And they've missed the point. GDP is still growing, but the percentage of GDP growth that is passed to workers is _shrinking_. Instead, more and more of the growth goes to the capital owners. Some of that might be attributable to outsourcing, but IT is definitely one of the reasons.
Nope. Computer repairmen are already basically a dead-end career. It's often cheaper to buy a new computer than to pay a decent fee to a repairman. And it's only going to get worse.
If robots can efficiently make robots then it'll probably be cheaper to simply replace broken ones. Except maybe for very large or complex industrial robots - but you don't need a lot of workers to do that.
And the old generation just constantly bitches at these new-fangled 'computers', 'bookfaces' and all that oranges^H apples.
In reality, a new equilibrium is found: 3D works great for animated films (they are computer-rendered anyway) and some high-profile pictures ("Cirque du Soleil", "The Hobbit", etc.). Most other films are better off in 2D.
"You can also get 3D prescription lenses, which, if your eyesight is bad enough you need correction in a movie theater in the first place, you are likely already carrying around a second pair of corrective lenses, since polarized sunglasses will back out one or both eyse when using an LCD screen at work, so what's yet another pair."
Polarized glasses work fine with Real3D system which uses frequency-based 3D.
At that point they could have blockaded off Japanese islands and clean them up one by one.
I actually think that using the nuclear bombs on Japan at that point was justifiable, but still wrong. A demonstration of nuclear capability on uninhabited territory would have probably achieved much the same results.
"Even if Russia would have attacked with the atomic bombing they would be quite busy on the mainland for many more months."
Not really. The USSR had defeated the Kwantung army (with 600000 vs 12000 dead in favor of the USSR) a couple of days after the first bombing, so militarily Japan had nothing to wage a serious war with.
Botulinum bacteria are obligate anaerobic, they can't survive in oxygen atmosphere. So you're safe with bread. And C. botulinum _spores_ are ubiquitous, so there's no sense in trying to prevent those.
"The junkyards are full of disposable cars and airplanes. Like the disposable razor, they last for a while then stop being useful."
No, cars are not disposable - almost all cars work for more than 10 years (average age of a car in the US is 8.5 years). And planes most _definitely_ are not disposable - they can easily have 30-40 years of service. Most rocket components, on the other hand, are used exactly once.
Rockets can't be cheap. They are not reusable (you can try to reuse certain parts, but you're going to disassemble and reassemble them in any case) and that is ALWAYS going to put a high lower limit for their price. In the best case, you'll be paying millions of dollars for person to get to a lower orbit.
Skylon spaceplanes can, in theory, lower that to perhaps several tens of thousands dollars. Definitely to the level of hundreds of thousands.
"even if it means cutting down/neutering those who actually are better in some context for the sake of feelings/'community cohesion' and the court of oprahtic opinion"
Isn't that a part of Texas GOP strategy? Like killing all the independent thinkers, or something?
" The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. "
Bullshit. In reality average lifespan in the *US* is calculated WITHOUT taking child mortality into account.
"There is a major difference between political anarchy and chaos. In political anarchy you still have order, but instead of a central government controlling everything it's done with voluntary contracts at the individual level. "
There is no difference. In a real anarchy you pay for 'protection' to your local gang, which replace the government quite quickly.
HiDpi images are images with twice the resolution of normal ones, there's nothing magical in them. Apple added a custom CSS selector for them, so browsers that support 'retina' displays could automatically fetch hi-res pictures instead of normal ones.
Sure, your browser should support getting HiDpi images. Chrome, Safari support it out-of-box on Windows and Mac. Firefox doesn't, but there's a patched version with Retina support.
There's an unofficial patch for Firefox for Retina support (I'm using it right now to write this message). It works just fine, and it also is going to be integrated into F18.
Bullshit. Interracial differences are smaller than intra-racial differences. And most certainly, there's no such thing as "German teeth in an Irish mouth" - the development of teeth and jaw is governed by a single complex self-regulating network of genes. There's no single "German teeth" gene.
I've studied that period in details. You're confusing several issues.
1) Stagflation in part happened _because_ of wage controls. They forced employers to rise wages when there were no real reason for it. That caused a self-defeating loop, but wages indeed still rose more or less in sync with inflation.
2) During stagflation economy growth was weak because of real resource constraints.
3) By 80-s that constraints were gone and economy was growing robustly, even after correction for inflation.
4) In this situation breaking a wage-inflation loop was a right decision and it was implemented flawlessly.
Stagflation is not a refutation that a sustained high inflation requires wage increases. Rather it's a refutation that it's impossible to have inflation with weak growth.
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And they've missed the point. GDP is still growing, but the percentage of GDP growth that is passed to workers is _shrinking_. Instead, more and more of the growth goes to the capital owners. Some of that might be attributable to outsourcing, but IT is definitely one of the reasons.
Nope. Computer repairmen are already basically a dead-end career. It's often cheaper to buy a new computer than to pay a decent fee to a repairman. And it's only going to get worse. If robots can efficiently make robots then it'll probably be cheaper to simply replace broken ones. Except maybe for very large or complex industrial robots - but you don't need a lot of workers to do that.
Sorry, it's called Dolby 3D: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_3D - it really is MUCH better than polarization-based 3D.
And the old generation just constantly bitches at these new-fangled 'computers', 'bookfaces' and all that oranges^H apples.
In reality, a new equilibrium is found: 3D works great for animated films (they are computer-rendered anyway) and some high-profile pictures ("Cirque du Soleil", "The Hobbit", etc.). Most other films are better off in 2D.
"You can also get 3D prescription lenses, which, if your eyesight is bad enough you need correction in a movie theater in the first place, you are likely already carrying around a second pair of corrective lenses, since polarized sunglasses will back out one or both eyse when using an LCD screen at work, so what's yet another pair."
Polarized glasses work fine with Real3D system which uses frequency-based 3D.
At that point they could have blockaded off Japanese islands and clean them up one by one.
I actually think that using the nuclear bombs on Japan at that point was justifiable, but still wrong. A demonstration of nuclear capability on uninhabited territory would have probably achieved much the same results.
"Even if Russia would have attacked with the atomic bombing they would be quite busy on the mainland for many more months."
Not really. The USSR had defeated the Kwantung army (with 600000 vs 12000 dead in favor of the USSR) a couple of days after the first bombing, so militarily Japan had nothing to wage a serious war with.
Canning is not so complex. Most foods are botulism-safe, anyway, because of high acidity or salinity. There are other dangers, though.
BTW, I also make my own mustard. However, I prefer it exactly _because_ I like it bitter. Ham hamburger with bitter mustard... mmm....
Botulinum bacteria are obligate anaerobic, they can't survive in oxygen atmosphere. So you're safe with bread. And C. botulinum _spores_ are ubiquitous, so there's no sense in trying to prevent those.
It would work with any script that has '/' and '\' symbols separated by 1 code point.
So are they going to PAY for the service? The real price, not the subsidized cost. No?
Thought so.
"The junkyards are full of disposable cars and airplanes. Like the disposable razor, they last for a while then stop being useful."
No, cars are not disposable - almost all cars work for more than 10 years (average age of a car in the US is 8.5 years). And planes most _definitely_ are not disposable - they can easily have 30-40 years of service. Most rocket components, on the other hand, are used exactly once.
How's that going for disposable cars and airplanes?
Things are disposable _because_ they can be made very cheaply. Not the other way, generally.
I was actually wrong. However, US lags quite a lot in life expectancy for 5 and 10 year old which takes child mortality into account.
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/health/life-expectancy.aspx
Wrong!
Rockets can't be cheap. They are not reusable (you can try to reuse certain parts, but you're going to disassemble and reassemble them in any case) and that is ALWAYS going to put a high lower limit for their price. In the best case, you'll be paying millions of dollars for person to get to a lower orbit.
Skylon spaceplanes can, in theory, lower that to perhaps several tens of thousands dollars. Definitely to the level of hundreds of thousands.
"even if it means cutting down/neutering those who actually are better in some context for the sake of feelings/'community cohesion' and the court of oprahtic opinion"
Isn't that a part of Texas GOP strategy? Like killing all the independent thinkers, or something?
" The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. "
Bullshit. In reality average lifespan in the *US* is calculated WITHOUT taking child mortality into account.
"There is a major difference between political anarchy and chaos. In political anarchy you still have order, but instead of a central government controlling everything it's done with voluntary contracts at the individual level. "
There is no difference. In a real anarchy you pay for 'protection' to your local gang, which replace the government quite quickly.
"Methinks that in a decade or two some natural process"
Fairy dust? Maybe unicorn farts?
HiDpi images are images with twice the resolution of normal ones, there's nothing magical in them. Apple added a custom CSS selector for them, so browsers that support 'retina' displays could automatically fetch hi-res pictures instead of normal ones.
Sure, your browser should support getting HiDpi images. Chrome, Safari support it out-of-box on Windows and Mac. Firefox doesn't, but there's a patched version with Retina support.
There's an unofficial patch for Firefox for Retina support (I'm using it right now to write this message). It works just fine, and it also is going to be integrated into F18.
Quite a lot of sites support the full 'retina' resolution. For example, Google Maps or Picassa Web.
Bullshit. Interracial differences are smaller than intra-racial differences. And most certainly, there's no such thing as "German teeth in an Irish mouth" - the development of teeth and jaw is governed by a single complex self-regulating network of genes. There's no single "German teeth" gene.
I've studied that period in details. You're confusing several issues.
1) Stagflation in part happened _because_ of wage controls. They forced employers to rise wages when there were no real reason for it. That caused a self-defeating loop, but wages indeed still rose more or less in sync with inflation.
2) During stagflation economy growth was weak because of real resource constraints.
3) By 80-s that constraints were gone and economy was growing robustly, even after correction for inflation.
4) In this situation breaking a wage-inflation loop was a right decision and it was implemented flawlessly.
Stagflation is not a refutation that a sustained high inflation requires wage increases. Rather it's a refutation that it's impossible to have inflation with weak growth.