Its more than the heat shield. Mass is imperative. If you impart the energy from a nuclear explosion to such a small item, you will accelerate it beyond any possibility that a human occupant could survive.
Aside, that is my objection to movies where they show someone falling, then someone swoops in just as they were about to hit the ground and stops their earthward acceleration, changing it to some tangential acceleration. The reason you die on hitting the ground is that your body rips and tears internally when subjected to the acceleration ( deceleration ) forces on hitting the ground. Changing to another set of acceleration forces in a different direction isn't going to help much.
I think saying space exists and is harmful is a poor repudiation of intelligent design. Otherwise, you could stop with animals, rocks, gravity and all the killing devices brought to us by our marvelous brains.
He made us capable of both good and evil, and left enough in our hearts that most of us don't feel good when we act evil. We can be as He, we have to choose it, though.
Making a "couple loopty loops" is a required step along the way. The Apollo project didn't start by going straight to the moon. There was a lot of testing before Earth orbit testing Lunar orbit testing Then landing on the moon.
"A hard crackdown on migrant labor and a invitation for local unemployeds to work the fields - a few dozen showed up and none lasted more than a couple of days."
How many could get to where the fields were? How many knew about it? What kind of wage was being offered?
And the capper, why would anyone start in such a field ( pun in intended ) when you know for dang sure that the migrant workers will be back and you will not? Probably in a matter of days. And in the mean time, heck, you made money this month, no more unemployment benefits for you, and you get to start the application process all over. After waiting till the end of the month. And wait to hear if you got in. And wait for benefits to start.
I agree completely on wall street killing the middle class. They don't seem to know where their money is coming from.
"I honestly don't think salaries are out of line. Tech workers should make less than management, they have a smaller scope of responsibility."
A, do they? B, so what if they do?
"Really, most people should plan to work until they reach retirement age and refrain from buying a yacht or private jet."
Who is talking about being entitled to a yacht or private jet?
"$100k is so far above the poverty line that the poster (a ways) above who was dissatisfied with it is a joke."
So, salary caps for everyone, at 100k. CEO's, doctors, lawyers, etc. President. Hedge fund manager.
"There is a culture of overworking tech workers though, that I think needs to end."
Yep.
"I would be perfectly happy with a $70k job where I could show up at 8, leave at 5, and not give it a passing thought after I walk out the door."
I like being able to do some of the things a higher salary has allowed me. I like being important to the company I work for, and 8 to 5 doesn't allow for that, really. I like having stepped out of the "there is more to do, let me do it" and spending time with family.
It is hard to support "they are happy to pay that cost" unless they are saving more than that 5000 on the labor rate for the worker. Which means they are paying less.
Is it legal for me to complete with them? No. Why is their salary lower? Because they live where their costs are lower. I am limited in what I can do about that. Sell my kids for medical experiments? Sell my kidneys? Can I immigrate there? No. What happens in/to the US? Wages go down. More unemployed. More unemployment to be paid ( or not, causing unrest ). Less money available, less moving around, less revenue for companies selling to US customers/clients/etc. More layoffs due to these lower revenues. The Pollyanna "innovate", "become an entrepreneur" are great, but carry risks and usually require capital. And see above, less money to access. It doesn't look like free trade from where I sit, but blood sucking. You see it differently, I am guessing. Good for you. But, if the positions were reversed, and your economic elites were selling you and yours down the river, would you smile and offer the same platitude?
"Electricity is not free. Any business that provides 1 or more "high speed chargers" has to pay for the hardware AND the cost of the electricity. They are in business to make money, and if any good at "business", they want to maximize profits. They will do this by passing on the costs associated with the "high speed chargers" on to their customers, in the form of higher prices. Those people who do NOT have a need for "high speed chargers" will not be pleased to subsidize the few who do (pay the higher prices), and will more than likely take their trade (money) elsewhere."
Replace "electricity" with "Political Participation", and amend the rest to make sense in context.
Outsourcing = lower expenses True Also true, lower expenses => lower wages here Good thing? Well, until the economic contractions lead to prices here falling.
So, take that 58 million budget and break down what it is used for. How much for buildings, How much for buses, How much ( and to whom, and how much ) for personnel How much for supplies Etc
How many children move thru the system in a given year?
How can we do better? Are we throwing money at it? Are the results poor, really? Are others using less to do more? Less to do the same? If so, how do they do that, can we use those techniques?
Yes, but they need the political cover that is given by being able to assert that "Americans cant think" so they can call for more outsourcing, more offshoring, more H1B's,etc.
I would think the 50k payday and being able to go back to a jurisdiction where they can thumb their nose at the NDA would be even more of an enticement for these workers to cash in.
And why the presupposition that the American would be less qualified?
Large companies set prices not on costs, but on "what the market will bear".
As long as the delta is reasonable, they will produce. What really happens is that the bright executive who manages to get workers for a pittance will get a larger bonus.
So, once the sale is done, the new owners will have them over a barrel, and will use that to make this profitable?
They are going to pay for it one way or another. Keeping it in house keeps control. The only advantage I would see would be that competitors to IBM might consider the chips more favorably.
They deserve a patent for adding letters to numbers and *symbols*?
What are letters? Symbols.
What is new, unique, and non-obvious about this?
In my opinion, not one thing. Work on it, talk about it, but no patent. I'm sure they will apply for one, and likely get it. But I don't think a patent is deserved here.
Assuming they made such progress, shouldn't any patents be about original ideas and techniques in the signal processing and/or machine learning and not on the kinda obvious by now idea of using unique symbols drawn on the item's surface to communicate letters and words?
"You do realize you're already competing for wages with people in Mumbai"
Fully. That is part of the anger on the issue. I cant find food or shelter at rates comparable, but I have to compete with a structurally lower cost person And I have to do that because someone *here* decided that. ( all the rationalizations still come down to a decision ) That someone here enjoys
Access to the market/economy that I am ( but, for many, am increasingly *not* ) part of
Pricing of products due to this access
Wages/profitability ( for the decider ) commensurate with *this* market/economy, ( and this, from *my* current, but someday lower wages! )
( plus the delta on what someone here used to make versus the other person )
But that someone here doesn't currently have to deal with the downward wage pressure. I would have a hard time describing such people as occupying moral high ground. For the record, trade is good, when done right ( the US allowing people and products to move without substantial issue ( other than real safety issues ) and our trading partners protecting and manipulating currencies and not allowing the reverse of the aforementioned people/product flow is wrong ).
I see what you are saying, and sure. But, it is my personal belief that corporations will seek monopoly without requiring government assistance ( indeed, even in the face of government resistance ). And that corporations with or without monopolies can abuse employees, the environment and, even customers/clients/consumers where the perception is that profitability lies in that direction. So, I see nothing intrinsic about the government established monopoly and the abuse. I.E., it's not the "monopoly" side of the equation, the abuse stems from, but the power ComCast has. Or, another way, if there were competition in this market, but ComCast had something like this kind of power, I believe something like this could still happen.
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Its more than the heat shield. Mass is imperative.
If you impart the energy from a nuclear explosion to such a small item, you will accelerate it beyond any possibility that a human occupant could survive.
Aside, that is my objection to movies where they show someone falling, then someone swoops in just as they were about to hit the ground and stops their earthward acceleration, changing it to some tangential acceleration. The reason you die on hitting the ground is that your body rips and tears internally when subjected to the acceleration ( deceleration ) forces on hitting the ground. Changing to another set of acceleration forces in a different direction isn't going to help much.
I think saying space exists and is harmful is a poor repudiation of intelligent design.
Otherwise, you could stop with animals, rocks, gravity and all the killing devices brought to us by our marvelous brains.
He made us capable of both good and evil, and left enough in our hearts that most of us don't feel good when we act evil.
We can be as He, we have to choose it, though.
Its not a waste.
Making a "couple loopty loops" is a required step along the way.
The Apollo project didn't start by going straight to the moon. There was a lot of testing before
Earth orbit testing
Lunar orbit testing
Then landing on the moon.
Minor nit to pick: "WWII fighter pilot". No. WWII naval torpedo plane pilot.
"A hard crackdown on migrant labor and a invitation for local unemployeds to work the fields - a few dozen showed up and none lasted more than a couple of days."
How many could get to where the fields were?
How many knew about it?
What kind of wage was being offered?
And the capper, why would anyone start in such a field ( pun in intended ) when you know for dang sure that the migrant workers will be back and you will not?
Probably in a matter of days. And in the mean time, heck, you made money this month, no more unemployment benefits for you, and you get to start the application process all over. After waiting till the end of the month. And wait to hear if you got in. And wait for benefits to start.
I agree completely on wall street killing the middle class. They don't seem to know where their money is coming from.
"I honestly don't think salaries are out of line. Tech workers should make less than management, they have a smaller scope of responsibility."
A, do they?
B, so what if they do?
"Really, most people should plan to work until they reach retirement age and refrain from buying a yacht or private jet."
Who is talking about being entitled to a yacht or private jet?
"$100k is so far above the poverty line that the poster (a ways) above who was dissatisfied with it is a joke."
So, salary caps for everyone, at 100k. CEO's, doctors, lawyers, etc. President. Hedge fund manager.
"There is a culture of overworking tech workers though, that I think needs to end."
Yep.
"I would be perfectly happy with a $70k job where I could show up at 8, leave at 5, and not give it a passing thought after I walk out the door."
I like being able to do some of the things a higher salary has allowed me.
I like being important to the company I work for, and 8 to 5 doesn't allow for that, really.
I like having stepped out of the "there is more to do, let me do it" and spending time with family.
It is hard to support "they are happy to pay that cost" unless they are saving more than that 5000 on the labor rate for the worker. Which means they are paying less.
Is it legal for me to complete with them? No.
Why is their salary lower? Because they live where their costs are lower. I am limited in what I can do about that. Sell my kids for medical experiments? Sell my kidneys?
Can I immigrate there? No.
What happens in/to the US? Wages go down. More unemployed. More unemployment to be paid ( or not, causing unrest ).
Less money available, less moving around, less revenue for companies selling to US customers/clients/etc. More layoffs due to these lower revenues.
The Pollyanna "innovate", "become an entrepreneur" are great, but carry risks and usually require capital. And see above, less money to access.
It doesn't look like free trade from where I sit, but blood sucking.
You see it differently, I am guessing. Good for you. But, if the positions were reversed, and your economic elites were selling you and yours down the river, would you smile and offer the same platitude?
"Electricity is not free. Any business that provides 1 or more "high speed chargers" has to pay for the hardware AND the cost of the electricity. They are in business to make money, and if any good at "business", they want to maximize profits. They will do this by passing on the costs associated with the "high speed chargers" on to their customers, in the form of higher prices. Those people who do NOT have a need for "high speed chargers" will not be pleased to subsidize the few who do (pay the higher prices), and will more than likely take their trade (money) elsewhere."
Replace "electricity" with "Political Participation", and amend the rest to make sense in context.
Outsourcing = lower expenses
True
Also true, lower expenses => lower wages here
Good thing? Well, until the economic contractions lead to prices here falling.
"If a highway carries 10,000 vehicles per day, do you complain that it doesn't have 10,000 lanes?"
I certainly do.
Well, OK, then.
So, take that 58 million budget and break down what it is used for.
How much for buildings,
How much for buses,
How much ( and to whom, and how much ) for personnel
How much for supplies
Etc
How many children move thru the system in a given year?
How can we do better?
Are we throwing money at it?
Are the results poor, really?
Are others using less to do more? Less to do the same? If so, how do they do that, can we use those techniques?
Yes, but they need the political cover that is given by being able to assert that "Americans cant think" so they can call for more outsourcing, more offshoring, more H1B's,etc.
I would think the 50k payday and being able to go back to a jurisdiction where they can thumb their nose at the NDA would be even more of an enticement for these workers to cash in.
And why the presupposition that the American would be less qualified?
Large companies set prices not on costs, but on "what the market will bear".
As long as the delta is reasonable, they will produce. What really happens is that the bright executive who manages to get workers for a pittance will get a larger bonus.
So, once the sale is done, the new owners will have them over a barrel, and will use that to make this profitable?
They are going to pay for it one way or another. Keeping it in house keeps control.
The only advantage I would see would be that competitors to IBM might consider the chips more favorably.
99 pounds of fuel on the jet,
99 pounds of fuel,
take one out
make it aloft
Didnt see that. Thanks!
They deserve a patent for adding letters to numbers and *symbols*?
What are letters? Symbols.
What is new, unique, and non-obvious about this?
In my opinion, not one thing. Work on it, talk about it, but no patent.
I'm sure they will apply for one, and likely get it. But I don't think a patent is deserved here.
No, no. We need the "liptop" computer.
Display will be laser projection in front of your eyes, input will be speech recognition.
It may take a while for these to take off for the ladies....
Assuming they made such progress, shouldn't any patents be about original ideas and techniques in the signal processing and/or machine learning and not on the kinda obvious by now idea of using unique symbols drawn on the item's surface to communicate letters and words?
When Apple "invents" it, will it be called iGraffit?
"You do realize you're already competing for wages with people in Mumbai"
Fully. That is part of the anger on the issue.
I cant find food or shelter at rates comparable, but I have to compete with a structurally lower cost person
And I have to do that because someone *here* decided that. ( all the rationalizations still come down to a decision )
That someone here enjoys
Access to the market/economy that I am ( but, for many, am increasingly *not* ) part of
Pricing of products due to this access
Wages/profitability ( for the decider ) commensurate with *this* market/economy, ( and this, from *my* current, but someday lower wages! )
( plus the delta on what someone here used to make versus the other person )
But that someone here doesn't currently have to deal with the downward wage pressure.
I would have a hard time describing such people as occupying moral high ground.
For the record, trade is good, when done right ( the US allowing people and products to move without substantial issue ( other than real safety issues ) and our trading partners protecting and manipulating currencies and not allowing the reverse of the aforementioned people/product flow is wrong ).
I see what you are saying, and sure. But, it is my personal belief that corporations will seek monopoly without requiring government assistance ( indeed, even in the face of government resistance ). And that corporations with or without monopolies can abuse employees, the environment and, even customers/clients/consumers where the perception is that profitability lies in that direction.
So, I see nothing intrinsic about the government established monopoly and the abuse.
I.E., it's not the "monopoly" side of the equation, the abuse stems from, but the power ComCast has.
Or, another way, if there were competition in this market, but ComCast had something like this kind of power, I believe something like this could still happen.
What does the business ComCast is in have to do with them getting the complainant fired?