There might be less parking with robotic cars, though. You could just get out at your destination and instruct your car to go to a nearby parking lot. Zip cars would also have an interesting advantage....
If they knew it all before, they would have done it before
No they wouldn't. They'd have kept their knowledge secret and used it to pass misleading information - just enough true that we'd believe it, just enough false (or through omission) that we make a wrong decision based on it.
Changing things because they're exposed and no longer useful looks an awful lot like changing things because you just discovered you were insecure...
Does inter-library loan no longer work the way it used to - libraries which don't have access to a journal get a photocopy of a specific article requested delivered from libraries that do?
It does not. It comes from the will of the people, the constitution is the compact by which the authority the people have ceded for mutual benefit is spelled out. It is a proxy to measure against that generations of the people have accepted as reasonable enough.
A government that ignores the will of the people is tyranny. Unfortunately, tyranny also has a way to derive its authority - violence.
Obama told us it was intentional in his stump speeches before he even became president. Something about wanting single-payer, but you can't get there overnight. You have to do it in stages.
One of those stages is the collapse of the free-market insurance industry. It is a necessary condition to single payer that there can't be any other payers.
One thing I don't understand is why they didn't make the individual mandate severable. They could have done a lot of damage if that specific part of the law was struck down, but the requirement that insurers accept pre-existing conditions left alone.
This thread is about cancer clusters, so we're talking about shielding depth. This correlates with mass, not distance.
Start point matters when you're talking about "half way". The start point for an organism which requires roughly 15-20 kPa of oxygen, a ready supply of liquid water, and is incapable of moving easily through solid rock is probably somewhat closer to mean sea level.
The postal service is self-supporting, or at least it is supposed to be. There's some shenanigans going on with calculating liabilities like pensions, and their impact on service and subsidies needed.
Also, the postal service has a government enforced monopoly on first class mail. Fedex and UPS are prohibited from attempting to enter that arena even if they want to, so I'm not sure how we can even evaluate the postal service's vaunted efficiency. Packages are one area where there is overlap, and in that area the private companies appear to be doing better, at least in terms of end-user pricing and service levels...
BTW, a first class stamp is currently 46 cents. Where are you getting this 3 / $1 figure from? from?
The real question is why isn't it open source right now. As a taxpayer, I paid for (a part of) this thing. I want to be see the source code for my health care exchange software.
Who benefits from the growth of knowledge itself (other than the benefits society receives from the practical application of that knowledge by engineers)?
Why, the people who sell it, of course. Colleges and Universities. The price of which has been outpacing inflation for quite some time, which suggests that there is quite a healthy amount of profit in there that could easily be spent on growing the business, if someone else weren't already spending on growing the business for them.
1) if they're paying for the entertainment, why not let them do only the parts that are fun for them? 2) boring isn't a relative term. There can be cool stuff and cooler stuff, and the cool stuff that is hard will eventually fall into the latter category anyway, once the cool stuff that is easy has been done already.
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There might be less parking with robotic cars, though. You could just get out at your destination and instruct your car to go to a nearby parking lot. Zip cars would also have an interesting advantage....
If you're passed on the right, you were in the wrong lane....
If they knew it all before, they would have done it before
No they wouldn't. They'd have kept their knowledge secret and used it to pass misleading information - just enough true that we'd believe it, just enough false (or through omission) that we make a wrong decision based on it.
Changing things because they're exposed and no longer useful looks an awful lot like changing things because you just discovered you were insecure...
Who makes the hiring decisions? If it's other academics who also feel the same way about the paid journals.... there's your problem.
Does inter-library loan no longer work the way it used to - libraries which don't have access to a journal get a photocopy of a specific article requested delivered from libraries that do?
The fear is that they are no longer taking efforts to hide the shenanigans because they no longer care whether we find out...
It does not. It comes from the will of the people, the constitution is the compact by which the authority the people have ceded for mutual benefit is spelled out. It is a proxy to measure against that generations of the people have accepted as reasonable enough.
A government that ignores the will of the people is tyranny. Unfortunately, tyranny also has a way to derive its authority - violence.
I'm sure that France was happy when Airbus didn't get the contract....
We are the gray goo...
But.. maybe you don't actually get to pick which two, and they tried anyway.
Obama told us it was intentional in his stump speeches before he even became president. Something about wanting single-payer, but you can't get there overnight. You have to do it in stages.
One of those stages is the collapse of the free-market insurance industry. It is a necessary condition to single payer that there can't be any other payers.
One thing I don't understand is why they didn't make the individual mandate severable. They could have done a lot of damage if that specific part of the law was struck down, but the requirement that insurers accept pre-existing conditions left alone.
There's even scope for handling daily spikes -- prime time traffic spikes across time zones can be balanced in the cloud
If there were enough backbone for that, we wouldn't need CDNs...
If you block DailyMail, a lot of the links on Drudge won't work.....
Media companies like the consortium of companies known as the Motion Pictures Experts Group?
This thread is about cancer clusters, so we're talking about shielding depth. This correlates with mass, not distance.
Start point matters when you're talking about "half way". The start point for an organism which requires roughly 15-20 kPa of oxygen, a ready supply of liquid water, and is incapable of moving easily through solid rock is probably somewhat closer to mean sea level.
Tell that to these guys
The postal service is self-supporting, or at least it is supposed to be. There's some shenanigans going on with calculating liabilities like pensions, and their impact on service and subsidies needed.
Also, the postal service has a government enforced monopoly on first class mail. Fedex and UPS are prohibited from attempting to enter that arena even if they want to, so I'm not sure how we can even evaluate the postal service's vaunted efficiency. Packages are one area where there is overlap, and in that area the private companies appear to be doing better, at least in terms of end-user pricing and service levels...
BTW, a first class stamp is currently 46 cents. Where are you getting this 3 / $1 figure from? from?
It's quite a bit more than half way to space, if you're going atmospheric depth by mass...
They don't do any more damage than the name-calling stereotypers.
ISPs like Comcast? Cox? TimeWarner?
Which ISPs have been making this claim?
The real question is why isn't it open source right now. As a taxpayer, I paid for (a part of) this thing. I want to be see the source code for my health care exchange software.
Maybe we can FOIA it?
Who benefits from the growth of knowledge itself (other than the benefits society receives from the practical application of that knowledge by engineers)?
Why, the people who sell it, of course. Colleges and Universities. The price of which has been outpacing inflation for quite some time, which suggests that there is quite a healthy amount of profit in there that could easily be spent on growing the business, if someone else weren't already spending on growing the business for them.
1) if they're paying for the entertainment, why not let them do only the parts that are fun for them?
2) boring isn't a relative term. There can be cool stuff and cooler stuff, and the cool stuff that is hard will eventually fall into the latter category anyway, once the cool stuff that is easy has been done already.
What's the healthy balance between good and evil? Virtue and corruption? Slavery and liberty?
Q.E.D.