Sure, some guys making chemo drugs make a lot of dollars, but what drives most medicos is that we care, and we are not very good at pulling back when things are hopeless, because sometimes we succeed.
Ah, the good old variable-reinforcement technique. Works every time.
Statistically, the economists say, the value of a human life is about $1 million. At least, if you can do something for safety (e.g. install a railing somewhere, put a better crumple zone in your car) and there's a 1% chance it will save a life, people are willing to spend up to $10,000, give or take.
That's in the aggregate, mind you. It's a bit harder when it's an individual person.
If they didn't violate the trust of people who send animals to them, thinking that it'll be good for the animal... I might agree.
Don't give an unwanted animal to PETA. Give them to the Humane Society. They'll try. They spend money on actual animals, instead of just obnoxious advertising campaigns and donations to terrorist groups who firebomb research labs and the like.
The "Adjust radio frequency" update added a bunch of radios all over the place which, if dragged to the correct location (or if you extract the resource bundles), will produce some sounds which translate to an old ham-radio-style slow-scan TV signal which have a bunch of pictures which give you some sort of hashed version of the phone number of the BBS where you login with 'backup/backup' and watch a progress bar saying "backup restoring, ETA: next Thursday (except on weekends)" or other silly stuff, and get ASCII art pictures of scenes which involve robots.
I'm sure I'm missing something. Like the secret new game ending. Which is on Youtube somewhere.
The Wall Street Journal had a "defense of capitalism" editorial the other day which said that half the usual conservative defense was bogus, and the reason capitalism and a private sector is so good is that it promotes economic diversity, while government regulations and socialism promote a monoculture approach. I think this is a place that is aware of the pitfalls of "monoculture" enough to appreciate that.
It doesn't matter if his employers were competent or not; he should have let them have access to their own property.
His employer was the city. His job was to keep the passwords safe from everyone except the Mayor. When the mayor finally asked for them, I understand he gave them to him. Was there something in there that I missed?
You say this to make fun of the global warming debate, but theoretically it's not completely impossible that underground nuclear testing has something to do with the specifics of any earthquakes since the 1950s or so. Earthquakes are undoubtedly chaotic, and a series of megaton explosions underground might have shaken things a little and helped them get where they're going faster (temporarily).
Mind you, I'm not claiming that's necessarily the case either (or even probably the case). Just that, much like a decent conspiracy theory,
it's not entirely nonsense or outside the realm of possibility. (I'd guess that overall seismicity remains the same overall but chaotic effects will change the locations of, say, half the aftershocks next century.)
The last time my company was acquired (the only time, actually) I got $10k up front, a new hiring-bonus, and a big fat bundle of retention bonuses. Yes: in 2008, even.
Then they closed the San Mateo office and moved us down to Sunnyvale. That still kind of stinks.:(
How about this is completely unrelated and if I really care about the list of patents on a product I'm probably treating them as a warning, not an ad, and I'd rather they be too-inclusive than super-exclusive?
No. The point of quantum mechanics was the quantization, with all those little quanta (discrete particles). Hence the name. The uncertainty principle, moreover, has a numeric quantity behind it which describes exactly how much you can hope to measure in a specific measurement. The physics of hydrophobia/hydrophilia and molecular biology in the aggregate is quite discoverable.
I lied because I was tired of the DSL tech trying to get me to configure my SpeedStream 5100A as if it was a 5100B (the latter does routing and gives it an IP address with a web UI, the former is a dumb modem, so it's a big difference) and I just wanted some darned login credentials. Since you ask.
Yeah; cities get to take advantage of economies of scale. And transportation-in-bulk is horrendously efficient. You'll use more energy to cook a bag of potatoes than you will to ship them halfway around the world by slow boat.
If you want real "efficiency" from your food, set up a vegetable garden.
I want to give you a hug, man. (But I won't. I respect your personal space.)
I'm one of those guys who suspects that global warming is probably a real phenomenon, but that its coverage in the media is mostly-fake, its coverage in science proper is mildly biased and exxagerated as an institutional matter (cf. 'climategate', overrated as it may be) and the public policy prescriptions that are preached by Al Gore are mostly nonsense. But more importantly, the state of the "debate" is shameful.
You speak as if there's this magic point where a pirated copy comes out and then the game sales immediately plummet. I wasn't under the impression that reality worked that way.
All of this might be enough to put investors off stocks entirely, until they consider the long-term alternatives. Measured over the 1978-2008 period, rather than over just one decade, stock performance in real-real terms actually is better than that of just about any other major investment class, Mr. Thornburg found: 4.5% a year. Stocks' ability to keep up with inflation over the very long haul may be their best selling point.
This makes sense, after all. If making boatloads of money on the stock market were so easy, you'd expect people to bid up the price of stocks until it wasn't much easier than making money investing anywhere else.
I have used Google Street View to shop for apartments and look at neighborhoods without actually having to drive there. It's incredibly useful. Google Street View completes Craigslist.
"Oh, it's a great deal! Hmm... and this apartment is in the 'Buena Vista' neighborhood of San Jose, eh? Now, is that actually a pretty neighborhood with great views and nice Victorian-style homes? Or is it a bunch dilapidated houses with paved-over front yards mixed with ugly apartment blocks and overcrowded streets up against a barbed wire wall to the nearest strip-mall shopping center?" (... since you ask, it's closer to the latter.)
You only need "ethics" to guide your behavior when you're dealing with entities that exist.
When we actually locate an actual life form from outside of Earth that's a little more interesting than a fossilized bacteria, we can begin to consider this problem in light of the specifics of our plans and capabilities.
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Ah, the good old variable-reinforcement technique. Works every time.
Statistically, the economists say, the value of a human life is about $1 million. At least, if you can do something for safety (e.g. install a railing somewhere, put a better crumple zone in your car) and there's a 1% chance it will save a life, people are willing to spend up to $10,000, give or take.
That's in the aggregate, mind you. It's a bit harder when it's an individual person.
Like pop-up books. Or scratch-n-sniff.
If they didn't violate the trust of people who send animals to them, thinking that it'll be good for the animal... I might agree.
Don't give an unwanted animal to PETA. Give them to the Humane Society. They'll try. They spend money on actual animals, instead of just obnoxious advertising campaigns and donations to terrorist groups who firebomb research labs and the like.
Maybe, but if so we certainly could also consider adding some of those PETA loonies.
The PC laptop market also has a decent level of support for Bluetooth. Certainly better than the desktop market, anyway.
The "Adjust radio frequency" update added a bunch of radios all over the place which, if dragged to the correct location (or if you extract the resource bundles), will produce some sounds which translate to an old ham-radio-style slow-scan TV signal which have a bunch of pictures which give you some sort of hashed version of the phone number of the BBS where you login with 'backup/backup' and watch a progress bar saying "backup restoring, ETA: next Thursday (except on weekends)" or other silly stuff, and get ASCII art pictures of scenes which involve robots.
I'm sure I'm missing something. Like the secret new game ending. Which is on Youtube somewhere.
The Wall Street Journal had a "defense of capitalism" editorial the other day which said that half the usual conservative defense was bogus, and the reason capitalism and a private sector is so good is that it promotes economic diversity, while government regulations and socialism promote a monoculture approach. I think this is a place that is aware of the pitfalls of "monoculture" enough to appreciate that.
His employer was the city. His job was to keep the passwords safe from everyone except the Mayor. When the mayor finally asked for them, I understand he gave them to him. Was there something in there that I missed?
You say this to make fun of the global warming debate, but theoretically it's not completely impossible that underground nuclear testing has something to do with the specifics of any earthquakes since the 1950s or so. Earthquakes are undoubtedly chaotic, and a series of megaton explosions underground might have shaken things a little and helped them get where they're going faster (temporarily).
Mind you, I'm not claiming that's necessarily the case either (or even probably the case). Just that, much like a decent conspiracy theory, it's not entirely nonsense or outside the realm of possibility. (I'd guess that overall seismicity remains the same overall but chaotic effects will change the locations of, say, half the aftershocks next century.)
USGS FAQ here.
And get 0wned by a zombie in Switzerland or Dubai or Schenectady or something.
Psst. It's spelled 'pique' when you're doing it to interest. Spread the word.
Then they closed the San Mateo office and moved us down to Sunnyvale. That still kind of stinks. :(
Your mileage may vary.
How about this is completely unrelated and if I really care about the list of patents on a product I'm probably treating them as a warning, not an ad, and I'd rather they be too-inclusive than super-exclusive?
No. The point of quantum mechanics was the quantization, with all those little quanta (discrete particles). Hence the name. The uncertainty principle, moreover, has a numeric quantity behind it which describes exactly how much you can hope to measure in a specific measurement. The physics of hydrophobia/hydrophilia and molecular biology in the aggregate is quite discoverable.
I lied because I was tired of the DSL tech trying to get me to configure my SpeedStream 5100A as if it was a 5100B (the latter does routing and gives it an IP address with a web UI, the former is a dumb modem, so it's a big difference) and I just wanted some darned login credentials. Since you ask.
But that's just me.
Yeah; cities get to take advantage of economies of scale. And transportation-in-bulk is horrendously efficient. You'll use more energy to cook a bag of potatoes than you will to ship them halfway around the world by slow boat.
If you want real "efficiency" from your food, set up a vegetable garden.
I want to give you a hug, man. (But I won't. I respect your personal space.)
I'm one of those guys who suspects that global warming is probably a real phenomenon, but that its coverage in the media is mostly-fake, its coverage in science proper is mildly biased and exxagerated as an institutional matter (cf. 'climategate', overrated as it may be) and the public policy prescriptions that are preached by Al Gore are mostly nonsense. But more importantly, the state of the "debate" is shameful.
Do I get to be called a "denialist" too?
You speak as if there's this magic point where a pirated copy comes out and then the game sales immediately plummet. I wasn't under the impression that reality worked that way.
If you ever get a link to the Wall Street Journal that you can't read, just plop the URL into Google and click on the link from there.
This makes sense, after all. If making boatloads of money on the stock market were so easy, you'd expect people to bid up the price of stocks until it wasn't much easier than making money investing anywhere else.
"Oh, it's a great deal! Hmm... and this apartment is in the 'Buena Vista' neighborhood of San Jose, eh? Now, is that actually a pretty neighborhood with great views and nice Victorian-style homes? Or is it a bunch dilapidated houses with paved-over front yards mixed with ugly apartment blocks and overcrowded streets up against a barbed wire wall to the nearest strip-mall shopping center?" (... since you ask, it's closer to the latter.)
You only need "ethics" to guide your behavior when you're dealing with entities that exist.
When we actually locate an actual life form from outside of Earth that's a little more interesting than a fossilized bacteria, we can begin to consider this problem in light of the specifics of our plans and capabilities.
And I think for the big bucks, you can even hedge a little political risk with your favorite insurance company.
The only winning move is not to play.