Doubt it. It probably varies by jurisdiction, but here (northern CA) you can get in trouble for parking on the street with out of date registration tags. Not sure how that translates to parking garages...
Are subscribers of smaller ISPs — who must lease their lines from the larger ones such as Bell — relatively protected from such invasions of privacy due to some sort of technical difficulty in determining the names of subscribers? (Please excuse my technical ignorance)."
Reminds me of Winston Churchill: "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Graphs like that one are completely worthless because they don't account for inflation. Assuming an optimistic inflation of 2% annual, that chart would actually prove you wrong.
You can still say you have pure capitalism with basic laws. For example, I can't sell something that I don't own. That is illegal. That law does not interfere with pure capitalism. Truth in advertising laws (sometimes) don't interfere with pure capitalism. Anti-fraud laws (typically) don't interfere with pure capitalism.
Pure capitalism amounts to: You've got stuff; I want stuff; You want to sell me stuff; I want to buy stuff; We work something out, and the government stays out of it. As long as that dynamic is preserved unfettered, you still have pure capitalism.
Now, I'm not arguing that we actually have pure capitalism, nor that we should in every industry. I am arguing that capitalism isn't the boogeyman that certain agendas make it out to be.
Capitalism, or free market? Not exactly the same thing.
Capitalism.
I get that the medical industry cannot be a true free market. I also get that it cannot be healthy in the quagmire of regulation and greed that we find it.
You also have a third party involved which is the doctor.
And a fourth and fifth and sixth party (hospital, insurance, pharmaceutical co / medical hardware, etc). The doctor is rarely the real problem in medical costs.
"General unchecked avarice" is pretty much a perfect definition of capitalism.
You sound somewhat intelligent (at least). I hope you're just being cynical, and haven't drunk the cool aid. Despite what liberal ideologues would have you believe, there is a world of difference between capitalism, and anarchy.
The only thing that would hold that avarice in check is a well-informed market that has a reasonable understanding of the products in the market, knows how to estimate things like cost to produce and profit margins, and actually cares enough to walk away...Such a market might have existed once before the Industrial and Information Ages, but not since then.
I agree that it would help, but I'm not convinced that it would be sufficient. If we knew that each and every producer of Widget X was ripping us off, and by how much, we wouldn't be able to walk away. If it's electronics, we'd become information hermits. If it's transportation, we'd not be able to get to work and we'd lose our jobs. If it's healthcare, we'd die.
Knowledge driven balanced capitalism relies on the availability of competition. Natural monopolies and inherent high barriers-of-entry prevent this without malice, per se. Some of the highest costs of the medical industry fall into this category. (not hearing aids, granted)
No, what we truly need is the government to work for the people, and not those with the deepest pockets. Regulation should provide meaningful protection to the public (either to their health or their wallets), and not provide artificial barriers-to-entry or cost of doing business. Yeah, I know. I can dream, at least.
You should be upset that your teachers are willing to cater to the dirty tactics of the publishing industry. You're not their real customer, after all...
On the flip side of the coin, there are lots of people out there who can't "make [their] mortgage payment" even if they aren't being gouged because they haven't learned to manage their money. Wanting something to be cheaper so they can get by is a frequent invalid excuse of the spendthrift.
Actual capitalism is fine in medicine. Fraud, bribery, corrupt regulation, and general unchecked avarice drive up prices. We need fewer medical regulations, and more white collar crimes police units.
Where capitalism has absolutely no place is insurance. Private insurance, yes; for profit insurance, are you @#$% kidding?!?
You're comparing apples and oranges. Of course hi resolution jpegs are going to be big. Crummy quality jpegs (on par with a fax) are going to be unbelievably smaller. That was the parent's point, of course.
If you're sending 10MB+ images, you're doing it wrong.
Now it is true that you can never prove axioms (nor prove a negative), and thus never prove a model to be true from within the same system. But I see no reason why the true rules of the system could not be accurately described. They just can't be proven.
Oh bother. The moon isn't geosynchronous. You're going to have a base station that follows the moon around? Crossing the planet apx once every day, including oceans and continents?
Either the cable would snap, or it would become the worst game of tetherball ever!
As a rule, use no more deadly a weapon than your opponent. For an unarmed opponent, a baton is acceptable in self-defense, but not a knife, as an unarmed opponent is unlikely to kill, as is a knife.
BS
An unarmed opponent is less likely to kill you accidentally than a knife wielder. If they want to kill you, though, you're just as dead. Any time you legitimately fear serious bodily injury, you may wind up dead. Either run or fight for your life using any tool at your disposal. Let the lawyers sort it out later.
What do you do when it fails? Can you replace it for less than $10?
Obviously not. The replacement cost seems be closer to the cost of the full heat sink. If prices drop to realistic rates, it will probably be similar to today's after-market heatsinks (~ $30 - $50), maybe a little more. The motor will need to be more sophisticated (high RPM), but it won't need heat pipes.
You're right that it causes an issue, but a very minor one. Most heatsinks sold today have a built-in fan which is not designed to be replaceable.
As an aside, this white paper is old. It dates to Jan 2010. have there been any recent developments?
I respectfully, but fervently disagree. I've seen intersections that would work most efficiently (in terms of traffic flow) if they were two-way stops (or one-way stops at a T intersection). The intersections had been all-way stops, quite erroneously, and they "solved" the flow problem by installing roundabouts. Now, whenever approaching the roundabout, you still must stop to avoid an accident because you have no idea where the car (singular) in the circle is going to get off. It could perhaps be argued that the circles in the series are too small for the speed limit, but they already take up more real-estate than the stop-intersection did.
Yeah, well, it prevents speeding alright. You shouldn't need to crank the steering wheel hard right-left-right while driving slow down a side street. It's just inane. You know what they did on my street to prevent speeding? They put in a stop sign. It works better than the roundabout in question because the daredevils don't sufficiently slow down there. They're too busy being full of themselves, watching the road closely to make the challenging corners, not paying any attention to pedestrians, and paying almost no attention to other vehicles. It just doesn't fit the design goal.
The real problem with traffic lights (where power is reliable) only comes about due to lack of proper sensors. Seriously, they only have sensors that detect stopped vehicles? Really? They can't embed road sensors further back that detect approaching traffic? They can't detect vehicles leaving an intersection and predict when they might reach the next one? Do they really only pay attention to a sensor when the light is red in that direction? Are we in the '80s or something?
Roundabouts are a poor man's solution to the problem. They work better than stop signs, some of the time. Sometimes they are installed where it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, like a quiet residential street (tiny-tiny thing, you have to come to a stop just to make the corner into the circle). The only reason they're becoming so common is because they are the current fashion. Remember all that orange upholstery and carpet? It was popular once too. Decades from now we're going to look back and say: "What idiot made that decision? He sure got around!"
That's exactly what one would expect in a hoax. Carbon fiber is a wonderful material, and had thus become a buzzword for "cool high tech" and "new capabilities". And the impossible is covered with a custom invention, never before seen, with fresh patents.
If something this cool actually existed, there'd be a video of it on Youtube. For that matter, there'd be a video of it on the company's website, and the company would actually have a website.
This is caused by the separation of investment, ownership, and accountability. A CEO (etc) shouldn't be able to ruin someone else's investment and make out like a bandit.
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Doubt it. It probably varies by jurisdiction, but here (northern CA) you can get in trouble for parking on the street with out of date registration tags. Not sure how that translates to parking garages...
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's a culture problem reinforced by ethnic identity politics. From BOTH sides of the equation.
Are subscribers of smaller ISPs — who must lease their lines from the larger ones such as Bell — relatively protected from such invasions of privacy due to some sort of technical difficulty in determining the names of subscribers? (Please excuse my technical ignorance)."
Short answer: no
Longer answer: not likely
Reminds me of Winston Churchill: "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Same for capitalism, and for similar reasons.
Inflation! Inflation! Inflation!
Graphs like that one are completely worthless because they don't account for inflation. Assuming an optimistic inflation of 2% annual, that chart would actually prove you wrong.
I hope he reads your first sentence, at least.
Seriously, though, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.
You can still say you have pure capitalism with basic laws. For example, I can't sell something that I don't own. That is illegal. That law does not interfere with pure capitalism. Truth in advertising laws (sometimes) don't interfere with pure capitalism. Anti-fraud laws (typically) don't interfere with pure capitalism.
Pure capitalism amounts to: You've got stuff; I want stuff; You want to sell me stuff; I want to buy stuff; We work something out, and the government stays out of it. As long as that dynamic is preserved unfettered, you still have pure capitalism.
Now, I'm not arguing that we actually have pure capitalism, nor that we should in every industry. I am arguing that capitalism isn't the boogeyman that certain agendas make it out to be.
FEWER... FEWER... Why does everyone here assume I meant NONE?!?! ARE YOU BLIND? Are the words similar in braille or something?
Anyone arguing for no medical regulation is and idiot. I, sir, have my weak points, but I am not an idiot.
Where the @#$% did you get "regulation-free"?
(Think about it for at least 60 seconds before you respond.)
Capitalism, or free market? Not exactly the same thing.
Capitalism.
I get that the medical industry cannot be a true free market. I also get that it cannot be healthy in the quagmire of regulation and greed that we find it.
You also have a third party involved which is the doctor.
And a fourth and fifth and sixth party (hospital, insurance, pharmaceutical co / medical hardware, etc). The doctor is rarely the real problem in medical costs.
"General unchecked avarice" is pretty much a perfect definition of capitalism.
You sound somewhat intelligent (at least). I hope you're just being cynical, and haven't drunk the cool aid. Despite what liberal ideologues would have you believe, there is a world of difference between capitalism, and anarchy.
The only thing that would hold that avarice in check is a well-informed market that has a reasonable understanding of the products in the market, knows how to estimate things like cost to produce and profit margins, and actually cares enough to walk away ...Such a market might have existed once before the Industrial and Information Ages, but not since then.
I agree that it would help, but I'm not convinced that it would be sufficient. If we knew that each and every producer of Widget X was ripping us off, and by how much, we wouldn't be able to walk away. If it's electronics, we'd become information hermits. If it's transportation, we'd not be able to get to work and we'd lose our jobs. If it's healthcare, we'd die.
Knowledge driven balanced capitalism relies on the availability of competition. Natural monopolies and inherent high barriers-of-entry prevent this without malice, per se. Some of the highest costs of the medical industry fall into this category. (not hearing aids, granted)
No, what we truly need is the government to work for the people, and not those with the deepest pockets. Regulation should provide meaningful protection to the public (either to their health or their wallets), and not provide artificial barriers-to-entry or cost of doing business. Yeah, I know. I can dream, at least.
You should be upset that your teachers are willing to cater to the dirty tactics of the publishing industry. You're not their real customer, after all...
On the flip side of the coin, there are lots of people out there who can't "make [their] mortgage payment" even if they aren't being gouged because they haven't learned to manage their money. Wanting something to be cheaper so they can get by is a frequent invalid excuse of the spendthrift.
Actual capitalism is fine in medicine. Fraud, bribery, corrupt regulation, and general unchecked avarice drive up prices. We need fewer medical regulations, and more white collar crimes police units.
Where capitalism has absolutely no place is insurance. Private insurance, yes; for profit insurance, are you @#$% kidding?!?
At what DPI and compression quality?
You're comparing apples and oranges. Of course hi resolution jpegs are going to be big. Crummy quality jpegs (on par with a fax) are going to be unbelievably smaller. That was the parent's point, of course.
If you're sending 10MB+ images, you're doing it wrong.
How a system works can't be told from the inside of the same system.
Oh, and how is that? I'd imagine it would be something along these lines: http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
Now it is true that you can never prove axioms (nor prove a negative), and thus never prove a model to be true from within the same system. But I see no reason why the true rules of the system could not be accurately described. They just can't be proven.
http://xkcd.com/435/
Oh bother. The moon isn't geosynchronous. You're going to have a base station that follows the moon around? Crossing the planet apx once every day, including oceans and continents?
Either the cable would snap, or it would become the worst game of tetherball ever!
As a rule, use no more deadly a weapon than your opponent. For an unarmed opponent, a baton is acceptable in self-defense, but not a knife, as an unarmed opponent is unlikely to kill, as is a knife.
BS
An unarmed opponent is less likely to kill you accidentally than a knife wielder. If they want to kill you, though, you're just as dead. Any time you legitimately fear serious bodily injury, you may wind up dead. Either run or fight for your life using any tool at your disposal. Let the lawyers sort it out later.
What do you do when it fails? Can you replace it for less than $10?
Obviously not. The replacement cost seems be closer to the cost of the full heat sink. If prices drop to realistic rates, it will probably be similar to today's after-market heatsinks (~ $30 - $50), maybe a little more. The motor will need to be more sophisticated (high RPM), but it won't need heat pipes.
You're right that it causes an issue, but a very minor one. Most heatsinks sold today have a built-in fan which is not designed to be replaceable.
As an aside, this white paper is old. It dates to Jan 2010. have there been any recent developments?
(ps hear != here)
Are you kidding? I'm sure they'd rather be called "crewman" than "it".
I respectfully, but fervently disagree. I've seen intersections that would work most efficiently (in terms of traffic flow) if they were two-way stops (or one-way stops at a T intersection). The intersections had been all-way stops, quite erroneously, and they "solved" the flow problem by installing roundabouts. Now, whenever approaching the roundabout, you still must stop to avoid an accident because you have no idea where the car (singular) in the circle is going to get off. It could perhaps be argued that the circles in the series are too small for the speed limit, but they already take up more real-estate than the stop-intersection did.
Yeah, well, it prevents speeding alright. You shouldn't need to crank the steering wheel hard right-left-right while driving slow down a side street. It's just inane. You know what they did on my street to prevent speeding? They put in a stop sign. It works better than the roundabout in question because the daredevils don't sufficiently slow down there. They're too busy being full of themselves, watching the road closely to make the challenging corners, not paying any attention to pedestrians, and paying almost no attention to other vehicles. It just doesn't fit the design goal.
The real problem with traffic lights (where power is reliable) only comes about due to lack of proper sensors. Seriously, they only have sensors that detect stopped vehicles? Really? They can't embed road sensors further back that detect approaching traffic? They can't detect vehicles leaving an intersection and predict when they might reach the next one? Do they really only pay attention to a sensor when the light is red in that direction? Are we in the '80s or something?
Roundabouts are a poor man's solution to the problem. They work better than stop signs, some of the time. Sometimes they are installed where it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, like a quiet residential street (tiny-tiny thing, you have to come to a stop just to make the corner into the circle). The only reason they're becoming so common is because they are the current fashion. Remember all that orange upholstery and carpet? It was popular once too. Decades from now we're going to look back and say: "What idiot made that decision? He sure got around!"
That's exactly what one would expect in a hoax. Carbon fiber is a wonderful material, and had thus become a buzzword for "cool high tech" and "new capabilities". And the impossible is covered with a custom invention, never before seen, with fresh patents.
If something this cool actually existed, there'd be a video of it on Youtube. For that matter, there'd be a video of it on the company's website, and the company would actually have a website.
I second. Without a video, I strongly suspect it's some kind of hoax. (If it sounds too good to be true and then keeps going...)
No, that causes numerous other problems.
This is caused by the separation of investment, ownership, and accountability. A CEO (etc) shouldn't be able to ruin someone else's investment and make out like a bandit.