack and stealing. All of which will be hidden carefully by the companies because they will be terrified to admit that their system leaks just like bankers do right now!
The incidence of such thieft is pretty high in banking and rest assured that counterfit RFID Tags will probably be on the black market before they are actually installed in real working uses on a regular basis.
The process actually has many advantages for the Military and for civilians. But first people have to quit viewing hydrogen as a fuel and see it more like a battery that they charge up. It is not a Energy Source. It is an Energy Storage Media.
Working on such research myself for the USAF *yes military* I have learned a lot about what is going on. The process and demand for such changes is not exactly like what the media tend to report.
The reason we burn gasoline etc is to provide the Heat Catalyzed Hydrogen for conversion to Steam when reacted with Oxygen. While the carbon provides some energy it is really for running a Steam Engine. This cycle is limited thermally to about 38% efficient of the original energy in the steam. This is functionally further limited by other factors leaving current petrol engines about 25% to 28% efficient thermally.
The process for Cracking Hydrogen from fuel uses about 25% of the gross energy entering the process. Then the process of running a fuel cell drive eats another 15% (more or less) This leaves a potential thermal efficiency of a drive train at something close to 60%! This is more than double the current efficiency. Curiously this is not the military reason for doing this. It is but one fairly lessor factor. The military reasons for doing this have to do with issues of "Readiness" and "Dual Use."
If you have a tank that runs this way and you have no longer use for the tank if it runs on standard engines you have a very expensive item to leave just sitting around doing nothing. But if you drive the tank using Hydrogen and produce Electric energy to drive it, the tank can just plug in and become a "Generator" for many uses after battle is done. The savings to the military here by going to such systems is about a 4 to 1 ratio in machinery that they don't have to haul around. This coupled with increased milage etc makes the process very attractive
In Iraq this would have allowed us to just "Plug In" and have the electrical grid up and running. But this is hardly all. There are very big issues here on the weight of drive trains and also in issues such as stealth. Current engines would allow an enemy to hear the Soldiers coming for many miles.(often 20 or more miles) This system is very quiet.
This will spin off into civilian use. The technology is going to do many things. It will make cars which are profoundly less noisy. The technology also has pollution control issues. It is essentially a clean burn for the fuel.
There are other issues here that many people could hardly imagine. The storage of Hydrogen as a liquified gas, or compressed gas is essentially impossible for use in normal conditions. The losses of Hydrogen alone would kill the use. The natural solution is to store the Hydrogen as a Hydride. Much experimentation has been done with Hydrides. All solutions come back to the natural solution that Carbon Hydrides and essentially about 6 to 20 carbon Alcane chains (Gasoline Jet fuel etc) are just about the optimal solution.
What is going to develop will probably be that Gasoline or similar fuel will be made using either Coal for the Carbon or by Hydration of poor quality vegitable oils or vegitable mass like Hydrilla or Algea. This will provide the store for the Hydrogen that may in fact be made from the same process fairly directly. This can be SOLAR in energy source.
There are other features here that are most desirable. This provides a stable store which works with current technology. It is energy optimal. It is fairly clean and allows the addition of regenerative braking and other mechanisms.
This is more or less what is going on. Sorry for those who thought that gasoline was going away, it looks as though it is here to stay for a long time to come. Fuel Reformers (Crackers for Hydrogen) will just make you have a 50 Kg Primary Energy Converter insted of a 500 Kg one. You will no longer have brakes or a transmission. Your controls will be as simple as computer joysticks. The
The issue of ownership is as some have pointed out a bit funny. Regards Antarctica, the USA and Australia have long standing territorial claims on the area that they have placed in abayance until some future date only to avoid a fight over the area that was not needed at this time.
The Scientific Treaties and open access to Antarctica resembles the GPL in many ways but does not negate the original claims. The pushing of such claims was just "Delayed" There is considerable interest in no longer delaying those claims.
The USA "Claimed the Moon" in the name of all mankind, but bluntly if "All mankind" gets to arguing over it, the USA will if it occupies it, own it. Such claims are proved up by occupation. The US need to place a base on the moon comes from the fact that if we do not Occupy the place, our claim could be nulled by some other nation making a real occupational claim. The risk of this is developing rapidly as both India and China have programs to this end.
The interest of the USA in space has always been military. This does not make it the feared occupation many suggest. The US Military maintains basing and much activity around the world which has nothing to do with any desire to own or govern the area. The US Military activities largely are to negate such actions and behavior by others. This was and is the case now.
There is a fair and reasonable fear by many people that if military assendancy coupled with the focus of the control and power in the hands of fewer and fewer persons will render it a danger to all mankind. So long as the American People retain Civilian control of the military and its retains is rather odd structure with massive checks and balances on power there is little danger of this. But a wary eye to it at all times is a requirement for this to be maintained. Anyone who luls himself to sleep knowing it was safe when he closed his eyes may awake to find it gone. The price of Liberty is an ETERNAL VIGIL!
For those reading from over seas, the US Armed Forces are not some Unified Structure as has been portrayed. The US Armed Forces are a massively counterbalanced widely divided structure. This is why they are neither defeated easily nor likely to be the source of a coup.
The division even to Army, Navy, Air Force and some others is hardly the beginning of the understanding of this structure. The existence of NASA is actually such a division though officially it is not military.
There are divisions within each branch and divisions by Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard. These are also greatly divided. The basic design is a natural one where the action of one is opposed against another to counter it. This is actually taken from the design of your body. This is even divided 50 ways by each of the States! (This is pretty complex stuff!) The division makes any officer who might think to use his power to extort or coup understand that he faces an endless array of forces who he has neither influence on nor systematic contact with who might oppose him. Understanding this structure is most important for those wishing for freedom in the world. Without this type of governmental control which extends to all operations of the US Government your efforts no matter how well intended are doomed to failure and destruction.
The legitimate fear and I have heard it from the Military Officers themselves is that US Armed Forces are getting so powerful and so small (Don't rejoice for a cheap effective military) that these mechanisms are beginning to fail. Also such a mechanism depends entirely on the character of the people of the nation. Much worry about this failing is starting to be voiced regards the USA Population Generally! It is impossible to build a structure which can exceed in its operation the morals of those who administer it. It is possible to build a structure which provides effective devices and channels to control and counterbalance evil forces. It only works if those in its ranks generally are good.
The legiti
First we need to realize that the USA needs the space program for advance of technology and for many other reasons. It is a good idea.
Unfortunately with the crop of "Free Traders" running around the USA at the present time if a spin off occurs it will spin into China. There is no benefit to this! In fact it is counter productive. It sabotages the existing industries in the USA and empowers our enemies.
This is why the people in Iowa and other places don't see benefits from the space program.
What we have here is a problem that would be like a water system. The water pressure is chronically low so we definitely need to fix the system. It is a good idea even essential. The problem is that it matters little how many new pumps we buy or new wells we drill or treatment plants we build for the system if we don't hire a welder to fix the hole in the water tower!
If our Federal Policy remains a Trade War against the American people, it really doesn't matter how many spin-offs NASA has. The Country will continue to have troubles with its economy. In fact all of the mechanisms that might otherwise fix our mess only serve to make our situation worse until we fix the real problem. Then we can get back to investing in our future.
The trade situation under the "Free Trade" deals has made it so that American Workers are tariffed (Taxed for those who don't know the definitions) 150% on their wages while their foreign competition is not so taxed. Lucky employers who actually earn money from these over taxed laborers find that if their profit is 2.5 times or greater that of the freight to import their product or service, they must export the jobs to survive and avoid US Taxes.
Under this situation investment in NASA is insane. If you look at it properly, the NASA spending increases the taxes on American Workers and Buinesses. It increases the modernization and efficiency of their for foreign competition while depriving US Businesses of the means to do so themselves.
I am the son of one of the men who put men on the moon. I like space exploration and most eagerly want it back. But this is like launching a rocket with an on board fire or a Bomb set to go off on board. It will not work!
Since the Judge compelled this particular request I suspect that the whole issue is dead with SCO. The Judge clearly has noted that the plaintiff may have given away the rights here! Reading this tells me it is all over but the shouting!
Just to be most precise the Chernobyl design while being common in the Old Soviet Union, was not their design. It was in fact the design of the first plutonium production reactor that was used in Hanford Washington and at the Savannah River Plantation. The design was abandoned early though at the time of the Chernobyl accident the design had a couple of US Reactors still using it for research and production of Tritium. I believe they all are gone now. (Maybe one left?)
This design was abandoned due to safety problems early on.
For the Lefties present there is a point! The Chernobyl accident proved what was subsequently found in KGB Records and what the US Left has religiously denied all this time. E.Rosenberg and J. Rosenberg with Mr. Greenglass were USSR spies and they were guilty of stealing Nuclear Secrets. One of the things they stole was this design!
In one of historys great poetic qwerks of poetic justice the USSR was taken down in part because of its stolen booty.
Regards to nuclear dangers, which are real but usually over stated by the left. These are not their real issue. They don't have anything against Nuclear when it is in Anti-American Hands. Their issue is hate America first. The radiation that occurs naturally is profoundly higher in almost all cases than that of a Nuclear Plant emission. A Smoker due to a feature of Tobacco gets the NRC lifetime limit at two packs a day in just 6 months.
Do I trust everything nuclear? No! But I don't trust a lot of other things that are also risks.
You got it! They do this all the time to steal jewelry in 3rd world countries. How about the poor guy in the fish cutting place who missed with the knife? Do they keep paying him indefinitely? I think not. This is another solution that doesn't address the real problem.
Devices only amplify people. It is the morals of the person that are the whole issue. Sure it is more convenient to use a hand. But you can take impressions of hands and fake them just about as easily or more so than making fake keys. I don't care, retinal scans will be same.
Disquises will become effective tools for stealing etc. The problem here is that we are going somewhere without looking.
The whole of the Human Race faces a choice. It is that we will either become the tools for our Industrialist's machines or they will be our tools. Ignorance seems to be deciding in favor of human beings being the tools rather than the machines.
Once we go there the decision will be pretty much final!
Yea lets see. If I make a software program and it cost me $100,000,000 and I sell a Thousand copies I must recoup $100,000 a copy. But If I sell 100,000,000 copies I must recoup $1 a copy. Thus if I do a volume business Cost is hardly an issue
However if I raise the cost of my product 20% to cover the funky stuff with the government here, and my sales drop 20% that means I must recoup an additional >40% on the product. The economics here are pretty staggering if you think about it.
The Govenment had best get get over it. (Get a life) Photo copy technology is going to get a lot better. Even if you build into software a trap for the latest and greatest bills, next edition is wide open. Sorry Adobe but you should use your money for something else just like the suggestion says
Well now we know how to get the teflon to remain stuck to the pan!
Seriously though we have a solution here to another set of problems that might be curiously the reverse of super or "muscle glue." The process by which teflon repells sticking is electrostatic. We now have a tool that will tell us how to manage the process more effectively. This has real potential for electronics as well as for many other things.
I think Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles had a quite that said it all. "Speak the plain truth around here is getting pretty damn dull."
I will take a bet that the reduction in Type II diabetes will correspond to the reduction in intake of sugar (High Fructose Corn Sweetener) in Sodas. I will bet in the end the coffee itself will be found to have a slight deletorious effect but this will be offset as the person is not killing themselves with sugars.
High fructose Corn Sweetener is not from Corn! It is from a Genetically Altered Ecoli Bacteria and the high intake of Fructose has been shown to produce several severe health threats including increases in liver disease and kidney failure and DIABETES! It is a fair guess that this product is the problem and Coffee is just a neutral substitute that does little or no injury while avoiding the injury of the fructose in nutritionally unbalanced form. (This means without all the stuff that usually comes in fruit like actually being part of a food!) This sweetener would probably best be described as a drug.
This will never right itself until Americans wake up and realize that the "Trade War" is not with India but with their own Congress and President. The United States Congress in giving "Trade Promotion Authority" to the President and subsequent to that ratifiying the deals he brings home is doing this to us.
The same level Indian Post about the house/Elephant Polo etc... is quite right about the current reality. However; he has no idea what is causing this.
It is just this simple: The US Congress and President maintain policies that make American Workers have to markup their labor more than 150% in order to pay the taxes. In addition they maintain taxes on US Corporation Income that has a break point at 2.25:1 where if an employee earns more than 2.25 times the freight cost to import his product from overseas, there is a tax advantage to exporting the job. Consider that Software has no "Freight" charge on import.
With this situation should you be lucky enough to make your boss a ton of money, you just destroyed your prospects. If you just cost money, surely the world is full of untaxed people who can do your work cheaper. This has outlawed earning a living in the USA and all the ignorance to this fact to the contrary not withstanding, it is a fact and it will continue to accelerate the decline of the USA until fixed!
The internal effects of what Economists call the Multiplier Effect on the US Tax system make what I have said here worse by about one order of magnitude. This is unique to the US Tax Code Design. This is why the WTO etc has not a clue as to what is actually a Trade war or just a compensation for internal function. This is why Zero Tariff levels are INSANE for the US Tax system. They have debased the tax system and are threatening to debase the dollar. The economic facts on this speak for themselves. Check out the IRS Website for Social Security Tax Collections and see how this has begun to reverse the total income of the country. The Collections are in trouble for the first time in US History.
For all the Supporters of GWB (Prez USA) out there you might just wake up! He is accelerating this as his highest priority. Of course this is no "ringing endorsement" of the Dumbocrats out there either.
This is a Trade War Against Americans by the leadership of both parties.(I call them Republicrats) Make no mistake about it. It is also the most racist and bigoted one possible. If what those who justify this vile policy say were simply altered a bit you would see it in all of its glory.
Take the claim that Americans are to Lazy to work. ~~ "Blacks are too lazy to work." "Women are too Lazy to work." Making these claims as an employer would get you prosecuted in the USA but do it about everyone and it is suddenly honorable! How about those "Unqualified" or "Unskilled" or etc??? This is profoundly Anti-American in its basis.
Good report on the facts. I do believe they have space suits on the station...
Regards to this problem, the loss of this much air should impart a significant rate to the space station. This would make it tend to make the station spin or move a bit. As a result the location of the leak should be pretty easy to determine.
An old friend of mine observed that the Asians were good XEROX machines. This may seem a bit crass (possibly bigoted) but his observation was that these people seldom innovate but they do copy and replicate well. Sony for example did not invent either the Video Recorder or the Camera. They did however repackage it well and sell a lot!
Sony is a bit of an innovator but for the most part this side of their business is based upon US or Westernized Personnel
This pattern of thinking difference is a profound one and is at base a product of the ethics and history of the peoples involved.
The development of large companies like China/Japan/Korea/India etc tend to do is a mirror of their anti-democratic historic traditions where one warlord rules all. In the same vein the US small business innovation is classic of our rather odd history. I would expect as these peoples become more and more acclimated to freedom this difference will disappear
All of this is of little effect though when one observes the not so silent partner of every American (US) businessman, the USA government. The issue of outsourcing etc is largely the product of a vigorous trade war being prosecuted by the United States Government against the Citizens of the USA. This trade war sees them loaded down with taxes and regulations to the point where they must mark up their products by over 150% in order to carry the load. At the same time the US Congress and President (NO EXCUSES HERE it is his policy! [GWB])have a policy of destroying these highly taxed Americans with untaxed imported goods/services.
The fact is that if a US Employee produces profits in excess of 2.5 times the freight cost to import his goods, all other factors being equal the business must export the job to survive this. If a US Employee lowers his wages to try to compete, he merely raises the profits and lowers the threshold at which his job must be exported. Please note the freight cost on IT imports is ZERO. At least manufactured goods had some safety zone. IT goods have none.
With the situation, where the more you do to improve your company the more you destroy your own job being legislated by the USA, this is bound to continue. This has legislatively removed the only advantage American Workers ever had in the market place which was their ability to innovate and cut cost. American Workers are by all real measures the cheapest labor on earth. It is their government which is too expensive! US Labor in many cases has gotten so cheap that it is actually irrelevent to the cost of many operations. This makes them most at danger under the current Trade War by Congress and the President.
The reference to Trade War is quite precise here. If France or China were to establish a set of tarriffs on US Goods we would understand that the effect was to render the USA out of their market and we would call it a "Trade War." This is precisely what the US Government has done to their own workers/businesses. It just is really strange for a nation to hate its own people enough to behave towards its own people as we would normally expect from a hostile foreign power. Make no mistake the policies are racist and bigoted against Americans.
If I were to say that there were no Qualified Women or that Women did not want to work I would be decried as a bigot. If I were to say that there were no Qualified Blacks or Blacks did not want to work or were "Lazy" immagine the outcry. Make exactly the same charge against all Americans taken as a whole and this somehow becomes decent. Remember that the matrix set says that such a charge is precisely that all women are unqualified or all blacks are unqualified.
The ability of Americans to employ their native innovation advantages is cut off by Congress. There are fair charges that some Americans are "Lazy" or "Unqualified" but this hardly applies to all and certainly does not apply to those so vigorously working to seek employ etc. There are "Lazy" and "Unqualified" Indians and Chinese. They
First Thanks for talking decently to the topic and explaining that the accurate measure is in fact accurate.
Regards to the why of this odd behavior I am sure that there is a most reasonable explanation. It is probably as simple as some Gravitational effect in the region. It als may be Induction associated with solar activity. Essentially that very high solar activity associated with CME's may actually induce currents in the earth that accelerate or decelerate the planet from time to time
In any case it is actually a matter worth looking into because it is in fine accurate measurement that we discover new things
It really isn't hard to figure this out. If one man is forced by his government(by taxation) to markup his labor 150% and another doing the same job does not have to do this, the choice between who to hire is absolutely clear!
Imagine two canned drinks of equal brand etc. You are the consumer. One machine selling charges $1.00 the next door machine charges $2.50 for the same drink. I am reasonably certain almost anyone would buy the cheaper one all other factors being equal.
This is the choice in Computer Programmers. The US programmers must mark their wages up 150% or more to pay the US taxes on their wages. We can go into why and all those other issues some other place. They have to do it! The issue here is that nothing else is going to happen but the decline of US Jobs until the USA fixes its tax system to account for the taxation differentials in the rest of the world.
Many people do not realize just how true this illustration is. The compounding of the US Income Tax actually makes this markup much higher than I have stated. (4 Layers takes it to 93% of Gross or a Markup of about 1200%) When it is reversed out even at the 150% rate most US Workers are cheaper than their foreign Competition. Yes the USA Labor is Cheaper, it is our TAXES that are so DAMNED expensive.
With the war situation and many other issues there is little prospect that the US Congress will lower taxes much any time soon. So Americans had better get ready to put up the "Going out of Business" sign on their government shortly unless they wake up and fix their tax system which was debased by NAFTA and GATT and the other "Free Trade" agreements.
I am sure some people will not cry at the prospect of fiscal ruin for the USA but I would suggest that it is nobody's interest and is not a good prospect. This points out the arrogance of those who dismiss the issue as unimportant or just a change in the economics of the world. This is in fact a trade war against American Citizens (and green card holders) by the United States Congress!