It's a method for gathering sunlight, like many others. As stated between the lines of TFA, there is a certain amount of sunlight that might be gathered that makes it through the atmosphere and hits earth. This is a good thing... but considering the amount of energy we as a species use today, mainly in form of oil, sunlight is limited. Or put differently: there's no way we're going to bait-and-switch the sun into doing the job oil does today.
It is estimated that the total amount of energy gained from fossil fuels since the start of civilization is equivalent to the same amount of energy we receive every 30 days from the sun.
Instead of having their reporters embedded with frontline troops sending home eye (and advertising) catching footage, they get embedded in the transport depot and they get to film grunts washing trucks.
Remember back when reporters didn't need to be "embedded" (in bed with?) the military to cover wars? What was that called...? Oh yeah, "journalism". Ah, the old days...
What the immigration does is make the choice a little easier for corporations to pick the US over India. Sure, immigration does, to some small extent push down US wages. Know what pushes down US wages even more though? When they say "fuck it" and simply have the entire thing done in India for a fraction of the cost.
Know what makes it even easier to choose doing the work in the US over India?
Don't want to be subject to hostile takeovers? Don't go public. And good luck making a few billion.
More specifically, don't sell a majority interest of your company -- retain that 51% for yourself. Can still make billions, but don't risk getting strong-armed out of your own company.
It must be very fatiguing to willfully and consistently conflate the term "outsourcing" with the concept of offshoring. Dell sending their call center to Amarillo (or even Lansing) is vastly different from sending it to Hyderabad.
They really are two different classes of activities, and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
Sadly, you are wrong. Though probably not how you meant.
Watch The Corporation. Corporations are legally required to act solely to increase their shareholders' value. You can act morally, but such action must always be overridden by the shareholders' purely monetary interests, in the case of a conflict. This is, of course, technically, almost always the case.
So, why are you wrong? Because it's not true that morals and ethics usually don't factor in -- they almost never can factor in.
Whatever morals and ethics Google has managed to slip in post-IPO have been allowed because their stock keeps rising and no one complains. Let the situation turn sour, though, and I guarantee you'll see the subset of their shareholders who are asshats suing for the company to pursue immoral/unethical courses of action to increase profit/stock value.
Mr. Gore allowed his wife and her friends in the PMRC to have special senate hearings
"Allowed" her to? What was he supposed to do, beat her till she stopped? And was he also supposed to beat the other three founding biddies -- er, members -- of PMRC?
Also, for the record, they were never advocating "*BANNING*" (bolded, asterisked, all-caps, or otherwise) anything. It was mostly a bunch of silly visibility-reduction tactics (that would, of course, only increase the sales of the targeted albums via heightened cachet...) and, of course, the parental-advisory stickers we see to this day (that the industry adopted before the hearings were even held).
Believe me, I never had any love for the PMRC, but out-and-out misinformation isn't going to help anything -- except an attempt to smear Al Gore. And that's not at all what you were trying to do...right?
I would think you would calibrate the clock before you start dividing -- measure how many ticks you get in ten seconds, divide that number by 10, and divide your clock's output by that. Might be 998 on this one, 1003 on the next one.
Still would be better the higher your starting frequency is, of course, since even if you calibrate perfectly, you still might be off by 0.5 ticks, but that 0.5 ticks represent less and less of an error the more input ticks you're counting per output tick.
Just how few MIBF (Mean Instructions Before Failure) is your CPU rated for? Afraid you're going to use it all up? Wear out the gears and levers and such?
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You're both forgetting The Zeroth Law.
That's because slaves, unlike the robots, were cursed with the human psychology that allowed them to succumb to what we call "a broken spirit".
Come to think of it, if you were to invent a robot that could get a broken spirit, I bet you'd win some kind of major Mad Scientist award.
Laws requiring it for access to the US market.
"2 + 2 = 4" -- Adolf Hitler
Oh noes! Burn the math books!
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I always get my copypasta modded +5 Int'resting
In a mere trice I can link to goatse.cx in JPEG, GIF, and PNG
On the other hand, she got herself disowned and cut out of a huge inheritance. Not smart.
There are far more than two kinds of peeps.
It must be very fatiguing to willfully and consistently conflate the term "outsourcing" with the concept of offshoring. Dell sending their call center to Amarillo (or even Lansing) is vastly different from sending it to Hyderabad.
They really are two different classes of activities, and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
Watch The Corporation . Corporations are legally required to act solely to increase their shareholders' value. You can act morally, but such action must always be overridden by the shareholders' purely monetary interests, in the case of a conflict. This is, of course, technically, almost always the case.
So, why are you wrong? Because it's not true that morals and ethics usually don't factor in -- they almost never can factor in.
Whatever morals and ethics Google has managed to slip in post-IPO have been allowed because their stock keeps rising and no one complains. Let the situation turn sour, though, and I guarantee you'll see the subset of their shareholders who are asshats suing for the company to pursue immoral/unethical courses of action to increase profit/stock value.
Indeed. Some of us don't like coffee (nor all the other compounds in it). Even if you do, it takes time to drink it. And it tends to be expensive these days. I find caffeine pills are far cheaper, easier, and are exactly as effective. Probably safer, too.
It's The Picture of Dorian Gray in reverse.
Also, for the record, they were never advocating "*BANNING*" (bolded, asterisked, all-caps, or otherwise) anything. It was mostly a bunch of silly visibility-reduction tactics (that would, of course, only increase the sales of the targeted albums via heightened cachet...) and, of course, the parental-advisory stickers we see to this day (that the industry adopted before the hearings were even held).
Believe me, I never had any love for the PMRC, but out-and-out misinformation isn't going to help anything -- except an attempt to smear Al Gore. And that's not at all what you were trying to do...right?
I would think you would calibrate the clock before you start dividing -- measure how many ticks you get in ten seconds, divide that number by 10, and divide your clock's output by that. Might be 998 on this one, 1003 on the next one.
Still would be better the higher your starting frequency is, of course, since even if you calibrate perfectly, you still might be off by 0.5 ticks, but that 0.5 ticks represent less and less of an error the more input ticks you're counting per output tick.
I so wish I hadn't used up my mod points, so I could give you one.
This idea that offending both sides is the epitome of fairness is a cop-out. It excuses the reporter from doing any critical thinking or analysis.
Halfway between right and wrong is not "fair and balanced".
The Port Of San Francisco has had its ass kicked by the Port Of Oakland for decades now. After containerization, it just never kept up...
Blizzard should pay Donnelly $3M per year to disable his bot.
That way, he makes more money, more reliably, and with less work; and they save ~$16M per year. Right, Blizzard?
Need to juggle that schedule a bit to fit in about half an hour studying Bob The Angry Flower.