As an MBA, let me tell you I'm very involved in making things and selling them. How/where we make things falls into my lap, what price we sell them at also falls into my lap. Identifing new markets to sell our products into to new products, something I do.
While this tool doesn't break DRM, the files on a specific kindle are locked using the PID of that device. Something that looks up the PID is step one of allowing someone to bypass the DRM.
Speculators can't make your soil more fertile or you crops flourish.
Yes they can. Pickup a wall street journal from the past week. Front page story about how farmers who have had their fields flooded in middle america are going to REPLANT them despite the fact that the yield they will get from the crop is low because the Price is high In most years they wouldn't do it because the yields are too low and the risk of crop failure too high. A perfect example of how financial markets create more food by getting people to do things they would not have done otherwise.
If you brew your own beer, you don't need to pay the alcohol tax on it.
Actually, you may need to pay alcohol tax...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing#Legality_ in_the_USA
If there are two people in your house you get 200 gallons tax free, 100 if there are one. Most people don't have to worry about this but a few do.
I bought a house with FiOS installed. When I went to have my speakeasy VOIP and DSL service transfered I found out that it couldn't be done. Why, because when the prior owner had FIOS installed they disconnected the copper lines.
Verizon is bringing back the phone company monoply one house at a time. Once you get FIOS, no more copper and no more alternative providers. FiOS is pretty cheap right now but I'd like to see what happens when it gets to be the only game around.
The system as it is, only punishes people who have seizures and are honest about it.
Maybe you want to reword that? Find a word besides punish, because not allow someone who is a danger to other to drive isn't punishment.
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Is severance not regulated as it is in my home country, where it is a percentage of earnings up to the point?
Severance is not regulated in the U.S., in fact there is no legal requirement to offer ANY severance. That being said many companies will offer it and use a formula, however they only do it because they chose to or they entered into a contract with the worker/s that requires it.
My NDA etc. agreement at my work is much like the google one. Except there are two twists.
First, the company has 30 days to notify me in writing if they will enforce it. And then if they do I get paid 150% of my salary for two years while I am locked out of working for someone else.
This baby has teeth because of that clause it is very hard to get overturned.
The "food" fuel tradeoff isn't exactly a 1 to 1 thing. After the ethanol is produced you have "distillers grains"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_distiller's_gra in
Out of one 56lb bushel of corn you get 17lbs of distillers grains.
Iran imports the majority of the gasoline, diesel, etc. throught the straigt as they don't have the refining capability to refine their own crude. If the shut the outflow down, the inflow will also be shut down.
That is why Iran if they wanted to shut the straight needs a 3rd party, i.e. a terrorist to shut them down. If they do it direct their country will grind to a halt. Even if they do it indirectly they may still get blamed. And no gasoline will cause a fair deal of social unrest. The prospect of a closure is over-estimated from many people.
Oil IS radioactive. Oil refinery have a lot of radioactive waste to dispose of because oil is frequently in rock structures which are radioactive and pick some of that up. Natural radioactive waste is allready there.
I work in Oil and Gas, I'm a finance guy who does M&A.
We've got a LOT of assets out there. Everything we own falls into the following categories.
1. Assets we are trying to sell
2. Assets, we'll sell for the right price
3. Assets, we are not trying to sell
4. Assets, we will not sell
For category 1. there is a directory that has the data on these assets. We've got our "sales strategy" as to if we will use auction, private sale etc. and the price we want to get for these assets and the lowest price we'll take.
An example.
First, If bidders for those assets had those files they would find them worth a LOT. Knowing our min. price could help them off at prices MILLIONS of dollars lower than what they might otherwise offer. Someone might have been willing to bid $380 million for an asset, however they find out we are willing to take $325 million for it via private sale. The economic gain from that info to the offering party is $55 million dollars. They may be willing to pay, perhaps 100k?, to get that intel.
A second example,
Perhaps we think the best way to sell an asset is to auction it off. If someone knew this, and the price we were expecting to get for it they might make a private pre auction bid for it at our expected price less the sales fee's.
Thats easy, Amazon has been having some crazy mad sales on Diapers... Cheapest place to get them right now. AND let me tell as the owner of a rugrat they go through a LOT of diapers.
Yes, Amazon does.
Amazon has their disto centers send items out in two basic ways.
1. The slap a label on it and Fedex/UPS picks it up at their loading gate just like everyone else does.
2. They load a whole or partial truckload of boxes, and send that whole truckload themselves to a regional UPS center. You can get between 1000 and 2000 packages onto a truck which makes the cost for doing this with each package pretty cheap. Much of Amazon's shipping is done this way, which means they only pay for interzone shipping from Fedex/UPS terminal to your house which is very cheap EXPECIALLY with overnight and two day shipping.
Option two is what amazon has the scale to do in a BIG way. Go to one of their logistics centers and you'll see that they send out quite a few direct trucks. Doing this allows them to make a profit on basic shipping which they use to defer their free shipping promotions.
Tivo DOES do this, your just a dumbass who needs to RTFM.
When you set up a season pass for a show you can set it to start recording X minutes before and/or after the schows scheduled time.
I currently work in the refining business. Refineries consume a LOT of hydrogen to remove sulpher, and to convert parts of the crude oil stream into more valuable/usefull products. Hydrogen usage has gone up by quite a bit in order to produce cleaner fuels.
You don't need a "hydrogen" based transport system to be able to use cheap sources of hydrogen in the energy business. Currently, most hydrogen comes from natural gas, and sometimes coke. With a non hydrocarbon source of hydrogen a lot more hydrocarbons could be converted into the liquid fuel that our society really wants.
Commercial non hydrocarbon hydrogen sources changes the economics quite a bit since many hydrocarbon based fuels tend to have price correlation. Natural gas, and hence hydrogen prices, move roughly in step with oil prices. Breaking this relationship for the refinery business would be a HUGE change.
For instance,
Fuel oil, mostly a waste product these days, could be shifted into diesel or gasoline.
Coal, Natural Gas, and other hydrocarbons not suited for liquid fuel usage could be far mor easily converted into other products.
Further, a refinery is an energy HOG it requires a lot of steam and electricity to function. Much of that is produced with "extra" waste products. A close reactor that could supply, hydrogen, electricity, and steam to a facility would allow for great output per barrel (since less is used for fuel) and lower operating costs.
Given cheap plentiful hydrogen a HUGE range of things could be converted into liquid fuels. This could change things in ways many other posters have not quite thought of.
Basically, a more efficent usage of current hydrocarbons without having to make a massive new investment in capital.
Depleated uranium is well, useless for building nuclear weapons it lacks the U-235 (hence the depleated term) that you build bombs with.
To use "breeder" techniques you need to have a full scale nuclear power plant, not a thing you can build in your backyard on a shoestring. If you can make the fuel for the reactor you can build a normal bomb, no breeder process needer.
Total FUD on your part.
Spammers are not covered by the geneva convention... I can't wait to see what they do to those guys in prision.
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Coal or natural gas can easily be converted INTO the very same liquid fuels that we use today. The costs required to do that require oil prices that average $20 a barrel for the plants 30 year lifespan.
Sasoil of south africa is the worlds LEADER in using the technology. It is old and proven tech, the nazi's used it in ww2 for fuel. The department of energy has several billion in grants related to making this technology cheaper right now.
Actually, community opposition to projects is SO large that many are stopped dead.
Industrial projects happen on cheaper land, poorer people frequently live on or near cheaper land. Thus we get charged with discrimination and a whole host of other things. Nobody wants a plant near them.
I've been involved with LNG facilities lately. Over 50 years of operating history shows they are FAR safer to live near and less harmfull to the enviroment than most other industrial facilities. The engineering and consultants all say the facilities are QUITE safe to live next to. The worst that could happen is a bad fire.
Some asshole 20 miles away from the plant would would NEVER be affected by it gets it into his head that the plant is dangerous and protests the hell out of it. Fights the plant every which way.
THe NET, is that local people can tie projects up for SO long timewise that the time value of money kicks in and companies just walk away. I don't see a new refinery buing built within the united states until we run OUT of gasoline.
After you install this network is when things will get interesting. Basically, it is going to need maintance and financial care and feeding to keep going.
When things break, security holes need patching, firewalls updating, someone gets their personal server slashdoted or hoggs resources, basically stuff changes. Hammering out how your going to deal with change NOW will save a LOT of pain in the future.
Will there be policies and terms of use, will the updated, who updates them? What if the current sysadmin gets hit by a bus or just ups and quits. Was everything well documented when it was built, does anyone know where those things are?
The REAL problems will come about after the system is up and running. Plan now for that, and honestly a lawyer to draft a "association network" agreement would be a good idea.
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As an MBA, let me tell you I'm very involved in making things and selling them. How/where we make things falls into my lap, what price we sell them at also falls into my lap. Identifing new markets to sell our products into to new products, something I do.
While this tool doesn't break DRM, the files on a specific kindle are locked using the PID of that device. Something that looks up the PID is step one of allowing someone to bypass the DRM.
Speculators can't make your soil more fertile or you crops flourish.
Yes they can. Pickup a wall street journal from the past week. Front page story about how farmers who have had their fields flooded in middle america are going to REPLANT them despite the fact that the yield they will get from the crop is low because the Price is high In most years they wouldn't do it because the yields are too low and the risk of crop failure too high. A perfect example of how financial markets create more food by getting people to do things they would not have done otherwise.
Dude, that is the best post I've ever seen on slashdot.
If you brew your own beer, you don't need to pay the alcohol tax on it. Actually, you may need to pay alcohol tax... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing#Legality_ in_the_USA
If there are two people in your house you get 200 gallons tax free, 100 if there are one. Most people don't have to worry about this but a few do.
I bought a house with FiOS installed. When I went to have my speakeasy VOIP and DSL service transfered I found out that it couldn't be done. Why, because when the prior owner had FIOS installed they disconnected the copper lines. Verizon is bringing back the phone company monoply one house at a time. Once you get FIOS, no more copper and no more alternative providers. FiOS is pretty cheap right now but I'd like to see what happens when it gets to be the only game around.
The system as it is, only punishes people who have seizures and are honest about it. Maybe you want to reword that? Find a word besides punish, because not allow someone who is a danger to other to drive isn't punishment.
Is severance not regulated as it is in my home country, where it is a percentage of earnings up to the point? Severance is not regulated in the U.S., in fact there is no legal requirement to offer ANY severance. That being said many companies will offer it and use a formula, however they only do it because they chose to or they entered into a contract with the worker/s that requires it.
My NDA etc. agreement at my work is much like the google one. Except there are two twists. First, the company has 30 days to notify me in writing if they will enforce it. And then if they do I get paid 150% of my salary for two years while I am locked out of working for someone else. This baby has teeth because of that clause it is very hard to get overturned.
The "food" fuel tradeoff isn't exactly a 1 to 1 thing. After the ethanol is produced you have "distillers grains" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_distiller's_gra in
Out of one 56lb bushel of corn you get 17lbs of distillers grains.
20% of my spending is for FDA regulated products? Hell NO!
Iran imports the majority of the gasoline, diesel, etc. throught the straigt as they don't have the refining capability to refine their own crude. If the shut the outflow down, the inflow will also be shut down.
That is why Iran if they wanted to shut the straight needs a 3rd party, i.e. a terrorist to shut them down. If they do it direct their country will grind to a halt. Even if they do it indirectly they may still get blamed. And no gasoline will cause a fair deal of social unrest. The prospect of a closure is over-estimated from many people.
Oil IS radioactive. Oil refinery have a lot of radioactive waste to dispose of because oil is frequently in rock structures which are radioactive and pick some of that up. Natural radioactive waste is allready there.
I work in Oil and Gas, I'm a finance guy who does M&A. We've got a LOT of assets out there. Everything we own falls into the following categories. 1. Assets we are trying to sell 2. Assets, we'll sell for the right price 3. Assets, we are not trying to sell 4. Assets, we will not sell For category 1. there is a directory that has the data on these assets. We've got our "sales strategy" as to if we will use auction, private sale etc. and the price we want to get for these assets and the lowest price we'll take. An example. First, If bidders for those assets had those files they would find them worth a LOT. Knowing our min. price could help them off at prices MILLIONS of dollars lower than what they might otherwise offer. Someone might have been willing to bid $380 million for an asset, however they find out we are willing to take $325 million for it via private sale. The economic gain from that info to the offering party is $55 million dollars. They may be willing to pay, perhaps 100k?, to get that intel. A second example, Perhaps we think the best way to sell an asset is to auction it off. If someone knew this, and the price we were expecting to get for it they might make a private pre auction bid for it at our expected price less the sales fee's.
Thats easy, Amazon has been having some crazy mad sales on Diapers... Cheapest place to get them right now. AND let me tell as the owner of a rugrat they go through a LOT of diapers.
Yes, Amazon does. Amazon has their disto centers send items out in two basic ways. 1. The slap a label on it and Fedex/UPS picks it up at their loading gate just like everyone else does. 2. They load a whole or partial truckload of boxes, and send that whole truckload themselves to a regional UPS center. You can get between 1000 and 2000 packages onto a truck which makes the cost for doing this with each package pretty cheap. Much of Amazon's shipping is done this way, which means they only pay for interzone shipping from Fedex/UPS terminal to your house which is very cheap EXPECIALLY with overnight and two day shipping. Option two is what amazon has the scale to do in a BIG way. Go to one of their logistics centers and you'll see that they send out quite a few direct trucks. Doing this allows them to make a profit on basic shipping which they use to defer their free shipping promotions.
Tivo DOES do this, your just a dumbass who needs to RTFM. When you set up a season pass for a show you can set it to start recording X minutes before and/or after the schows scheduled time.
I currently work in the refining business. Refineries consume a LOT of hydrogen to remove sulpher, and to convert parts of the crude oil stream into more valuable/usefull products. Hydrogen usage has gone up by quite a bit in order to produce cleaner fuels. You don't need a "hydrogen" based transport system to be able to use cheap sources of hydrogen in the energy business. Currently, most hydrogen comes from natural gas, and sometimes coke. With a non hydrocarbon source of hydrogen a lot more hydrocarbons could be converted into the liquid fuel that our society really wants. Commercial non hydrocarbon hydrogen sources changes the economics quite a bit since many hydrocarbon based fuels tend to have price correlation. Natural gas, and hence hydrogen prices, move roughly in step with oil prices. Breaking this relationship for the refinery business would be a HUGE change. For instance, Fuel oil, mostly a waste product these days, could be shifted into diesel or gasoline. Coal, Natural Gas, and other hydrocarbons not suited for liquid fuel usage could be far mor easily converted into other products. Further, a refinery is an energy HOG it requires a lot of steam and electricity to function. Much of that is produced with "extra" waste products. A close reactor that could supply, hydrogen, electricity, and steam to a facility would allow for great output per barrel (since less is used for fuel) and lower operating costs. Given cheap plentiful hydrogen a HUGE range of things could be converted into liquid fuels. This could change things in ways many other posters have not quite thought of. Basically, a more efficent usage of current hydrocarbons without having to make a massive new investment in capital.
Depleated uranium is well, useless for building nuclear weapons it lacks the U-235 (hence the depleated term) that you build bombs with. To use "breeder" techniques you need to have a full scale nuclear power plant, not a thing you can build in your backyard on a shoestring. If you can make the fuel for the reactor you can build a normal bomb, no breeder process needer. Total FUD on your part.
Hate to break it to you, but there were no aerons in the boardroom.
Spammers are not covered by the geneva convention... I can't wait to see what they do to those guys in prision.
Coal or natural gas can easily be converted INTO the very same liquid fuels that we use today. The costs required to do that require oil prices that average $20 a barrel for the plants 30 year lifespan. Sasoil of south africa is the worlds LEADER in using the technology. It is old and proven tech, the nazi's used it in ww2 for fuel. The department of energy has several billion in grants related to making this technology cheaper right now.
Gasoline formulations chage with local conditions over time. The more your tempature swings the more the gasoline changes.
Actually, community opposition to projects is SO large that many are stopped dead. Industrial projects happen on cheaper land, poorer people frequently live on or near cheaper land. Thus we get charged with discrimination and a whole host of other things. Nobody wants a plant near them. I've been involved with LNG facilities lately. Over 50 years of operating history shows they are FAR safer to live near and less harmfull to the enviroment than most other industrial facilities. The engineering and consultants all say the facilities are QUITE safe to live next to. The worst that could happen is a bad fire. Some asshole 20 miles away from the plant would would NEVER be affected by it gets it into his head that the plant is dangerous and protests the hell out of it. Fights the plant every which way. THe NET, is that local people can tie projects up for SO long timewise that the time value of money kicks in and companies just walk away. I don't see a new refinery buing built within the united states until we run OUT of gasoline.
After you install this network is when things will get interesting. Basically, it is going to need maintance and financial care and feeding to keep going. When things break, security holes need patching, firewalls updating, someone gets their personal server slashdoted or hoggs resources, basically stuff changes. Hammering out how your going to deal with change NOW will save a LOT of pain in the future. Will there be policies and terms of use, will the updated, who updates them? What if the current sysadmin gets hit by a bus or just ups and quits. Was everything well documented when it was built, does anyone know where those things are? The REAL problems will come about after the system is up and running. Plan now for that, and honestly a lawyer to draft a "association network" agreement would be a good idea.