There's nothing valorous about picking on the homeless. Sure, it's fraud, but just treat any panhandling story like a circus act because there's a damned good reason to make it more appealing than accurate.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking,
They want to be special and want to be listened to, so they started their own group to be in charge of so where they can watch people react when they yell "fire" in a crowded theatre.
Do you *really* go for all this fascist interpretations of our founding documents?.
That's the trendy thing to do these days. Can't run a sporting club without a pile of people getting killed as a side effect of mismanagement and lobbying for stupid exemptions? Then claim it's the fault of a founding document and that every single adult male in the country is automatically part of a well regulated militia.
The crazy anti-vaxxer bitch that you Americans exported to Australia is ultra-conservative with extra Ann Rand "bring back the Russian nobility" on top. The cancer spread from one to thousands within five years.
Are you thick? It's an example of a Federal Government project and most of such work is done in Canberra, thus artificially inflating the contract market mainly in Canberra.
Here is an example of what I'm writing about, it was published on Crikey today:
None of this came cheap. A local Canberra outfit, Zoo, got $102,000 for their “re:think” brand and website work for the tax reform paper, Sydney PR and lobby outfit chaired by former communications minister Helen Coonan, GRACosway scored $297,000 and another $70,000, to drive the communications around tax whitepaper, and Melbourne communications research firm HP Open Mind Research pocketed $193,000 and a further $68,000 to understand what the punters want (“lower simpler fairer” taxes) and another research group Taylor Nelson Sofres won a $79,000 contract. A company called RXP also picked up $112,000 to build an online submission system. (Google forms is free.) But it was the boutique creative and media agency 303Lowe who got the big bucks, $1,746,612 (to be precise) for putting the Challenge of Change campaign together. (Thank you AusTender).
$2.7 million all up. That would have repaired a lot of school playgrounds.
The "people here who do not understand a topic" is aimed at the poster up above - "Richard_at_work" who got things so stupidly wrong that he suggested it would cost "billions". For some reason I didn't catch that he was not the one that replied to my comment on his comment.
PCB's... and no doubt lead and mercury are also present.
So? People do work with dangerous materials you know.
in India and Bangladesh
That's right, the places that are now training engineers about as good as anywhere else. You've also given a link to an example of how dirt cheap it is.
my understanding is that the steel often gets rolled into rebar
The scrap gets melted first. Say goodbye to anything that's a gas at around 1500C - so no lead, no PCBs, no mercury - they go somewhere but not where the steel goes.
There's an informative show out there
I really do not get why people here who do not understand a topic take it upon themselves to "educate" people with real-world experience in a topic.
have works that have been in the public domain, sometimes for decades, and all of a sudden are protected under copyright again
There's a flute player in Australia who committed suicide due to the legal fallout from using a riff from a 1932 song with unenforced copyright owned by the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts). The copyright was bought by a record company who took legal action in 2009 against the song with that flute riff recorded in 1981. IP laws are well named - it's about pissing all over everything.
"No man is above the law and no man is below it". It's convenient to label some people we don't like as complete outlaws but it's a sign of barbarism that just leads to things like rounding up and killing minorities which is the sort of thing we fought a war against people such as Goebbels to stop.
In the past Silicon Valley thrived due to people coming from all over the world to get funding for their designs that ignorant over-conservative people people would not fund in other places. Even going back a bit more "the dread spirit of innovation" was complained about in the Austria-Hungarian empire so Tesla came to the USA to build his alternating current motors. Now? Doesn't look quote so good. We've turned into the Austria-Hungarian empire that Mark Twain reported on as being stagnant instead of the vibrant Roman empire we say we are the heirs to.
It's not about getting funding for way out ideas like Horvath's hydrogen car scam, it's about progression instead of just sitting on assets. As for the bridge, a third year civil engineering or mechanical engineering student can show it can work using mathematics that was taught to such students early in the 20th century. Solid mechanics is difficult but the heavy lifting was done in the 19th century, since then we've mostly just added various tricks to take advantage of computers to get good, fast approximations and handle huge matrices. Something so big as that bridge was never going to be easy to get the workers and materials but there was never any doubt that a suspension bridge would scale that far. It's no space elevator where no material matches the requirement of the maths yet.
So - how many of those contracts in other places are not government related? The others just don't pay anywhere near as much do they? It's an artificially distorted environment and you are IMHO very much out of touch with the commercial environment that is beneath you.
Yes, most definitely in areas where that idiocy has taken hold and we should oppose things like the clauses of the Trans-Pacific-Partnership that aim to spread such idiocy. Patenting a living being just seems kind of sick to me.
Doesn't quantum theory mean that the above can all be true at the same time?
Not as such on a macro scale.
It's turtles all the way down...
"The Science of Discworld" has a good section on the big bang. For those who haven't read it the book is about comparing science with magical thinking by comparing a very fictional world with reality.
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There's nothing valorous about picking on the homeless. Sure, it's fraud, but just treat any panhandling story like a circus act because there's a damned good reason to make it more appealing than accurate.
This sort of thing surfaces again and again, but hope or talk radio drivel means those who dare to question it get ignored over and over again.
They can choose not to do it and the consequence is not being able to send their kids to a government school - no jail, no fine so not forced.
Personally I think these anti-vaxxer idiots should sit down with someone old enough to be their grandparents and ask them about polio.
They want to be special and want to be listened to, so they started their own group to be in charge of so where they can watch people react when they yell "fire" in a crowded theatre.
Considering the "proof" was an outright and obvious fraud by someone who had taken out a patent on a "good" vaccine that's pretty unlikely isn't it?
Do you *really* go for all this fascist interpretations of our founding documents? .
That's the trendy thing to do these days. Can't run a sporting club without a pile of people getting killed as a side effect of mismanagement and lobbying for stupid exemptions? Then claim it's the fault of a founding document and that every single adult male in the country is automatically part of a well regulated militia.
The crazy anti-vaxxer bitch that you Americans exported to Australia is ultra-conservative with extra Ann Rand "bring back the Russian nobility" on top. The cancer spread from one to thousands within five years.
Are you thick? It's an example of a Federal Government project and most of such work is done in Canberra, thus artificially inflating the contract market mainly in Canberra.
It's ripping money off babes in Toytown.
It was a frequently cited difference - whether for propaganda or not it's still supposed to be a mark of civilization.
The "people here who do not understand a topic" is aimed at the poster up above - "Richard_at_work" who got things so stupidly wrong that he suggested it would cost "billions".
For some reason I didn't catch that he was not the one that replied to my comment on his comment.
Sorry - another poster "Richard_at_work" wrote the utterly ridiculous "billions".
So does that Escomarine do it for "billions" as you suggest or a hell of a lot less as your link suggests?
So? People do work with dangerous materials you know.
That's right, the places that are now training engineers about as good as anywhere else. You've also given a link to an example of how dirt cheap it is.
The scrap gets melted first. Say goodbye to anything that's a gas at around 1500C - so no lead, no PCBs, no mercury - they go somewhere but not where the steel goes.
I really do not get why people here who do not understand a topic take it upon themselves to "educate" people with real-world experience in a topic.
There's a flute player in Australia who committed suicide due to the legal fallout from using a riff from a 1932 song with unenforced copyright owned by the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts). The copyright was bought by a record company who took legal action in 2009 against the song with that flute riff recorded in 1981.
IP laws are well named - it's about pissing all over everything.
"No man is above the law and no man is below it".
It's convenient to label some people we don't like as complete outlaws but it's a sign of barbarism that just leads to things like rounding up and killing minorities which is the sort of thing we fought a war against people such as Goebbels to stop.
On the other hand batteries really sucked in 1962.
So you are calling the above poster a liar? Nice.
Do you do children's parties?
You can't just "forget" something so critical and conveniently avoid a very time consuming and expensive step.
In the past Silicon Valley thrived due to people coming from all over the world to get funding for their designs that ignorant over-conservative people people would not fund in other places.
Even going back a bit more "the dread spirit of innovation" was complained about in the Austria-Hungarian empire so Tesla came to the USA to build his alternating current motors.
Now? Doesn't look quote so good. We've turned into the Austria-Hungarian empire that Mark Twain reported on as being stagnant instead of the vibrant Roman empire we say we are the heirs to.
It's not about getting funding for way out ideas like Horvath's hydrogen car scam, it's about progression instead of just sitting on assets.
As for the bridge, a third year civil engineering or mechanical engineering student can show it can work using mathematics that was taught to such students early in the 20th century. Solid mechanics is difficult but the heavy lifting was done in the 19th century, since then we've mostly just added various tricks to take advantage of computers to get good, fast approximations and handle huge matrices. Something so big as that bridge was never going to be easy to get the workers and materials but there was never any doubt that a suspension bridge would scale that far. It's no space elevator where no material matches the requirement of the maths yet.
The only Gods harmed by Darwin are those puny enough to be ordered around by Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart.
So - how many of those contracts in other places are not government related? The others just don't pay anywhere near as much do they?
It's an artificially distorted environment and you are IMHO very much out of touch with the commercial environment that is beneath you.
Yes, most definitely in areas where that idiocy has taken hold and we should oppose things like the clauses of the Trans-Pacific-Partnership that aim to spread such idiocy. Patenting a living being just seems kind of sick to me.
Einstein became pretty famous by suggesting that space is curved, which is why it's come back around.
Not as such on a macro scale.
"The Science of Discworld" has a good section on the big bang. For those who haven't read it the book is about comparing science with magical thinking by comparing a very fictional world with reality.