And you're assuming in your calculations the cameras would have saved all 200 of the people who get backed over every year, which is almost certainly not true.
Conservatives don't have a problem with CFLs. We just don't want to be forced to use them. As long as natural gas vehicles are optional we won't have a problem.
Just because they wanted things one way in the past doesn't mean they can't want something else now. Apple doesn't have any use for that kind of money. How many billions do you really need to develop new products?
YouTube doesn't have to accuse anyone of anything nefarious to include ads. It's their site. They can just... do it. So I would be very surprised if that's what is happening here. More likely the automated process they're using to match music on videos isn't very discriminating, and the "copyright holder" is just lying about having reviewed the video.
There are diminishing returns on research money, as there are only so many places to spend that money. Throwing a whole bunch extra at a problem like that usually just creates bureaucracies that exist solely to siphon up extra money. I guarantee you they would not get the money back in months. They would probably never get it back at all.
Look, I know investors _REALLY_ want a dividend payout because it amounts to free cash (and lately the trend is "Apple, you have tons of cash - GIVE ME SOME!!") but, face facts people, the company has a history of not paying dividends, they don't feel it's a good use of their money, and they feel there are better ways to invest the money. Just accept it and move on.
There's no reason for the owners of the company to "just accept" anything. Remember, the board works for the shareholders, and Time Cook works for the board. In the end this is a decision the shareholders make collectively.
The article also advocates a move to all-digital payment/transfers by pointing out both forms are only representations of value and noting it would cripple criminal operations such as drug cartels, human traffickers, and so forth.
Bullshit. Money laundering became a crime in the US over 25 years ago as an anti-drug strategy. Clearly it didn't work, since drugs are cheaper today than they were back then, but every time you make a cash transaction over a few thousand dollars (can be as little as $2000, depending on the transaction type) a notice goes off to the government. From what I can see the net effect is if the feds want you they can bust you for spitting on the sidewalk then force you to plea bargain by threatening a 300 years sentence on financial crimes.
And it's hard to imagine what Washington couldn't know about you if every single transaction you made landed in some government database. Not that it will make any difference to the criminals - drug traffickers and pimps (and their customers) will start using euros, yen, pesos, or drugs as mediums of exchange. Or gold, or bearer bonds. Whatever.
Maybe I'm not your standard issue human, but I sincerely hope I don't live anywhere close to 114.
It's not that you don't want to live to be 114, it's that you don't want the health problems associated with such an advanced age. Most of the people reading this site won't be 114 for 70 or 80 years, and a lot of medical advances can happen in that time period. Between replacement parts and cybernetics, you may be in better shape at 114 than you are today.
It's already happening. I have Comcast. They charge the same for basic cable + internet as they do for internet alone, so I have basic cable which I never watch. Everything I do watch is streamed over my Roku. The "high" speed internet, as you call it, is perfectly adequate for this purpose.
That's not going to work for sports fans, but most people don't watch sports.
One of the lessons of Fukushima should be that you don't want to store decades worth of spent rods on site. If they had actually lost control of the reactors, the radiation would have forced everyone away from the site. They would have lost control of the short term spent fuel pools above the reactors in pretty short order, and they would also have eventually lost control of the long term storage pool, which contains a hell of a lot of spent fuel.
I wouldn't mind seeing spent fuel moved away from reactor sites in the US, on the theory that "the worst that can happen" would end up being a little less "worst".
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."
Someone in my family works in public safety. His city got brand new digital radios a few years back, and department policy is they get used for all official communications, since everything is recorded. But they do end up using their cell phones for official business. Not to hide things from the public, though. The problem is they can't talk to HQ on the new radios because the coverage is too spotty - it's the only way they have to communicate in certain parts of the city.
Nobody has air-to-air drones yet. You can't buy what isn't available, and it's going to be at least 15 years or so before anybody has one in production.
Indian arms manufacturers are notoriously corrupt and inefficient. They tried to create a domestic fighter, but the problem is if the gap between your fighters and the competition is wide enough, you may as well not have any at all. India can't afford to do what China is doing, which is to create a world-class fighter industry by taking the long view and realizing their stuff won't be competitive for a decade or two.
After all the DRM suffering I went through on the last Ubisoft game (Silent Hunter 5) I swore to myself I'd only play pirated versions of Ubi games in the future.
If you can get to Wickard v. Filburn, you can get to Gonzales v. Raich. And as a practical matter, if the court had ruled against the government it would have thrown all federal drug laws (and a whole bunch of other laws) into question. The Supreme Court doesn't make big changes like that all at once.
On the other hand, it's clear to everyone and his dog that growing pot for your own use isn't interstate commerce.
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And you're assuming in your calculations the cameras would have saved all 200 of the people who get backed over every year, which is almost certainly not true.
The whole idea is ill-conceived.
Conservatives don't have a problem with CFLs. We just don't want to be forced to use them. As long as natural gas vehicles are optional we won't have a problem.
Just because they wanted things one way in the past doesn't mean they can't want something else now. Apple doesn't have any use for that kind of money. How many billions do you really need to develop new products?
YouTube doesn't have to accuse anyone of anything nefarious to include ads. It's their site. They can just... do it. So I would be very surprised if that's what is happening here. More likely the automated process they're using to match music on videos isn't very discriminating, and the "copyright holder" is just lying about having reviewed the video.
There are diminishing returns on research money, as there are only so many places to spend that money. Throwing a whole bunch extra at a problem like that usually just creates bureaucracies that exist solely to siphon up extra money. I guarantee you they would not get the money back in months. They would probably never get it back at all.
There's no reason for the owners of the company to "just accept" anything. Remember, the board works for the shareholders, and Time Cook works for the board. In the end this is a decision the shareholders make collectively.
The article also advocates a move to all-digital payment/transfers by pointing out both forms are only representations of value and noting it would cripple criminal operations such as drug cartels, human traffickers, and so forth.
Bullshit. Money laundering became a crime in the US over 25 years ago as an anti-drug strategy. Clearly it didn't work, since drugs are cheaper today than they were back then, but every time you make a cash transaction over a few thousand dollars (can be as little as $2000, depending on the transaction type) a notice goes off to the government. From what I can see the net effect is if the feds want you they can bust you for spitting on the sidewalk then force you to plea bargain by threatening a 300 years sentence on financial crimes.
And it's hard to imagine what Washington couldn't know about you if every single transaction you made landed in some government database. Not that it will make any difference to the criminals - drug traffickers and pimps (and their customers) will start using euros, yen, pesos, or drugs as mediums of exchange. Or gold, or bearer bonds. Whatever.
Maybe I'm not your standard issue human, but I sincerely hope I don't live anywhere close to 114.
It's not that you don't want to live to be 114, it's that you don't want the health problems associated with such an advanced age. Most of the people reading this site won't be 114 for 70 or 80 years, and a lot of medical advances can happen in that time period. Between replacement parts and cybernetics, you may be in better shape at 114 than you are today.
It's already happening. I have Comcast. They charge the same for basic cable + internet as they do for internet alone, so I have basic cable which I never watch. Everything I do watch is streamed over my Roku. The "high" speed internet, as you call it, is perfectly adequate for this purpose.
That's not going to work for sports fans, but most people don't watch sports.
One of the lessons of Fukushima should be that you don't want to store decades worth of spent rods on site. If they had actually lost control of the reactors, the radiation would have forced everyone away from the site. They would have lost control of the short term spent fuel pools above the reactors in pretty short order, and they would also have eventually lost control of the long term storage pool, which contains a hell of a lot of spent fuel.
I wouldn't mind seeing spent fuel moved away from reactor sites in the US, on the theory that "the worst that can happen" would end up being a little less "worst".
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."
Someone in my family works in public safety. His city got brand new digital radios a few years back, and department policy is they get used for all official communications, since everything is recorded. But they do end up using their cell phones for official business. Not to hide things from the public, though. The problem is they can't talk to HQ on the new radios because the coverage is too spotty - it's the only way they have to communicate in certain parts of the city.
The radio system provider charged a mint, too.
And yet press shield laws have been written to exclude people who don't work for newspapers or electronic media.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of litigious bastards.
With this book Bacigalupi managed to rekindle my ten-years-dorman love for science fiction. Rich characters and wonderful prose.
I still don't see the point of reviewing it now, though. By this time everyone interested in reading it has probably already read it.
I'm not sure what you're asking. The most efficient way to control the air is from the air.
Nobody has air-to-air drones yet. You can't buy what isn't available, and it's going to be at least 15 years or so before anybody has one in production.
Those aren't the only threats to India.
Yes. Asymetric threats aren't in the same class as thousands of tanks pouring over your border. That's an existential threat.
Indian arms manufacturers are notoriously corrupt and inefficient. They tried to create a domestic fighter, but the problem is if the gap between your fighters and the competition is wide enough, you may as well not have any at all. India can't afford to do what China is doing, which is to create a world-class fighter industry by taking the long view and realizing their stuff won't be competitive for a decade or two.
I always translate that as "there's a number involved here, but we have no idea what it could be".
I guess there are lots of ways to get people laughing at you, which is what would happen if you tried to institute this at my workplace.
She can get a job as a heavy at Drax Industries.
After all the DRM suffering I went through on the last Ubisoft game (Silent Hunter 5) I swore to myself I'd only play pirated versions of Ubi games in the future.
If you can get to Wickard v. Filburn, you can get to Gonzales v. Raich. And as a practical matter, if the court had ruled against the government it would have thrown all federal drug laws (and a whole bunch of other laws) into question. The Supreme Court doesn't make big changes like that all at once.
On the other hand, it's clear to everyone and his dog that growing pot for your own use isn't interstate commerce.