The CEOs probably know each other from their meetings at the World Economic Forum. So you just place a phonecall to the right person or talk with them at the golf course and heads roll.
Google Talk was fine. Sure I use the service most often from inside a browser but if I wanted to use it all the time, as I do on occasion, a standalone client is a lot more energy efficient and convenient to use than running something inside a browser.
The interface in Gmail has been getting more and more obnoxious. In the name of simplicity if I write a reply it does not even bother showing me the subject field anymore. WTF.
Secondly, most Christians I know consider it perfectly consistent with their worldview to believe that evolution is a mechanism by which God achieves His goals.
Yes. I think he was smart enough to realize it is a lot easier and kewler to do creation using procedural generation with DNA evolution than having to hand carve every model by hand.
What I can say is that he's an idiot. Does he ever mention copyright? No he claims if software patents stop being issued the only choice these corporations have is to treat software works as a trade secret which is plain bullshit. Then he mentions that because some law stating it could be done was passed the Supreme Court cannot rule it as unconstitutional. Again bullshit. The Supreme Court rules taking into account the Constitution of the United States and it just so happens that laws CAN pass in the legislative branch and be declared unconstitutional in whole or part later. IANAL but even I know that.
Steam is a digital software store which mostly sells games. If they come with DRM or not depends on the wishes of the game studios who put the game there to begin with.
Yeah they do have their own DRM scheme but they don't force game studios to use it.
You are simplifying things too much. In a global economy companies like Apple may have next to no employees in Europe while collecting large amounts of profit selling goods manufactured by workers in China. Thus their income tax exposure in Europe is next to zero while their corporate tax exposure is actually quite large.
Then there is the other side of the coin: small and mid sized companies that actually pay the corporate taxes which are at a competitive disadvantage because they have more tax expenses than Apple. They cannot employ these off-shore tax evasion schemes. Those are the companies that actually employ and pay the most salaries to people in those European countries. Salaries that enable people to buy the Chinese manufacture Apple iShiny crap to begin with.
By doing what you propose what happens is a massive wealth transfer out of EU citizen pockets and into some corporate Apple shell account god knows where with residual payments to the Chinese workers doing the brunt of the work.
Not really. What is happening is that in most countries tax collection went down and they either increased taxes or cut services or both to compensate. Guess why they are collecting less taxes? Because companies like Apple are not paying their taxes! Guess who is getting taxed the most to compensate? consumers and hired labour.
Tax havens exist for all sorts of reasons. In a country like the Netherlands where a large part of GDP is natural gas exports the government can live off that and cut some corporate taxes. But not everyone is like Saudi Arabia.
If you are talking in the Internet the spaces make little difference. But commas or dots in numbers are onfusing since they have opposite meanings in US vs Europe and most of the rest of the world. i.e. the US uses the ',' as the thousands separator while in Europe its the '.' that's the thousands separator and similar rules apply to the decimal separator.
I guess you don't get the point. State of the art is not economical. An engine that is trivial to design and build, and which gives reasonable ISP and thrust/weight is a superior choice for rockets where you want more value out of them than you put in.
The Russians claim staged combustion engines are more cost effective than gas generator engines. Who am I to say any different? As for SpaceX they wouldn't be working on the Raptor using a LOX/Methane staged combustion cycle while moving away from gas generators like Merlin if they thought the Russians were wrong.
In fact if you look at the Merlin-1D a lot of the advances it has are clearly Russian tech derived like the channel wall nozzle. You know which other two stage to orbit LOX/Kerosene rocket is available in the market other than Falcon 9? Zenit.
SpaceX is not using staged combustion now because solving those issues to get LOX/Kerosene oxidizer rich staged combustion is certainly not trivial. RD-171 took a long time to develop. Supposedly it is easier to solve the technical issues with LOX/Methane staged combustion, of which the Russians also have working engines, because it has less polymerization and coking issues.
Angara is being developed alright. The launch pad was finally funded circa 2010 and they finished construction of it at Plesetsk recently. The first Angara 1.2 rocket is supposed to launch from Plesetsk at the end of this month. The first Angara 5 rocket is supposed to launch late this year or early next year. They also funded construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome as a replacement for Baikonur on Kazakhstan.
Also guess what the Soyuz capsule already uses rocket assisted propulsion for softening up capsule landing.
Russia has not designed a whole new spacecraft because a) Soyuz works fine. b) Roskosmos wasn't exactly swimming in money and had other problems on their mind. i.e. ensuring they could manufacture Proton and Soyuz 100% in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union left a lot of the rocket manufacturing in Ukraine, replace analog with digital avionics, and the replacement of the military rockets based on hypergolics with a LOX/Kerosene launcher. That is Angara.
There has certainly be no lack of proposals. Energia seems to propose a new capsule like every year or so.
Assuming the people actually controlling the money were interested in two different launcher projects that is. The same people that pushed through the F-111 one plane fits all.
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The CEOs probably know each other from their meetings at the World Economic Forum. So you just place a phonecall to the right person or talk with them at the golf course and heads roll.
Hence the comparison to an envelope. Those aren't exactly foolproof either.
Google Talk was fine. Sure I use the service most often from inside a browser but if I wanted to use it all the time, as I do on occasion, a standalone client is a lot more energy efficient and convenient to use than running something inside a browser.
The interface in Gmail has been getting more and more obnoxious. In the name of simplicity if I write a reply it does not even bother showing me the subject field anymore. WTF.
Oh really? So how many of the predictions our esteemed climate scientists made with their precious models actually held?
I would rather side with the farmers.
Secondly, most Christians I know consider it perfectly consistent with their worldview to believe that evolution is a mechanism by which God achieves His goals.
Yes. I think he was smart enough to realize it is a lot easier and kewler to do creation using procedural generation with DNA evolution than having to hand carve every model by hand.
Then there is the Aether theory. You think scientists are somehow magically infallible or something like that?
I had neither of those. Then again I chose a degree in a subject matter that actually gets people employed.
What I can say is that he's an idiot. Does he ever mention copyright? No he claims if software patents stop being issued the only choice these corporations have is to treat software works as a trade secret which is plain bullshit. Then he mentions that because some law stating it could be done was passed the Supreme Court cannot rule it as unconstitutional. Again bullshit. The Supreme Court rules taking into account the Constitution of the United States and it just so happens that laws CAN pass in the legislative branch and be declared unconstitutional in whole or part later. IANAL but even I know that.
If you could legally drill oil in Antarctica I bet there would be people living there.
The Russians keep jacking up the price. Then surprise surprise the Ukrainians don't want to pay.
Nah. It would still happen.
Even without Linux support a lot of the games they sell are old DOS based games that run just fine on DOSBox or ScummVM.
Steam is a digital software store which mostly sells games. If they come with DRM or not depends on the wishes of the game studios who put the game there to begin with.
Yeah they do have their own DRM scheme but they don't force game studios to use it.
If they actually paid taxes perhaps the tax rates could be reduced to provide the same services. But that probably never crossed your mind did it?
You are simplifying things too much. In a global economy companies like Apple may have next to no employees in Europe while collecting large amounts of profit selling goods manufactured by workers in China. Thus their income tax exposure in Europe is next to zero while their corporate tax exposure is actually quite large.
Then there is the other side of the coin: small and mid sized companies that actually pay the corporate taxes which are at a competitive disadvantage because they have more tax expenses than Apple. They cannot employ these off-shore tax evasion schemes. Those are the companies that actually employ and pay the most salaries to people in those European countries. Salaries that enable people to buy the Chinese manufacture Apple iShiny crap to begin with.
By doing what you propose what happens is a massive wealth transfer out of EU citizen pockets and into some corporate Apple shell account god knows where with residual payments to the Chinese workers doing the brunt of the work.
Not really. What is happening is that in most countries tax collection went down and they either increased taxes or cut services or both to compensate. Guess why they are collecting less taxes? Because companies like Apple are not paying their taxes! Guess who is getting taxed the most to compensate? consumers and hired labour.
Tax havens exist for all sorts of reasons. In a country like the Netherlands where a large part of GDP is natural gas exports the government can live off that and cut some corporate taxes. But not everyone is like Saudi Arabia.
If you are talking in the Internet the spaces make little difference. But commas or dots in numbers are onfusing since they have opposite meanings in US vs Europe and most of the rest of the world. i.e. the US uses the ',' as the thousands separator while in Europe its the '.' that's the thousands separator and similar rules apply to the decimal separator.
Some professions have a closed number. Think doctors or notaries for instance. Do you find that anticompetitive ?
Yes.
Milton Friedman - The Real World Effects Of Unions.
Actually when the NVIDIA RIVA TNT came out and people still had their 3Dfx Voodoo 2 cards they were a lot cheaper than they are now.
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I guess you don't get the point. State of the art is not economical. An engine that is trivial to design and build, and which gives reasonable ISP and thrust/weight is a superior choice for rockets where you want more value out of them than you put in.
The Russians claim staged combustion engines are more cost effective than gas generator engines. Who am I to say any different? As for SpaceX they wouldn't be working on the Raptor using a LOX/Methane staged combustion cycle while moving away from gas generators like Merlin if they thought the Russians were wrong.
In fact if you look at the Merlin-1D a lot of the advances it has are clearly Russian tech derived like the channel wall nozzle. You know which other two stage to orbit LOX/Kerosene rocket is available in the market other than Falcon 9? Zenit.
SpaceX is not using staged combustion now because solving those issues to get LOX/Kerosene oxidizer rich staged combustion is certainly not trivial. RD-171 took a long time to develop. Supposedly it is easier to solve the technical issues with LOX/Methane staged combustion, of which the Russians also have working engines, because it has less polymerization and coking issues.
Shuttle was supposed to replace Titan with the use of the Shuttle-Centaur stage. USAF had Titan III like NASA had Saturn V.
Angara is being developed alright. The launch pad was finally funded circa 2010 and they finished construction of it at Plesetsk recently. The first Angara 1.2 rocket is supposed to launch from Plesetsk at the end of this month. The first Angara 5 rocket is supposed to launch late this year or early next year. They also funded construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome as a replacement for Baikonur on Kazakhstan.
Also guess what the Soyuz capsule already uses rocket assisted propulsion for softening up capsule landing.
Russia has not designed a whole new spacecraft because a) Soyuz works fine. b) Roskosmos wasn't exactly swimming in money and had other problems on their mind. i.e. ensuring they could manufacture Proton and Soyuz 100% in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union left a lot of the rocket manufacturing in Ukraine, replace analog with digital avionics, and the replacement of the military rockets based on hypergolics with a LOX/Kerosene launcher. That is Angara.
There has certainly be no lack of proposals. Energia seems to propose a new capsule like every year or so.
Assuming the people actually controlling the money were interested in two different launcher projects that is. The same people that pushed through the F-111 one plane fits all.